And we have cleaned up the porte-co-chere area. Before, you couldn't see the Club's logo from the road.
Now we have removed all of the overgrown materials and accented the columns nicely with the new palms
The south side of the building has been relandscaped. The hibiscus bushes shown below that were around the south entrance have been transplanted to #12 behind the green.
In their place, I installed Christmas Palms. The idea was to increase the verticality to reduce the building's elevation impact.
The west side of the building has bee relandscaped too. We removed all of the overgrown bushes and palms. You can see on the left side of the pic the old palm that has bent out and has grown up above the eve of the roof.
And replaced them with new material. I added a palm on all of the columns and fresh ground covers.
We have also dressed up the south end of parking lot by adding some landscaping on the Cypress Point side.
The entrance off of Solona is in the process of getting revamped also. Everyone should know by now that we have installed the new golf course grass on the north side of Solona where it used to be all weeds. To compliment the newly grassed entrance, our Golf Course Architect and I came up with a new landscape plan for the sign area. We built a new rock wall around the old sloped flower bed, so that we can "raise" the bed above all of the new landscape grasses we are going to install. You'll also notice that we removed the two black olive trees (transplanted them to the course) and installed some new royal palms. The idea being to have the sign area represent what you will see on the course. Once the grasses are installed around the sign, I'll upload a new pic.
Out on the course it was time to dress up the island between #7 and #9. As promised, the north side was covered with 5 different varieties of bougainvillia. We installed some on the little peninsula on #16 too.
FPL has finally been on site to remove the overhead power line on #16 tees. Now I have to get an electrician come in and run power underground from the pole to the comfort station.
Long before we started with the project, I've been working with the County to see where and what could be improved drainage around the neighborhood. As many of you know, we replaced the old rusted metal street drain pipes that cross the golf course. I was also successful in getting the County to clean the drainage ditch between my building and RP's golf maintenance building, thus draining the box culvert along Solona quicker, and subsequently Burning Tree quicker. Additionally, I was able to get the County to grade the slopes of "the ditch" along Burning Tree Drive, from Cypress Point all the way to Solona. After the County graded the slopes, I installed new sod for erosion control. Now the "ditch" looks a little more respectable.
The coolest thing happening right now on the golf course is the separation of the roughs from the fairways. Folks, it's here.....the golf course is here. First, I paint out all the perimeter cut lines, notice the faint orange lines.
The perimeters are cut first...
Then we mow em just like any other day. PRESTO....you have a fairway. Here you can see the new Silver tee. My plan is to cut the fairways as close to the Red tees as possible so there is not a long carry to the "short grass."
This week we are finishing up on the majority of our projects outside of the golf course. Our next big push is to start dialing in the details. By that I mean, defining all the differnt playing surfaces, getting the greens tuned in for play, leveling bumpy areas, mulching areas, finish planting a few landscape beds on the course, etc. Very, very busy still.....you think there's any chance we could push back opening two weeks? Just kidding!!!
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