Improvement to number six tee complex

Some of you might have noticed a ditch behind the ladies tee on number six. We dug this ditch to see how much ground water would settle into it from the pinestraw hillside between the seniors and ladies tee boxes. After observing the ditch for a week and after a one inch plus rainfall we did not see the amount of water in the ditch we thought we would have seen. We then decided to take up all the pinestraw on the hillside and the top two inches of organic matter that had accumulated over the years from the pinestraw and mulch. After this process was completed we waited a few days to see how much the hillside would dry up. The hillside dried up enough where we felt that drainage would not be necessary on the hillside, but we did install some at the bottom behind the ladies tee box. The hillside was sodded on Wednesday evening. Here are some pictures of the entire process.