New cart paths

As one of the final touches to this year’s construction on the golf course, we had some new paving done around the clubhouse. The new work tied together access from the Proshop towards the driving range tee, up from 18 green, and out to the parking lot. This was a much needed upgrade.

Particularly after leaving 18 green, the cart path was severely crumbled as well as much too narrow compared to the rest of the paths. We also dealt with a great deal of erosion along the edges of the path. Not only did this continue to degrade the asphalt itself, but it also washed quite a mess of soil, mulch, and other debris down into 18 fairway. When the new paving was done, we adjusted the sideways slope of the path to better control where the water flows. We also filled in eroded areas with fresh soil and re-mulched the area. We have already made it through a couple of pretty intense rain events with virtually no washouts.

Further up the hill, widening the cart path has given drivers much more room to maneuver their carts while staying on the path. In the past, the narrow and bumpy path, led to many people driving half on the path and half on the grass, or avoiding the path and driving on the grass completely. In that particular area, the wear on the grass was especially noticeable as well as destructive. We dealt with higher weed pressure from the compacted soil as well as muddy conditions after rain. Now, there is very little reason to not remain on the cart path after finishing on 18 green.

Visually, completing all of these sections of path has now given a much cleaner look from the clubhouse. Although the entire stretch of path was not redone, all of the worst areas were removed and replaced and tied in with existing path very smoothly. Now, looking out from the clubhouse, nearly all of the cart path you can see is older, but in good shape or is new, including near 1, and 10 tees, which were done last year.

Happy Labor Day.

Etiquette Reminder of the Month

Please rake your entire disturbance within the bunker, including all of your footprints, not just the area from where you hit.

See you on the course!

Joe

jvillegas@bwrc.org