Before we opened up the golf course we had to install a drain down the middle of #9 fairway to contol the run off from the tee area as the soil in the upper portion of this hole is pretty bad and doesn't allow that much water to penetrate the surface. The drain has worked pretty well for the better part of two years but this past summer we started to notice an area just past the fairway bunker that was a little more sturated than it had been in the past. Then, after the rain this last weekend we noticed an area in the middle of the fairway that had a lot of sand coming to the surface. So this past week we decided to get to the "root" of the problem and find out what was going on with our drain. Come to find out it really was roots that were causing the problems. The piture below is a picture of all of the roots that were pulled out of the 4" drain line. Hopefully we will get some more rain soon to test out the drain now that it is cleaned out.
