New Range Mats

Here is some old news, but thought we would post it so it doesn’t seem like all we are posting is bad news these days. At the end of March, We installed new mats from Turfhound at the range.

After a few drill bits and a couple hours of prep time measuring and setting up the frames for proper alignment these babies were finally installed and look great. The fact the mats have trays insure that they are always straight and won’t slide underneath the golfers feet. They also have tee holders so golfer could hit their ball off of a real tee and also at the height they prefer. They are holding up great and have only heard good things about them so far.

Reoccurring Nightmare

For about the past month we have, in some shape or form, been dealing with an irrigation issue. It all started the day we charged up the system and noticed that we had some weeping heads scattered around the course.  We decided to shut the main pump down since it was so wide spread. The very next day, after charging up the system we had a head on our 6^th hole shoot straight out of the ground. As we started to repair the other holes we realized we had a reoccurring nightmare on our hands. All of the swing joints seemed to be breaking on the threading right below the head. After repairing some 15 heads we thought we were in the clear but no such luck. A few days ago we thought we had all the heads fixed but as we began to run the fairways through for the 4th time a new issue cropped up. 

OLD FAITHFUL

 

The new issue is a crack or complete a break in the housing and have had to replace 4 heads like this just on 16 fwy alone. In the last couple of days we have had our fingers crossed and it has seemed to work. Only  one internal became dislodged from a head on the 15^th hole. The issues have come in waves and I hope that the tides have finally settled.