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If you want a tough, well-rooted sward - packed with strong, even growth, attractive to look at, hard-wearing BASF United Kingdom Limited, Lady Lane, Hadleigh, Ipswich. Tel: (0473) 822531. Floranid is a BASF trademark. BASF Group REBUILDING AND CONSTRUCTING NEW TEES Adrian Stiff, Head Greenkeeper at Tracy Park Golf Club, More important is the align- near Bristol, details the work that has taken place at his ment. If you prefer your tees to course over the past five years to improve the quality of conform to the traditional shape, the teeing areas. they must be straight. The easi- est method is to take the central Tracy Park Golf and Country ward and forward movements, axis of your fairway as the central Club, a 27 hole golf complex at with the added disadvantage of axis of the tee and mark out the Wick, between Bath and Bristol, considerable variation of the width equally on either side. was opened in 1976, less than a yardage to the green and in turn, Drainage and movement of air year after the initial layout was the degree of difficulty of the within the tee area are essential completed. hole. factors which must be consid- Like many new golf courses Wider tees offer the flexibility ered, particularly if the site is working to tight budgets, pres- of multiple lateral movement of prone to holding water or re- sure on initial finance led to cost markers, increasing the overall and forward positions can be accommodated using a three stricted by shadow from wood- cutting which unfortunately re- playing area, particularly the circle design. land, shutting out essential sun- flected in a lower than desirable area adjacent to the left marker, Overlapping circles give light. standard of construction. which in general, receives the shaped tees with rounded At Tracy Park we have found A further nine holes are soon least amount of turf abrasion. corners. internal tee drainage is not nec- to be added, which could contrib- essary as long as all four sides of ute to the club's ultimate ambi- Golfers spend the tee are elevated. tion to stage one of the first major last putting surface. Construction of new tees will tournaments in the West of Eng- as much time Where sufficent land is avail- no doubt vary in different loca- land. on the tees as able it is well worth considering tions of the course, but if the Back in the '70s few tees were an extra tee as an alternative, underlying soil is of good quality, constructed, with nothing for the they do on the which could be used during the strip the top layer and stock-pile lady members apart from a I greens | winter period, perhaps with the mown strip on the fairway, inclusion of a synthetic surface. though over the past five years The initial planning stage for The shape of the tee is another the club has undertaken a major tee construction is critical. Con- factor to take into consideration. tee building programme, total- sideration must be given to the It is not necessary, nor even ling eighty to date. siting, not only in relation to the desirable, to keep to the square Such is the rapid expansion of hole to be played, but to the or rectangular tee design. the game of golf, coupled with previous hole. Obstructions and Although design is a matter of the number of rounds demanded bunkers in line from the last preference and opinion, kidney by visitors and members alike, green to the next tee can create shaped, oval, overlapping the first batch are already prov- stressful conditions to the sur- circles or more intricate patterns ing inadequate in size and shape rounding turf, concentrating traf- can add appeal and interest to tees offer more for our daily needs. fic within narrow areas. the golf course. marker positions. Tracy Park is not alone in this New tee building, should Future maintenance must it to be used later. situation of inadequate teeing whenever possible allow ease of always be a primary factor and if We apply Glyphosate to the areas, an aspect of golf course exit from the previous green, it is decided to cut the tees with a teeing area and the surrounding construction that has been taking into consideration safety greens triplex, rounding off the banks prior to the initial construc- grossly underestimated on and flexibility of movement in the corners will make the mowing tion and after two or three weeks many of the courses in the way golfers disperse from the that much easier. United Kingdom. Tees for a rotovate to a suitable depth of six progessive course catering for inches. The soil now becames an increasing number of rounds friable and easily pushed around Fig. 1 should be of similar proportion to or collected using a blade or Overlapping circles the size of the greens. bucket. give shaped tees Pegging and staking is the Certainly, in my experience, with rounded next stage, followed by the plac- the par 3's should have a teeing corners. ing of the infill material into the area of 500 square metres and base to the required depth. We even at this size can still become use a three man team for this very worn, unless they are regu- part of the operation, two hauling larly divotted, oversown and in- and one to judge and spread the tensively maintained.