All earth moving has been completed for the Bretton Woods
Master Plan. This is a tremendous achievement for the club and the golf course.
It cannot be overstated the importance in persevering through to the end of
this project. No one knows this better than former Superintendent and Current
Assistant General Manager/Director of Grounds, Bryan Bupp. We felt he could
provide a unique perspective having been here for the entire process. Below are
his thoughts on where we came from to where we stand today:
The Master Plan of
Golf Course Renovations was truly a deferred maintenance program. What players
notice are the enhanced design elements, but the meat of the plan has much
farther reaching benefits. To illustrate some of the maintenance benefits, we
have some interesting comparisons from prior to the beginning of the
renovations (2005) and today.
2005 2017
% live turf coverage
in fairways Aug 15: <
50 100
Number of bunkers
needing repair after 1” rain event: 14 0
Labor hours to repair
damaged
bunkers after 1” rain event: 12 0
Number of bunkers
holding water after 1” rain event: 32 0
Labor hours to remove
standing
water in bunkers after 1” rain event: 30 0
Fairways and Tees
mowing days lost after 1” rain event: 2 <1
Average number of
ducks
swimming in 15 fairway after 1” rain event: 3 0,
no puddles to swim in
Greens maintenance
days lost after 1” rain event: 1 0 typically
Turf quality rating on
#7 Green in August: Poor to Ugly Good to Very
Good
At my first day of
class as a turf student at the University of Maryland, my Turf Management 101
professor told the entire class that if anyone could give him the three most
important factors in successful turf management, that student would receive and
A for the semester and not have to come back to class. After a few minutes of
desperate guessing, he told us that nobody was correct. He then listed these
factors on the whiteboard:
1. Drainage
2. Drainage
3. Drainage
The point to this is
that of all the things we see and all the things we accomplished, the most
enduring, most important and most successful accomplishments are Drainage,
Drainage and Drainage.
There is an exciting aspect to having construction work occurring
on the course during the summer. However, the Grounds department is
particularly excited for the summers to come because we will be 100% focused on
maintaining the course and not splitting focus with construction work. We hope
you enjoy the improvements to the course.
Etiquette Reminder of the Month
Please be conscious to not cut corners with your golf cart.
The inside edges of turns are easily worn out after repeated traffic.
See you on the course!
Joe
jvillegas@bwrc.org
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