End of week 2

Day 10 and moving fast.



Contractor is finishing grades on 7. Here is the new blue tee. Careful, the surface is a little rough.





As the project moves along, I'll make sure to get the best of consultants to give their opinion









Even get them to check the playability before it's too late





Here is the contractor putting the finishing touches on the island between 7 & 9





Everyone keep asking me how's the digging going? The truth is, we are hitting some rocks, but we are not running into a lot of rock. We are able to dig out the rocks and keep going. We are using the rocks for the new rock walls on 16 tees and rip rap on lake banks.





I was also asked the other day how we were going to make the bunkers. The contractor has this excavator with a special "grade-all" buckets that is able to rotate like your wrist, 360 degrees. He is able to manipulate the bucket to shape all the curves of the edges. It takes a lot of skill to work this machine.



Here's something off the wall.....this ain't your Daddy's roto-tiller!



This machine is actually used to reclaim roads. It has some serious bite to it.


The thought being that if we get into some very serious rock, we can use this road reclaimer to pulverize the rock into tiny pebbles as seen on this picture taken on #14 fairway.



Here are just some extra pics taken this week.....

8 right green side looking back to front


8 green complex


I forgot to add this one of the old pump being hauled off for rebuild. New one should be reinstalled next week. When they pulled it out it had an old garbage can from the golf course jammed up inside it.


More rip rap on the island


Well its almost 10 pm on Sat night & I'm sleeping in on Sunday. Call Tony is the golf course goes to pot ;)