Tee Project

An overlooked portion of the golf course that can change how a player approaches a hole are tees.  Just by changing the angle or length of the hole from the tee can make a hole play completely different.  As ball and club technology advance at an alarming rate so to does tee locations to preserve the design of golf holes.  The easiest way of doing this is to lengthen or move tees into strategic locations that bring hazards that were once in play, back into play.  This was the case for us on several holes. 

Mottin Golf Course Renovations did a fantastic job with the tee renovations.  Here are the steps for one of the tee box renovations. 

Step 1) Grading of the site for proper drainage and proper tee mix fill


Shaping the tee and tee surrounds


Step 2) The subsurface drainage was installed and then a four inch layer of tee mix(60:40 sand to peat) was compacted overtop leveling off the tee with the tee surround.  

Tee mix and drainage filled in and graded

 

Step 3) Irrigation lines were trenched using mini excavators

Trenching of irrigation lines



 

Step 4) PVC pipe and wire were laid into the trenches and hooked up to existing irrigation wiring and pipe.  The trenches were then backfilled with soil. 

 

 

 

Step 5) Sod is then placed down over the final graded tee and tee surround

 

 

Step 6) The seams of the bentgrass sod are filled with sand, which helps create a smooth surface without any breaks between the sod. 



Seams filled with sand

 Step 7) Finished product!