Restoration

 All of May was spent installing mainline and restoring those "out of play" areas damaged by the tree removal phase of the project.  We applied hydroseed to about 50,000 square feet of area.

The hydroseed has a blend of annual ryegrass, turf type tall fescue, and chewings fescue.

Charging up and flushing some sections of the new HDPE mainline.

This narrow area behind 15 green was tricky since there was already stuff in the ground there like sewer, gas, power, and of course irrigation pipe. 

It was really wet the day the LU team was behind 11 green.  I thought the soft conditions would result in a lot of turf damage but they did a great job of cleaning up.  

This was the first section of pipe that they had to fuse togther in the trench.  It was facinating since part of the fusion machine is designed to be lifted off and placed in the trench when necessarry.  This was 8" pipe that crossed over 10 fairway and this fusion occured near 10 fairway bunker.

Brent Harvey came into town recently to get ready for the next phase which is pulling laterals.  This is when the sprinkler heads go in.  In this picture you can see them using that GPS stick thingy to pin point each sprinkler head location.  We made a lot on in field adjustments around the trees to try and get the best coverage and also minimize damge to the trees.

Now you can see the little feather things on the ground which mark the location of the new sprinkler heads.  

There are at least two feather things together around the greens.  This is how we achieve complete control of the firmness of the greens since one sprinkler only waters the green and the other only waters the surrounding area.