Irrigation Upgrades

It seems like just a few weeks ago that I was begging for it to stop raining so the course could dry out some.  Now that the river has gone back in its banks and summer has started for real, we start to switch gears to putting water back on the course.

Utilizing our new pipe puller attachment that fits on the back of our compact tractor, we can now quickly and efficiently add irrigation lines whenever and wherever we need to.  Our first priority was pulling a line for a quick coupler (hose connection) up to the tee box on #2.  The sprinker coverage on that tee in particular is very poor, so it is necessary for us to have to handwater it from time to time.

Next, we added a line across 17 fairway into the left rough where we have frequent flooding problems.  That area has been seeded now 5 times in the 4 years I have been here, and it is always a struggle since there is no irrigation coverage down there.  While seed germinates and takes alright down there in the spring when there is plenty of rain, after a really late summer flood like we had this year, there is no way we would get anything to grow down there (besides weeds) without being able to irrigate it.

Our new 3-point pipe puller laid a new line across 17 fairway in less than 10
minutes, and with very minimal disruption.

In an area that floods at least once, if not twice annually, these 3 new
irrigation heads should be able to help us finally keep some decent
turf down on the left side of hole 17.

One of the downfalls of pulling pipe on an irrigation system that has been
added on to so many times.   Random wires snake through the rough
almost everywhere, these wires in the rough on 6 that power our irrigation
controllers were buried only 3 inches deep, and were 20' away from the mainline
(where they were supposed to be)