Starting to Prepare for the Renovation

 

The crew is starting to remove the sod from old 7 tee now that we are not using the par 3 anymore.  This is pure bentgrass that we will use throughout the course.  This large tee area will now become our new green nursery using our aeration plugs next week from the greens.  This will be beneficial when we do green expansions or make new greens bigger than the current greens.

Where Andy Staples widened our fairways we were able to scalp down our existing rough and start converting to bentgrass with herbicides, seeding and topdressing.  Here you see where much of the expansion is Kentucky Bluegrass, this will not transition to fairway grass properly and is thinning out due to the low mowing heights.  We are stripping this area out and using the sod from old 7 tee to get it to match better.  We are doing this on holes 10 and 13 also.