Showing posts with label Driving Range. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Driving Range. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Synthetic Teeing Area ONLY in Winter


The above picture is the area immediately in front of our synthetic teeing area on our range. The turf is obviously exhausted from the long season. This area has been aerated, seeded, and fertilized this Fall 2009. Please stay off.


The area at the bottom of the above picture is the same area as the previous picture.


We made quite a financial investment to our driving range tee in 2009. We would sure like to keep it nice for years to come, and by having golfers use the synthetic area only in the Winter this will sure help.

Driving Range Rebuild January 2009

2009 Driving Range rebuild finished product. 195' long by 6.5 width. 12' area to the opposite side of bag racks was sodded with bluegrass and the rest in Westwood Bermuda - you can see the line between th two different grasses.
A close up picture of the new synthetic material, dense enough to tee a ball up. A view of some similar synthetic material installed on the back of our range. The material came in three 65' rolls that we rolled out and seamed together. Hoping for a life expectancy of 10-15 years.



This excavated area was dug to a depth of 6", filled and compacted with 3/4" clean rock then topped with ag lime for leveling. We installed a synthetic teeing area hoping to lengthen the life of our grass teeing area. Golfers are to use the synthetic area only in the Winter while the grass is dormant.


This Bobcat 753 with metal tracks was used to move tilled area out to edges to enlarge teeing ground.


Here is a picture of our driving range tee upgrade in January 2009. Tilled, graded, and enlarged old worn out Westwood Bermuda tee.