Fall Projects Update

Here's a quick run down of a few of the projects we have going on the course right now:

We are pouring concrete on the cartpath coming off the bridge on 1/10 where it Y's off toward both of those fairways.  This is without a doubt one of the highest traffic areas on the course, so having this path finished in concrete will help keep things quite a bit cleaner as well as reduce a lot of wear in the rough where the paths end.

Furthermore, we will be rebuilding the triangle shaped retaining wall where the path Y's by #1 red tee as well as building a small wall by that tee in order to reduce the steep slope leading up to it.

The concrete path will be finished on Tuesday and the retaining wall portion will be going up next week.

Thanks to Midwest Refrigeration for their sponsorship of this entire project.

Next, thanks to another contribution from the Anonymous donor who sponsored our first concrete cartpath project on 15 green/16 tee in 2011, we are adding the last section of concrete to that path that comes down along the top of the bunker toward 15 fairway.  This section of path had always been gravel since we had finished that project three years ago, and was fairly steep and always prone to washouts, bringing lots of gravel down into the rough below it leading to poor turf conditions at the beginning of the path.

The fairway bunker on 11 is getting a minor re-do as we remove the sand area on about the left 1/3 of it.  There is an Ash tree encroaching on the left edge of the bunker, leading to the possibility of being in the bunker, as well as stuck behind a tree at the same time.  In order to make the situation more fair, we are simply removing the left part of the bunker.  While in the process of rebuilding the bunker, we added drainage to it as well.

Our last big project this fall involves moving the huge bunker front/left of 1 green and re-routing and pouring concrete on the path from 1 green to 2 tee.  The bunker left of 1 green was ridiculously large, most of it was even closer to 2 tee that it was to 1 green.  Furthermore, because of its size and location, it forced cart traffic exiting 1 fairway way too far around it and into the path of golfers teeing off on hole 2.  The bunker is going to be reshaped about 15' closer to 1 green, reduced in size by about 50%, and the cartpath is being re-routed to allow better traffic flow through the area.

Lastly, another big thanks to a group of 20 members that pooled their funds together in order to cover the cost of replacing all of the old, deteriorated asphalt path there with a new concrete path.