Click on the link below and redirect to YouTube to watch the video from my site visit to Kalamazoo Country Club. This is where we are getting our 100 year old greens sod from for our expansions.
Working through the site logistics cutting, stacking and hauling the greens sod with Lyle and John.
Lyle Young from Young Turf Services, John Fulling Director of Property Operations Kalamazoo CC, Me, Not pictured GCIP Committee Chair Mike Meindertsma
One of the greens at Kalamazoo ready to head north on Monday September 15 and 16. KCC is undergoing a property wide renovation and are currently growing in a new par three course as well as an entirely new golf course. All of the greens will be sprayed with round up and dozed under in a few weeks.
Back to Traverse City where the greens mix started arriving on Friday morning of the holiday weekend.
The first load of greens mix went to 11 green.
11 green front right with the greens mix installed.
11 Green back right with the greens mix installed. The mix is 10 inches deep and needs to be watered and compacted. The Kalamazoo sod starts arriving pm on the 15th.
Installed greens mix on 11 green looking back down the fairway.
11 green back and left with the greens mix installed.
17 approach left. The mounds were softened and this will be fairway.
17 green left expanded area.
Two green expansion and approach mowed out to tie into the collar.
We needed the construction team to build us a few bridges so we could keep the greens mowed and spray them last week.
Three fairway expansion and the removal of the first two bunkers on the right. It looks like the one closest to the green will remain but be ticked closer to the green.
Fairway expansion left, bunker expansion where the sod was removed.
Three green expansion looking back down the fairway.
I saved the best photo of the week for last. Check out the back of 3 green now!!!!
