You will see us doing work on the tees at hole 5 this week. We are stripping the current sod and changing these tees over to Bermuda grass. Ever since we installed these tees we have struggled to maintain quality turf especially on the primary middle tee. The issues are a combination of foot traffic and environment.
Although divoting does take place, the twisting motion of golf spikes is taking its toll on the surface. The turf struggles as people swing a little harder to coax their ball up the hill. This coupled with the extremly hot and airless location makes keeping grass aggressive enough to maintain it's condition very difficult. If you haven't noticed the grass in the rough has transitioned almost entirely to Bermuda grass. This indicates that the envoironment favors it's development over cool season grasses in this location.
The switch will occur with us removing and sodding about 2/3 of the teeing surfaces, which allows the tees to be kept in play. In two weeks we will move play onto the Bermuda tees (the same varieties now on the 9th and 14th tees) and then replace the remaining sod.
The goal is to always find methods that allow us to have the best playing surfaces possible no matter the location. Later this year we will complete the grassing of both 14 and 9 to Bermuda grass. We hope you like the improvement.
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