Bunker and Tee Construction

We are very fortunate to have the help of Tom Robinson, retired superintendent from Ravinia Green CC, to come and shape for us whenever we need to build a tee or a bunker in-house. 

Here we can see Tom building a small practice bunker adjacent to our practice tee. 

This bunker was designed for hitting long shots from fairway bunkers.

The crew comes in and adds drain tile. The final grade is hand raked with a landscape rake. 

Sod is then laid from our bluegrass borrow area at the end of the range.

Everything that we are doing here could be completed on a larger scale if needed. There will come a time in the future when we will need to renovate our bunkers and we have the ability to do it all in-house.

Here you can see Tom shaping a new tee for us on 5. 

Tom borrowing soil from a nearby mound as his material for the tee.

This is a picture of the crew bringing a water line to the tee before Tom shaped it.

Here you can see that we have used a box made out of 6 "x 6" lumber for floating the surface of the tee level. This is a very effective and simple tool for providing a perfectly level surface.

The sod was taken from an unused championship tee that we reseeded.