Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
New Sprinklers Bringing Back Golf Course Fairways To Their Green Glory
Four Winds Golf Course superintendent Jeremy Williams hooks up a newly installed sprinkler on the eighth green. For Williams, this is another kind of "hole in one" to celebrate. The new sprinklers have saved the day at Four Winds.
Four Winds Golf Course superintendent Jeremy Williams reminisced on the golf course water troubles of the past year: "It was a perfect storm of terrible weather, not much rain, sprinklers . . . Oh, it has just been a nightmare."
Late last summer, gravel began to infiltrate the course's water system, plugging up many of the almost 1,000 sprinklers. Williams said he thought there was a leak in the system, and it was pulling gravel in. It took a couple of months to determine that the big well was the problem, pulling gravel in from holes in the casing.
In December 2023, the Kimball City/County Pa...
