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The Indian Creek Turf Talk blog has been up and running for a few years now. It has been fun to manage and is hopefully insightful for those of you that take the time to read its content. I have always tried to write about topics that I think would interest the golfer, Indian Creek customer, backyard farmer, and/or turf professional. I hope I have done a good job of that.

We all know the off-season can be long and by late winter golf can be a distant memory. I would like to keep you all engaged in the game and Indian Creek this winter but I need your help. I would like to use your input to drive some of the topics and conversation for future articles. Please feel free to offer up and send any questions, observations, or conversation topics to jimnedrow@gmail.com.

 I have grown up around the golf industry my entire life so, although my specialty is agronomics, I would love to discuss any topic related to the game. This site is supposed to serve the readers so help me tailor my topics to best do that.

Here are few photos from the past season to help keep you inspired all winter long. Also, don't forget about the indoor practice facility/hitting bay's this winter. They provide a great opportunity to get some real swing feedback all year long.

Ever Improving Drainage

This past fall, a lot of time was spent making minor improvements to increase the efficiency of our fairway drainage systems. Major improvements were previously made during the course renovation, but the heavy rains this past fall pointed out a number of areas that need continued improvement. Unfortunately a handful of those areas will take resources and shaping skills that we cannot provide in house and, for those, a master plan will be developed. Each area will be prioritized and fixed when time and resources allow. As for the smaller, more manageable areas, we are able to address those ourselves and we already made good strides this past fall.

The areas we focused on the last few months were areas that didn't surface drain as fast as we needed. This was due to a number of issues. Some areas didn't have adequate fall and the velocity of the draining water wasn't high enough to remove it from the playing surface fast enough. In other areas, the water simply had too much ground to cover before reaching a basin.

We went about fixing the insufficient slope issues in one of two ways. We either increased the percent slope along the entire run of the waterway through grading or by lowering the basin itself. These promoted higher water velocities along the run of the drainway and entering the basins.

The areas that simply relied on surface drainage for too long of a stretch were fixed by grading in and installing small inlets throughout the entire run of the waterway.

 Below are photos of some work we did on Gray Hawk #1

 

Below are photos of some work we did on 1 Black Bird