Golf Course Restoration Update for the Week of December 1-7, 2013

An incredible amount of work was completed last week on the restoration project of the course. Here are a few of the highlights of the activity:

• Irrigation at holes 7,8 and 9 have been staked out and the wire for the system on hole 7 is already laying on the ground. Bob Scott, TFP's irrigation consultant form Atlanta, GA was on property to supervise the staking of the irrigation and he will return soon to deliver more directives.
• The irrigation road crossings have been patched up by the Crosby Paving Company.
• TFP's project architect, Tim Liddy has been on site for the last several weeks to implements Mr. Dye's latest directives. Last week, Mr. Liddy implemented Dye's vision on golf holes 11,12,13,14,15,16,17 and 18. Mr Dye is scheduled to be back this week.
• The bulkhead at 2 has been removed in the demolition program.
• Strom water drainage installation is occurring at golf holes 1,2,9,10,11,14,17 and 18 last week and this week.
• The greens at holes 7 and 8 were drained and had the 4 inch gravel installed in them.
• Bunker drainage at holes 7,8,9 are being completed.

The gravel to 7 green has been added. The green complex looks amazing.

The bulkhead at #2 golf hole has been removed and new drainage is being installed.

#6 green complex shown here is being roto-tilled. A critical demolition step.

The irrigation wires for 7 green complex are waiting to be installed.

The bunker drainage at 7 green complex has been installed.

8 green has had the drainage installed and the gravel blanket laid over the top.

The old irrigation pump station skid has been removed.

Pumphouse Repair!

Last week we had to repair a pipe in the pumphouse. A small pin hole began to form in an 8 inch metal mainline that runs water from Lake Dye to our pumphouse. We had a repair like this last year on the other side of the pump (picture below). Guy Tremble from Tremble Pump & Well came and repaired the problem for us.

Weld repair from last year still holding strong.

Area where pipe was beginning to fail.

The first step is grinding the area where the small hole is developing.

The final step is welding a metal patch over the existing pipe to reinforce the entire area.

The Final Product: Area has been sealed and fixed.

The boom truck arrives at Ford.




The roof of the pump house is removed.

Straps are fastened to the pump.
Pump begins to be extracted.

Pump being lifted out of structure.





The trouble... large cracks in the pump itself.

A closer look at the cracks in the pump.

Divers preparing to dive to inspect pumps.

The divers found our basket filter for the pumps in terrible condition. They are suppose to have a screen around them to prevent debris and trash from getting in the pumps and causing damage.
This is the type of screening material that should be installed on the baskets. This material is made of stainless steel.

Here you can see that the metal mesh material made of galvanized screening is completely dissolved... rendering this filter useless.

Notice here, the original hardware used to fasten the basket filter to the pump was made of stainless steel and is in great shape. The club most likely saved $300 on basket filters years ago by not having them constructed in stainless steel.

Some examples of bulkhead damage.

#2 bulkhead damage.

#7 bulkhead damage. You can see here the turf just collapses in a hole.

#7 bulkhead damage.

An example of suffering turfgrass from having the irrigation system down.

No irrigation + hot weather = bad grass.