Remedy For Winter Injury...Drainage!

With the winter being the toughest winter in 30 years by many reports, we can really see our weaknesses on the course.   The weaknesses in question are that of greens internal drainage.  The damage on the low spot on 16 green is a direct result of not allowing the water to drain from the green internally through the winter months.  We have recently trenched and installed internal drainage with our staff, to greatly improve the drainage, health and hence, playability of the 16th green.

 Neatly removing a thin strip of sod, to be replaced with new sod from our nursery green in the near future.

                                      Trenching to a depth of 18" to allow for drain tile install.

             We used a laser transit to allow for correct slope and flow of the drained water off the green.

Drain tile install.

We backfilled the pipe and trench with a special "Greens drainage" sand to allow for increased percolation into the drain line.

The night after we installed the line, a rain event occured and we can see the water flowing through the green and into the pipe already!