LGCC Golf Maintenance: Irrigation Renovation 6 and 7

We are in the process of starting the irrigation renovation on holes 6 and 7. Currently those holes are severely under irrigated with heads that are spaced 120ft apart with 85ft nozzles. This leads to all of the dry areas between the rows of heads that we see in the summer. Also, the current pipe size is too small for the required flow of water for each head, the control system is not wired correctly between the heads and irrigation controller, and the wires and pipe are buried too shallow preventing us from the doing the proper cultivation practices to the turf like aerifying.

We will be removing one row of heads and adding in 4 rows of heads, adding larger pipe sizes, a new irrigation controller, new wiring to all the heads, and pulling new deeper wires to the old heads that will be staying in the ground.

For the next 3 weeks, those two holes will look like a mine field of trenches, holes, rolls of sod, pipe, and wire everywhere. Please excuse our work as we perform this much needed improvement and take relief while playing golf from all areas under construction. Please keep your eyes open for areas where carts can cross the open trenches. Once this project is complete, these two holes will be much improved and all the hard pan dry areas will be gone.

We started by removing the old heads that will be used else where, locating pipes that we will be crossing and tieing into, and measuring and planning out all the new heads.

Removing and capping old heads

Digging up and locating pipes that we will cross - nice 6" tree root growing adjacent to the pipe and pushing it up

Everything has been laid out, planned, and measured. Now we are in the process of sod cutting all the trenches and laying back the sod. Trenching, backfilling and re-sodding the new pipe, heads, and wires will start next week