95 Photo: Tripp Davis Golf course features have been restored to Bill Diddel’s 1950 design (pictured, hole six) Better Billy Bunker for fairway bunkers. We felt like we could more easily keep greenside hazards less firm with ZLine for the explosive shots, while Better Billy Bunker was a better fit for those fairway shots.” Regrassing playing surfaces has been a crucial part of the project. Myers Zoysia has been used on tees and fairways. “At Curtis’s strong urging, all rough has been regrassed with TurfType Tall Fescue, which also surrounds the bunkers,” says Davis. “The course previously had bermuda rough in the sun and fescue in the shade, but winter kill of the bermuda was too common of an occurrence. The Turf-Type Tall Fescue will need a little more care in the summer, but it is much easier and cost effective to reseed fescue in the fall, as opposed to having to resod bermuda rough in the spring, which can tally up to 20 acres some years. The visual contrast between the dark green fescue and the lighter greens Zoysia is striking!” Tees have been redesigned and expanded to provide more options and spread wear. Some have been repositioned to ensure that there are interesting and challenging angles from the back tee, while the forward tee has a more comfortable angle. “Tree removal was an important part of the project,” says Davis. “We were focused on making sure we had good air movement around the course, and we wanted to make sure that fairways were not shaded too much. Tree removal has also opened up the site and exposed the interesting roll the property has.” Other infrastructure work has covered irrigation system upgrades, including spacing of heads and new pipes, and cart path replacements. “While the basis of the project was renewing infrastructure, we worked hard on the details that make the layout more interesting to play – the substance of the course,” says Davis. “We enhanced angles with tees, fairway lines and bunker positions – and when restoring greens, we took some liberty to create angles to old hole locations along the edges of greens. “This is now an enhanced version of the original Bill Diddel design that has a very strong infrastructure in place for many years to come. With some subtle design changes (bolder in a few places), the course will remain interesting and fun.” “ We worked hard on the details that make the layout more interesting to play”
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy NzQ1NTk=