#9 Black Bird Irrigation Install

The installation of irrigation on #2 and #7 Black Bird has been completed and we have moved onto another large installation along the right side of #9 Black Bird. During the renovation of Black Bird, the pipes that fed the rough along the right side of the hole were cut and water was no longer available to the area. In a normal year, the fairway heads on #9 Black Bird and the rough heads on #9 Gray Hawk supplemented this area with enough water. This year's drought, however, showed us that it was necessary to irrigate this area.

This project actually allowed us to kill two birds with one stone. I was told there was a 4" irrigation feed that was used to supply water to the original driving range. When #9 Gray Hawk was built, the lateral pipes that fed off this 4" pipe were cut and left uncapped below the fairway of #9 Gray Hawk. The isolation valve for this old feed still remains on the right side of #9 Black Bird. If this valve was ever mistakenly opened, we would have blowouts throughout the fairway on #9 Gray Hawk. We cut this 4" line and tied it into the new line on the right side of #9 Black Bird. This line will provide plenty of water to the new line and prevent a disaster on #9 Gray Hawk fairway.