Collar addition to the putting green and more!

The last couple weeks have been extremely busy here at the parkway.  The weather has been absolutely great for growing grass, as you all know.   I certainly hear about the rough every day.  The good news is the grass has begun to slow down and the mowers are getting caught up with the grass and the complaints seem to be slowing down. 

We are very fortunate to have great staff working here at the parkway.  There are people here that are willing to go the extra mile so to speak.  Luckily the students in the maintenance department are some of these employees.  But, of course they have good examples to follow like Ruth, Don, Tyler, Richard, and Keith.  Without staff like this, we would not be able to pull of some of the crazy ideas that I come up with.  Not only do they get the tasks done, they also keep the course in great playing conditions as well.      

The past week we put a collar around the putting green.  This all came about my first year here when we extended the green towards the north.   When this happened it was my intention to put a collar around the green and at the same time it would allow me to install a sprinkler head at the north end of the green.  Well it took a couple of years but finally we stripped the sod, dug the trench, installed the sprinkler and sodded the collar.  At the end of the green the collar that was added is a lot wider, this will be cut down to green height in the fall.  The end result will be one pass with a mower at collar/fringe height all the way around the green.

We borrowed a trencher to install the sprinkler head on the putting green. 

 

The sod that was stripped to put back on 15 tee and those tees were squared up.  The sod from the tee then came up to the putting green. 

As always Lexi has her two cents to put in.

 

Garden irrigation was installed around our sign at the front entrance.

As well there two sprinklers installed on the main decks on 14.  Before there were only two heads to cover these two teeing areas and both sprinklers threw water to the east.  Now there are two sprinkler heads on the other side throwing water back to the west, helping the tee by providing double coverage.  The two alternate tees on 14 did not have proper irrigation so we moved up a sprinkler to cover these two decks.  Finally to complete the few days of chaos we added a sprinkler head on the back of 13 tee complex as well.    

All of these additions are going to help to keep healthier turf and a beautiful front enterance to boot.

 

As always if you have any questions please fell free to contact me.

kendalllindsay@hotmail.com

Cheers Kendall