Oops...Not Quite What We Planned

There is many areas on the course that receive an extreme amount of maintenance for what they are.  My personal pet peeve is the lack of required irrigation necessary to keep the greens surrounds healthy and playable (SEE HERE for more whining by me).  It takes running hoses, little wap-waps, and lots of time and labour to keep surrounds on certain greens from burning out during the summer.  Adding extra irrigation to a green like #7 isn't an ideal situation but it is the type of project that suits our budget and addresses one of the areas where we do quite a bit of hose irrigation.

We had some control wire left from expanding the irrigation on #6 green as well as some irrigation pipe from the driving range "do again" renovation.  Also, this spring we dug up an inch and half remote valve left in the ground from when we re-did the irrigation around 5 green a few years back.  Combine all these items and the fact that a control satellite is directly beside 7 green, installing a make shift surrounds line around 7 green appeared feasible.

We picked a routing and started work but unfortunately we weren't the first to use that routing and ended up hitting the lateral that controlled the front heads on 7 green.  Actually, hitting it is an understatement.  We demolished a large portion of it: oops.  We spend an extra couple days fixing that and now we're back on finishing the initial project. I'll keep you updated at we go along.
   

Repairing the Line

If you look around the course you will see a bucket load of saskatoon blossoms.  This year, and this observation relates to the turf also, has seen great growing conditions early on and all plants are loving it.

Saskatoon Bush on 15 Green

How the spring growth will play itself out during the rest of the year is hard to say but there is lots of potential!