16th Green drainage work.

The 16th green has suffered for many years with drainage issues, despite being set on a slope, the green suffers from large amounts of run-off water moving across the surface of the green. Many attempts have been made to solve the problems, including installing a series of drains around the back and side of the green.
This week we have installed a new piped drainage system into the green which we have connected into all the surrounding drain channels.

We surveyed the green before we started to make sure the main drain was placed in the lowest part of the green. Something which had never          been done before.

We installed over 125 m of 80mm diameter perforated pipe in trenches 250mm wide and 750mm deep.

Weather depending, we intend to carry out work on the 12th & 14th greens.