Sod work will conclude Tuesday. We set out priorities to
complete at the beginning of the project and we completed those, plus more,
while staying under the proposed budget.
When we set out to plan for the sod project in early May, we
had to quantify the amount of sod we would need in order to establish a budget.
After walking the entire golf course and measuring every single damaged area, we
estimated that we had 10 acres of damaged turf. We realized that it was not
financially feasible to sod completely, thus, we prioritized accordingly:
1 All necessary areas on holes 1, 10, and 18,
which included tees, fairway spots and approaches.
2 All necessary tee boxes on all other holes.
3 All necessary approaches on all other holes.
By our calculations, this would be approximately 4 acres of
sod, which is about 17 truckloads, and it would provide healthy turf in highly
visible areas, and significant in-play areas.
The natural healing that occurred from the time we first
measured the damage, to when we actually sodded, greatly reduced the necessary
repairs. By the time we finished those three priorities, we had only used 11.5 truckloads.
Our focus shifted to the Bermuda grass soccer field next. We will ultimately
use 2 full truckloads on soccer, half of the final load will be laid on Monday.
This still left us 3.5 trucks under our initial budget total of 17 truckloads,
plus we had completed the repair on the soccer field which was not an initial
priority.
Now, we have made the decision to take the second half of
the load from soccer, plus one more complete truck and complete another area on
the golf course. We will finish the two large, bad areas on #15 fairway and
then take all remaining sod to #5 fairway and repair as much as possible. In
total, we will have used 15 truckloads, worked on 3 areas past our initial priority list, and
As of today, all tee sod is open, and tee markers are back
in their regular areas. Some of the approach sod that was laid most recently is
still to tender too fully open, but our goal is to have that sod open by
Saturday.
From here, we will start another round of sprigging,
which has been effective. We will also start seeding. Both of these next steps
will be in progress over the next month, as we have time, while continuing to
maintain the rest of the property. Have a good 4th of July.
Etiquette Reminder of the Month
Please be aware and careful of new sod.
Also, as part of a Golf Committee initiative to improve
course etiquette, we have included links to videos teaching proper on course
etiquette. Please take a moment to watch:
See you on the course!
Joe
jvillegas@bwrc.org
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