Your clubs winter projects?

[pigmeister]

We have just had our 11th green dug up due to drainage problems. Work was started on it last monday by contractors. It was dug up, raised a foot(+), three new bunkers dug and the turf goes on this week. It should be ready to play in the spring/early summer. The cost was £25K, as Greensman rightly stated in an earlier post.
Six holes on the J O`Gaunt course are to have their bunkers dug up, reshaped and returfed(this is the 3rd year of a project to do all the bunkers on this course). Also general maintainence to both our courses. This work is carried out by our green staff.
Does your course/club carry out much improvement work through out the winter?
If so, what?
If not, what would you like to see done to your course to improve it?

 

[stevek1969]

Nothing as extereme as that ,re revetting the bunkers covering the pats with turf instead of the gravel as its abrasive and with The Open qualifiying being there in the summer the R&A will be in giving there ideas.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Not sure we have anything approaching that level of work. As our course is only 5 years old its really a case of working on maintaining the new trees planted in the last few years which will eventually add more definition on each hole (and make them harder) and the general day to day work a busy course needs.

 

[big_russ]

Most of our fairway bunkers have been filled in and they are now in the process of re positioning them. Most will be in the same side of the fairway but about 15-25 yards further down. This is going to make you think your way around the course a little more than usual, especially for the player that like to hit driver off every tee. We are also having the remainder of the winter tees built into the regular tee boxes. They are set midway between yellow and whites.
The only things that I would like to see done are the general tidying up of the scruffy areas between green and tees and the areas behind some of the greens.

 

[HCFC]

My course is only 4 years old so very little as you would expect. Just some reposistioning of competition tees on a few holes to increase the length of the course.

 

[Whereditgo]

Apparently sorting out the Tee boxes, which is great as some are like a scaled down map of the lake district!

 

[thecraw]

We should be attacking drainage problems especially at 10 and 11, tidying up the course in general and preparing for next season.

However as usual the greenkeeper will probably sit in his shed all winter doing nothing and the committee will be spineless to tell him otherwise.

 

[brendy]

We have had out 18th green lifted and drainage sorted 2 years ago (as did our 8th which was clay based). Last week our 18th was lifted again as the lower tier was just too severe and could never have a pin located on it. They lifted the bottom level and raised the front by a foot or two and made the slope from the fringe back more severe so finding the lower tier of the green wont mean having to chip on again.

 

[Twire]

The 12th Tee for the ladies is being moved, as it's a little dangerous when some of the big boys try and drive the 11th. But I think that's it for this year. We have a major project that should be starting in the next few years, where a couple of tee's and greens will need to be moved due to cliff erosion.

 

[Spoff]

I've heard there is a course somewhere in Hertfordshire that is having little fences erected round the water features to stop things falling/rolling in.

 

[Faldo_Fan]

We should be attacking drainage problems especially at 10 and 11, tidying up the course in general and preparing for next season.

However as usual the greenkeeper will probably sit in his shed all winter doing nothing and the committee will be spineless to tell him otherwise.

We must be members of the same club!!!!!!!
That's EXACTLY what happens at our place, and our greenkeeper has been there for 20 odd years and is drinking pals with all the previous captains.....you don't need a science degree to work it out!!!!!

 

[viscount17]

we're having the par 5 17th lengthened by 40 - 50 yards, work has already started. last winter we gained a pond as a means of solving a perpetually wet area.

we're low-lying so areas of flooding are to be expected but there are some areas that would benefit from some work, some of the drainage ditches and a seep pond could have done with being cleared ahead of time. some intelligent use of a temporary tee would allow all 18 to stay in play while it was done.

knowing that we will have winter tees, I would have expected work to have been done to at least give us some decent ones. some of the existing concrete-based tees are awful, cracked and broken with lousy mats.

 

[mono217]

Where getting a driving range and new clubhouse

 

[slicedagain]

hey mono where do you play

 

[pigmeister]

I really don`t know what your on about!!! Thats it, bring the nightmare`s back, only just finished the therapy. I should have got them to dump aload of top soil along the bank of the stream to form a high bank..........just incase.
(JOG is actually over the border in six finger country, Bedfordshire).
Viscount, the 17th will be alot better with that new tee. Although i played off a tee that was there originally. I think they moved it when they had all the new cars parked over the fence on the right hand side of the fairway. I think Dave has done and is doing a great job at Wyboston.

 

[matt01]

However as usual the greenkeeper will probably sit in his shed all winter doing nothing and the committee will be spineless to tell him otherwise.

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We must be members of the same club!!!!!!!
That's EXACTLY what happens at our place, and our greenkeeper has been there for 20 odd years and is drinking pals with all the previous captains.....you don't need a science degree to work it out!!!!!

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i must be a member of that course as well

 

[backwoodsman]

Renewing (ie improving drainage) & remodelling bunkers at 8, 11, 13 & 14. Taking one out at 12. That ought to be enough for this winter...

 

[Doh]

We had all our bunkers' referbed last year, just had two new bridges built we are going to shorten the 13th to a target par three which we dont have and change the 12th from a par five to a par four.

 

[viscount17]

pigmeister, I agree Dave does a fine job. the greens are certainly in fine fettle at the moment - don't think that much can be done about the tree roots that break through on 11 without major surgery. It's odd though, 14 which doesn't seem that low has the highest water table.

that extra yardage will bring the ditch(es) across 17 into play a lot more.

given a bit of time the course will be very different once all the planting gets some growth. tighten 15 for one.

 

[Faldo_Fan]

I really don`t know what your on about!!! Thats it, bring the nightmare`s back, only just finished the therapy. I should have got them to dump aload of top soil along the bank of the stream to form a high bank..........just incase.
(JOG is actually over the border in six finger country, Bedfordshire).
Viscount, the 17th will be alot better with that new tee. Although i played off a tee that was there originally. I think they moved it when they had all the new cars parked over the fence on the right hand side of the fairway. I think Dave has done and is doing a great job at Wyboston.

Er!!!......i think you'll find they all have webbed feet and are married to there sister in Hertfordshire.
And lets face it, a sixth finger can always come in handy (except when buying gloves of course).

Regards

Born and Bred Bedfordshire Boy