Now that the sod has been stripped off the driving range tee, we spent most of Thursday taking off the “mat” and trenched for the irrigation. Mat is a layer of combined thatch and soil that develops underneath the turf and at times acts as a barrier for fertilizer and water, and as such, limits root growth. To remove the mat, we tilled it to a 3” depth to break it up, and then loaded it into the dump truck to take to our composting site. Meanwhile, another crew dug the trenches for irrigation pipe and wire. We hand dug because we are not quite sure what is under the tee – electricity, drains, etc – and we didn’t want to trench through anything that could compromise someone’s safety, or disable a pre existing service.
On Friday we began to do a rough grade. The tee actually sloped up from the back to the front an average of 15 inches! Whether you knew it or not, you were practicing an uphill lie! We are pushing this extra 15 inches of soil to the front and using it to extend the tee an extra twenty feet! This will add 3,500 square feet of teeing space!
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| The tee after tilling with irrigation work in the foreground. |
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| Beginning the rough grade, extending the tee 20 feet. |
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| New irrigation piping along the back of the tee. |
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| One of eight new heads installed, along with a quick coupler valve. |
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