With summer and the golfing season in full swing, it’s time to discuss our upcoming golf course tee project that’s scheduled to start September 2nd. As many of you already know, the club has been working with golf course architect Chris Wilczynski now for the past 4 seasons. For those of you that don’t know, Chris is a disciple of Art Hills and worked 20+ years for Art’s firm, designing golf courses all over the world. Chris enjoys our golf course and shares many of the same visions Art Hills had for our course back in the early 90’s. The first phase of our masterplan project was to remove all the dead and or dying trees from the golf course, essentially cleaning up the pallet. Now that we have a decent handle on the tree situation, it’s time to complete the next phase towards the completion of our masterplan vision for Gull Lake C.C. and our wonderful golf course.
The golf and grounds committees have been actively working along side the architect for the past year, planning out and tailoring the tee renovation project to fit our needs as a club. The main initiatives for this tee project were to create several new forward tees for women and seniors along with expansion/leveling of several other existing tee boxes. The golf course is becoming dated and needs to be updated and modernized in several locations, to benefit golfers at all skill levels. While this project is going to be a nice update to the golf course, it is going to come with a small disruption to play for a period of time. We will be cutting temporary tee box locations in the rough or placing tee markers at the beginning of the fairway on holes under construction. This will only be a small disruption to your round of golf, as the rest of the golf course will remain in fantastic condition as always.
Scope of work:
#1 – New forward tee at beginning of fairway on Right.
#2 – Expand existing forward tee by three times the size.
#3 – Expand and Level existing back tee.
#7 – Expand and Level existing forward tee.
#8 – Move existing back tee 15’ Right and add new forward tee near beginning of fairway.
#9 – Expand and realign all three existing tees.
#10 – New forward tee at beginning of fairway on Left.
#11 – Expand and Level existing forward tee.
#12 – Expand and Level existing back tee with cart path and add new forward/middle tee.
#14 – Expand and Level existing back tee.
#16 – Expand and Level existing forward tee.
#17 – New forward/middle tee near beginning of fairway.
#18 – Expand and Level existing middle and back tees.
The project is scheduled to begin on Tuesday, September 2nd and will be completed in one month if all goes as planned and Mother Nature cooperates. If everything goes perfectly here is what you can expect during and after the completion of the tee project. While this is a fairly large project, we plan to keep disruption to golfers and haul roads to a minimum during the time of construction. The tee box surfaces are going to be seeded to bentgrass upon completion of grading/shaping each tee box and the tee banks will be sodded with new bluegrass rough sod. The bentgrass seed on the tee boxes will require some establishment time and patience as it matures and fills out into a dense stand of turf. We hope to have the new and renovated tees open next season by Memorial Day if we have good growing conditions this fall and next spring. It’s very important that we take advantage of the warm ambient/soil temperatures the first half of September, getting the bentgrass seed germinated and growing. The seed needs this time to establish in order to stay healthy through the winter and finish establishing come spring without a delay.
We are very excited about the vision for the golf course here at Gull Lake C.C. and the completion of this tee renovation project this season. This tee project will come with minimal disruption to the property area as a whole during construction and we hope you will embrace the improvements to your wonderful golf course.
Regards,
Jesse Shaver
Grounds & Facilities Superitendent
No comments:
Post a Comment