GCIP ground breaking ceremony prep with six gold shovels.
GCIP chair, Mike Meindertsma addresses the very well attended
event with 30 members, management, staff and the press.
President Michele Cerny thanks the group for their attendance today and Steve Hammon for his leadership and passion for the golf course renovations.
Green committee chairman, Brandon Theophilus talks about the committee and board partnership and fortunate the club is to have Renaissance Golf Design and The George Lay Company as our GCIP partners.
It was a fabulous turnout!
Mike, Todd Stern project foreman from the George Lay Company, Steve and Brian Slawnik from Renaissance Golf Design.
Brandon, Todd, Steve, Michele, Guy, Brian.
Back to the renovation pictures!
Three green expansion with the greens mix installed and final shaping has started.
The construction company is prepping the areas of disturbance around many of our tees. The sod will be stripped off, the tee will be reshaped, laser leveled, irrigation heads lowered then resodded and open for play soon after.
More fairway expansions, this one is left of 12.
Irrigation has been installed on our new nursery green. Next up is smoothing the outside perimeter with topsoil, then we will be sodding the outside edge with Kentucky bluegrass from around one of the tees they are prepping, like the photo above. This nursery green will be sodded with the grass from Kalamazoo.
This is 400 ton of greens mix delivered to the club house parking lot. They have three orange haulers, one shown here in the background. They have a very light foot, they are quiet and and are extremely efficient with a cool turning radius when they dump.
Besides having the Kalamazoo CC sod being shipped up next week, this is the other amazing part of this renovation. Many of our current fairways are being shortened for better site lines and playability. The area right of 10 green was marked to be turned into chipping area vs. rough.
Removing the rough grass on the right of 10 green.
Rough grass removed and we used it to sod over the tree removal/stump areas that didn't grow in very well from last falls tree work.
Just like that, from Kentucky bluegrass rough to soil then transported sod from 11 fairway. Roped, watered and waiting to be plate compacted and mowed soon.
Kind of odd but my eye keeps catching this one unique spot. Just at the top right of the approach on 17 where the bunker slope, the expanded approach short grass, a strip of future rough along the approach and bunker, green bank rough, the future collar and the expanded green all come together at the top.
10 approach expansion and it been sodded already. The left side bunker is being expanded into the approach to match the right bunker.
