Let's rebuild this tee

That was the beginning of our morning meeting last Monday.  It occurred to me that our two larger tee boxes were healing rapidly and the lower one could be skipped for the next month.  That's the perfect time to undertake an in-house project that will cost little but do so much.

Monday morning we ripped the sod off this tee and reused whatever would hold together to patch up thin spots on the range and on the course.  Most of the sod would shred to pieces as soon as we tried to move it.  So we brought in Oso (on the tractor) and he did an amazing job scraping the sod off the tee without a single gouge.  I have zero talent when it comes to grading soil, so I was thrilled to watch him work.  Today, I borrowed a box blade for our tractor and Oso and Santiago, our mechanic, will get back to work next Monday, prepping the tee for seed.






This project will be completed in a month's time.  It
certainly will not take a month's worth of work, but we only can make progress when the tee is closed, on Mondays and our upcoming 'closed week.'  The final product will be a level surface with a 1-1.5% slope.  The tee top will be twice the size of the existing tee and will be a solid stand of ryegrass.  In the subsoil, we will incorporate plenty of bermuda parts which will return next summer.  If you ever tried to rid your garden, yard, or sidewalk cracks of bermuda, you know that this stuff is good at coming back.

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