EA work - Turfing started & progressing well!

Today, Lakeland have made a great start to the turfing of all the areas associated with the EA Flood Defence Scheme.

You will see that the new 8th tee has been turfed. The artificial mat is now fully integrated into the back of the tee and it is looking excellent. Obviously, this tee is considerably more raised than previously.

However, the reasoning behind this is that in the event of a 100 year flood occurrence, this tee will remain unaffected should the ditch and bunding cause the 7th green/8th tee area to flood.

Thus the level of this new 8th tee is the same height as the bund that has been created over the ditch.

Turfing is now well underway on the bund too and progress is very quick indeed. The contouring and grading of the surrounding area has been superbly executed by Lakeland. It goes to demonstrate that having an experienced golf course construction contractor is extremely beneficial for works such as these.

The remaining works to be carried out include the construction of the new 4th tee and a concrete path area adjacent to the pump station. By early next week, these works should be finalised and it should tie in very sympathetically with the existing part of this area of the golf course.