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Welcome to Kinipela Backyard Putting Green : Natures Gold
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110th U.S. Open Championship at Pebble Beach from the Inside. Rob Crompton has worked in turf maintenance, construction, and as a turf manager for 17 years. This is his story of the week he volunteered for the 2010 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach. It has been a long time of waiting with anticipation, but now the time has finally arrived to make the trip down to Pebble Beach for the 110th U.S. Open. I was working with Juvencio Lopez and we were mowing collars and approaches on the front nine. My afternoon j...
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Welcome to Kinipela Backyard Putting Green : HTML Gallery
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Welcome to Kinipela Backyard Putting Green : Tee Box
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Click on any image to see a larger picture. The thick wooded area is where I will build my 250 square foot tee box. Most of the trees will be removed (strategically flattened) so the tee can be built. Left: Trees are down and now the clean-up starts. Right: I found the stream bed and to my surprise there are rocks along side the banks. Left: Tee box is all cleaned up, rocks are going down on the stream bed. Right: A straight on look of the tee box. Left: Starting to make the front edge of the tee. Left: ...
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Welcome to Kinipela Backyard Putting Green : Natures Gold
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A friend of mine understands my turf drive and anytime there is an opportunity for me to get involved, he is there to help. Jeff Steen: a golf course Superintendent for the Pebble Beach Company (PBC) is from Vancouver Island and one day we were talking about me coming back down for a visit (it has been four years since the AT&T). Now that s living the turf dream. Alright let s get back to the project at hand. Jeff met me at the airport, but my luggage did not! Rob Crompton - Feb 2009.
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Welcome to Kinipela Backyard Putting Green : Bridge
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Click on any image to see a larger picture. Left: Removed rough sod from infront of the green. I will dig down and expose the main drain line. Right: Dug a big area in which to work in. Right: Back filling with sand around the air vent (on the left) and the plunger valve (on the right). Left: All the rough sod has been put back to finish this part of the project. I worked in some Rye seed into the scarred areas and in time it will return back to a thick canopy of turf.
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Welcome to Kinipela Backyard Putting Green : NEWEST ARTICLES
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This story about Kinipela was written in July 2005, titled " A Five Star Backyard". This story is available for reading in Adobe .pdf format. 970 kb) by clicking HERE. Green Master ( June 2003 ) writes an article named "Puttering around at home" This 4 page article was one of the first published about Kinipela. This story is available for reading in Adobe .pdf format. 19 mb) by clicking HERE. This story is available for reading in Adobe .pdf format. 30 mb) by clicking HERE. 15 mb) by clicking HERE.
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Welcome to Kinipela Backyard Putting Green : Soil Testing
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Click on any image to see a larger picture. I would like to thank David and Eric Doherty with providing this valuable information. It will improve my green and in the process makes me a better turf manager, which is a good thing. I can t stress enough how important it is having accurate information when maintaining healthy turf .125 or lower. I invite you to visit ISTRC's. Website where you will find valuable information for maintaining healthier turf. 2009 ISTRIC Kinipela Soil Test results.
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Welcome to Kinipela Backyard Putting Green : Support
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Click on any image to see a larger picture. To be successful with a turf project like this you will need lots of help and ongoing support. You need to ask questions and to do your best at problem solving. When Murphy s Law comes along to cause havoc with your project (and he will) you will have to find a way to solve the problems. Jennifer Crompton wife/G.M. Brian Youell, Superintendent Uplands GC. Greg Kowalski, superintendent Royal Oak GC. John Smith, web site designer/ CapitalCity.ca.
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Welcome to Kinipela Backyard Putting Green : Bridge
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Click on any image to see a larger picture. Left: I dug out the bank level and built the form for the cement footings, they will be carrying all the weight of the bridge. Right: I placed a 3' length of rebar at each inside corner and one 3' length in the middle of the form. I then placed bricks in and around the wire and rebar. I did this procedure in both footings to add strength to them. Left: The boards are 4 long x 9 wide x 2 thick, the string line helps me to keep the boards straight and looking good.
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Kinipela Backyard Putting Green
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Click on any image to see a larger picture. Left: I used a garden hose to help me with picking a shape for my green. The pole in the ground is the middle of the green. Left: Again "Murphy's Law" would raise his ugly head. This time it was a huge boulder in front of my green. You could see by the plywood board where my main drain line is and where the big rock sits, it had to go. The rock size was 4.5' long x 2.5' wide x 4' deep. It had to be blasted out. Right: Wooden stakes were hammered into the subsur...
