Day 6, A Massive Undertaking

I will post additional pictures tomorrow if the rain comes as predicted.  It was a long day with the staff working through 5 p.m. today.  #9 has really been a massive undertaking with the changes that have been made.  Kye worked all Saturday shaping the substantial area around the green in preparation for our work today.  The staff had to replace about 70% of the irrigation around the green because of the changes in the bunkers in which the old line would have been hit by the excavation of the new right rear bunker.   I ordered a tractor trailer load of sod, 1,200 yards and we laid about 600 before we had to stop.  The right bunker was trenched, drained and sand was placed in the bunker but additional sand must be added tomorrow as well as the front and sides.  We will have to trench to the two left hand bunkers and install the drainage as well as sod the banks and the remaining area around the green.  If the rain holds off, we can complete it by the end of the day on Tuesday with some luck.  If not, it will be Wednesday, Thursday or Friday depending upon the rain.  Kye hopes to begin on #18 on Tuesday and I expect he might have two days work.  In the meantime, we will need to work ahead of Kye and strip off #8.

I was going to delay #6 to see how our expenses line up in case we can do the cart path change but have decided to go ahead and get the left side bunkers completed.  This area can be very wet and I am concerned if I push it back too far it will be a real pain.  The front left bunker is to be removed and we will work on it as well.  I will save the two right hand bunkers for later since they are on the cart path and can be worked on in wet conditions.  We will still hold out hope of removing the path and installing a new one to the left side of the green.

Sod in front of #9, some in the back and around the back of #9 right side bunker.