Irrigation Update

Many of you have seen the pipes and flags around the golf course for our small irrigation project so I thought I would bring you up to speed on what we are doing. Our irrigation system is some what new about 11 years old and runs very well except for one major flaw, I can not irrigate the rough around the greens without irrigating the green itself. So what you might say. The rough requires 3 to 5 times more water then the green surface especially on our sloping bunker banks. Our project this year was to irrigate the all the rough around the practice green, the rough along the cart path at the practice green, the rough between the porch and 1st tee, and the rough around the third green. These projects will be finishing up today and totaling 7 new zones that can all be controlled separately from each other through our main irrigation computer, my hand held radio, or locally from the valve itself. This is the second project upgrading our bunker irrigation, the first was the 7th green. We will continue to do these types of projects every year until all of our green surrounds can be irrigated separately from the green surfaces.