Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Waiting for our irrigation pump to be installed

​we got a new pump put in on the course and of course in April we had a heat wave come through and start burning up the greens.We had to figure out how to water the greens to keep them from burning up. We used a trash pump, made a hose hookup for the discharge and used the waters near the greens to water them.any greens without a pond source we used a sprayer filled with water, attached a hose to the pump and were able to water

Big issue was the grass became hydrophobic and didn’t penetrate.


Because we made this move we were able to save the greens. They struggled but we didn’t lose them.

Drought 2022

​I found these pictures I sent to the old general manager on my iPad. I lost them all when my phone died. A little back story, we ran out of water from our irrigation pond. Our well pump that fills the pond broke as well. We had no rain and we lost a lot of grass.


Hole #1 dead bent grass

Hole #1 two weeks after overseeding with rye grass.

Hole #1 from the green

Hole #1 two weeks after

Hole #1 middle of fairway looking towards the green

Hole #1 two weeks after

Just wanted to put this here.