April 15

I was looking back through all of the photos I have taken to document all of the stuff that is happening and thought that many of you would get a kick out of the following two pics. The first is a pic of the "Triangle" as I call it (the wetland area that was cleaned out), adjacent to 17 fairway before I had the staff clear out all of the exotics.





and here it is after we took out only the exotics.................................





Its amazing how they choke out everything! In some of the areas in the Triangle, if you were 2 feet away from me and wanted to give me a hundred dollar bill you couldn't. It was that thick!





Well on to the golf course... #7 continues to be the main areas of focus for the dirt moving. This is pic of the new "red" tee. I took this pic in the littoral swale that was cut down behind the tee. If you look real close you can see stakes with red and green ribbons, these are the corners of where the tee will be. Right now all of the teeing grounds are roughed in.





This pic is taken with the camera resting on top of a sprinkler head to represent what existing grade used to be so that you can get a sense of how much fill is being put back to "cap" the course. Remember the grade stakes from before, well some are way up there. Your looking at about 18" of new, clean material to grow the course on.





Speaking of growing the course on clean material, here's a pic of the old bunker sand piled up on the approaches to be used as capping material to make sure they drain really well so that ball will pop up on the green and not plug.





One of the cool things that I got the contractor to do for us is to repair the island between 7 & 9. I had him add some material to the top of the island, raising it almost 2.5 feet, then slope it about 45 degrees down to the water's edge. The plan will be to have the island's old CCN, that you could hardly see, tipped more vertical and done in seasonal flowers so that it can be seen as a prominent feature of the Club. The back side of the island will be planted in bougainvilleas an not trimmed so they put out tremendous color.