This a simple, quick read about irrigation during drought/dry conditions.
We have a double row system here at HMGC, which means we have irrigation heads on each side of the fairway. If we run each head for 5 minutes, the center of the fairway will receive 2 1/2 minutes of water from each side for a total of 5 minutes. The areas (rough and first cut) will only receive 1/2 of that water or 2 1/2 minutes total , which most likely is an inadequate amount of water for the plant to survive.
The issue is if we increase the amount of time that each fairway head runs to compensate the rough, the fairways will become even more saturated and softer. We are doin the best we can with the irrigation system that was installed in 1997 and was an upgrade to a single row system that featured sprinklers only down the middle of the fairways.
We will be due for a new system in the next 5-10 years, so until then we will continue to keep the in play areas alive and as firm as possible as to limit any turf loss.
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