Tee Box Contamination and Renovation

The lime colored grass is zoysia, which came from the 10 acres of zoysia we have planted through out the golf course. the rest of the grass on this tee is 419 from San Antonio



we sod cut then removed the grass and organic matter

tee box being raked out and sprigged, the sprigs were cut from another spot on the golf course that consisted of a pure stand of turf, the white pipe is temporary irrigation that was installed for watering through out the day, we had to water the sprigs a bout 6 times a day to keep them moist

After 3 weeks of growing, looks pretty good, the grass is starting to knit together

After 3 weeks, about 80% coverage, to this point these tee boxes have received 1lb of nitrogen a week to assist them in growing over

When Squire Creek was built earlier this decade everything was sodded, except for the greens. The turf of choice was 419 bermudagrass, and most of this was brought in from Tifton, Georgia. The tees however are different story, the grass on those were brought in from San Antonio, Texas.

Since the tees have a sand base they used washed sod. Washed sod is where the soil is removed from the sod to create a bare root product. This also is used to eliminate sod to soil incompatibilities, help the sod knit to the soil faster, and reduce shipping costs.
When you use a turf from two different fields there are going to be some differences and it can present contamination problems. This is why we have chosen to re-sprig 4 of our tees.

If all goes well the tees should be open for the D-Cup and we may choose a few more to do next year.

Bunker Work

As you all know the bunkers at Squire Creek are a penalty for the golfer but also a penalty for the grounds crew. We recently have started to redo the bunker in front of 3 green. Over the years the bunker has washed so many times that is has created large amounts of silt and organic matter build up in the bottom of the bunker. This creates a drainage nightmare, the silt settles on the gravel layer over the drainage pipe and it becomes very slow to drain. We have now taken out all the old sand and gravel. We cleaned the pipe, replaced the gravel, and are going back with a liner over the whole bunker. Then we will adding Premier White bunker sand. This sand is a very course sand, it is actually crushed quartz. So it has an extremely high percolation rate, which is great for us.