Practice Range

Yesterday we began the grading project on the practice range landing area, below are a couple of pictures, one from each end of the range before we began.

Then the rubber tire loader showed up.  Our goal is to level our the landing area (take the hump out of the middle) so it is easier to watch where the balls land.  We will then rebuild the target greens, resod with grass from #16 and #17 fairways and trim the trees back to enlarge the inside of the range.

Here are some more pics of the grading that has begun.  I will continue to update this post until we finish the range.

Here is another picture with the grading almost completed.  We cut over 3 feet of soil out of the middle and pushed it to the back of the range.  Next we will begin with the shaping of the target greens.

The last two days have had work done on the range that wasn't that noticable however very improtant.  We have begun the trenching to replace the irrigation system we removed before grading and we also rototilled the new area to loosen up the compacted soil to prepare it for sod.

8/29/13 UPDATE

We are almost finished with the work on the range as well as completing the kikuyu sod in the fairways.  This week we completed sodding the driving range and today we completed sodding the target greens with hybrid bermudagrass.  We are trying to complete everything this week so we can open the range for the weekend.  Please keep your carts off the new sod for a couple weeks so it can become well rooted.