#8 Green Drainage

 Going into #8 we had a bad feeling about this one. We knew the piping was located underneath the trees on the left side of the fairway. The trees are much larger today than 22 years ago.



The picture above was our first find of the drainage pipe.
The picture below shows we had cut the pipe and water was found inside the pipe, not good

We didn't give up, thinking we may find some damaged pipe. However as we kept digging the water level was rising with it. We had also found the wye connection from the sand trap in front of #8 green.

Time for a new game plan.

Where we found the wye leading to the sand trap in front of #8 green:

1. Trenched a new ditch for the a new drain line.

2. Connected into the wye that had been found along with the main line drainage from the green.

3. The new pipe connects to an existing drain line in #8 fairway.

Along the way of trenching two different separate drain lines were cut.

1. By looking at the picture the upper cut was a drain line installed in the fairway to simply help drain a low spot.

2. The lower cut is the drain line installed to drain the fairway bunker on the right side of #8 fairway. It was quiet clear that the drainage was not working here also.

All drainage has been repaired to the green. The pipes that had been cut by the trencher are repaired and connected to the new drain pipe.

 Another job well done by our staff.

Willy plowman
Golf Course Superintendent