I'm grateful for Lyn, a member of the HCC team who has been with me for 20 years. He is teaching the contractor's staff the ins and outs of dry stacking native stone. Thanks to Lyn, the lower wall will be complete by the weekend. This allows them to get the irrigation installed and we can start looking towards getting turf down by mid-March.
Below, on #15, Brandon and Kyle started setting the fabric that will become the new creek bank. This is the exact same material and process that was recently done on #10 pond.
I had the opportunity to tour the new High Hampton property today with their Director of Grounds, David McIntosh and Highlands CC member, Mr. Davis. The property and golf course did not disappoint. This will be a special place, for sure!
On #11, shown below, we are getting ready to start pushing the mountain of soil that's been accumulating in the fairway. If you look closely, you can see a white painted line on the fairway that marks the area to be disturbed. This is are area that will raised with soil, then capped off with several inches of sand before being re-sodded. Our objective is to start pushing the pile of soil towards the stream in the photo.
Below, on #10, we are continuing to sort out about 4 different drainage challenges on that hole alone.
The first area is just on the fairway side of the stream in front of the forward tees, This area is a tough one with very few solutions. Water continues to seep from the base of the hillside that is covered in Fine Fescues. Raising the area up a foot or more may be our only option. For now, we scraped the layer of sod off the surface to be able to see what we are working with.
We are trying to prepare areas that need to be resodded but that is proving to be difficult because the ground is so saturated. More rain is expected tonight, along with significant ice.
More water continues seeping from the other bank on the left side of the hole. I've never seen so much water coming out of the ground in the form of natural springs.
While out on the course, I was taking some photos for future meetings to show the progress we made this winter. Here are some better shots of #12 green surrounds.
