Looks like we will open the range this coming Wednesday, May 30 or at the very latest this coming Friday. At this stage, the sodded tee deck is fairly established and is not the real hurdle. The time line I mentioned in the
March 14th post did not happen exactly as planned but we are more or less where I had hoped. It took us longer to get the area prepared and we didn't started seeding until May 10 (versus May 4 which I had planned). The good news was there was germination happening after 9 days (May 19th) and a definite green sward by 14 days (May 24th). The seed blend we used was a Perennial Rye and Kentucky Bluegrass blend. Rye can germinate in 7 to 10 days at optimum temperatures and Kentucky will germinate in 14 to 30 days. Before opening the range my hope was to have the rye well on its way and the Kentucky starting to grow but, as previously mentioned, preparing the seedbed took longer so we were late to seed. Not an ideal situation but not the end of the of the world either.
We still need to repair the netting, add sand to the practice bunker, and complete the tie in around the edges. The way it is going with regular on course maintenance taking up most of the mornings we will probably work on the range during the latter half of our days. I just added some picks showing various stages for you to browse.
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| D-9 Pushing Material Last Fall |
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Trenching in Irrigation
Fall 2011 |
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Trenching in Control Tubing
Spring 2012 |
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Preparing for Seeding
Spring 2012 |
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Finishing off Seeding and Watering it in
Spring 2012 |
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| 17 Days After Seeding |
Not a lot of pictures. I missed quite a few good pictures showing the process since I wasn't always enough on the ball to remember my camera plus some of the pictures I did take are sort of boring.
Most likely the new seedlings will require babysitting for a bit and we may have to visit some of the irrigation heads but hopefully the problems and inconveniences are few and far between.
