Final Tee Update

We kind of finished the last of the golf course tee leveling project this week.  I say kind of because we ran short on sod, but more will be here next week Wednesday when we re-sod the teaching tee.  The picture to the left is of 2 Lake Cinnabar tee which turned out really nice.  The hardest of all of the tees we re-leveled was 7 canyon.  We had to raise the back of the tee close to 8 inches.  It is still a little soft, but with water and rolling, it shall be fine.

During the process, I found two guys on our crew that have an amazing eye for making a tee level.  Both Odilio Landa and Addel Montero did a great job with  9 lake, 2 lake, and 2 canyon Cinnabar tees.  When I went to check 9 lake with the transit, it was sloping front to back and left to right by less than 1.25 inches.  You couldn't do better with the best equipment you could buy.  I joked around with Odilio that he is so good because he is so close to the ground (maybe 5'4").

Projects will now be on a hiatus until we complete the fairway aeration which starts next Tuesday the 27th and concludes on Tuesday the 11th of October.  Unless of course I decide to bite off more than I can chew as usual.

Tee Update

Starting Monday, we will begin removing the sod from 2 & 9 lake tees and also 2, 3, & 7 canyon tees.  The correct sod will be here on Thursday the 22nd.  We delayed the project because I forgot that we did not have a close nine this past week.  This week will still be tough being that we have three 200+ player tournaments.

The new tees that we did two weeks ago are doing great.  They have been mowed a dozen times or so by now and a lot of the imperfections are working themselves out.  You may have also noticed that we topdressed them very heavily to help with the imperfections.  Things seem to be on schedule to open them in the next 3 weeks.

Got Laid

I am talking about the sod of course.  What did you think I was talking about?  We received the correct sod early Friday  morning and had it laid by 11 am.  The tees look great and more importantly, they are level.  I hope to have the tees open in 4 - 6 weeks depending on how well the sod takes hold.  While they are growing in, we will be preparing the tees on 2 lake, 9 lake, 2 canyon and 3 canyon for sod on the 15th of September.