Driving Range Project

The Driving Range project continues to move in a forward direction.  The retaining wall is complete, the irrigation system for the fairway has been installed, plant material on the back slope has been installed as well as irrigation and prairie grass seed mix.  The concrete has been poured for the hitting mats and the foundation for the range house has also been poured.  The next major step is to seed the fairway with creeping bentgrass and sod the rough.  By the 21st of October the majority of the project will be near completion leaving us with asphalt work for the cart path, the parking lot by the tennis courts as well as some landscape work by the retaining wall and the tennis court area.  It's great to see the project nearing completion.  Contractors will easily be here until the end of October and probably into November, but at least the majority of the work load will be behind us.

 Concrete pad for hitting mats

 Kevin Hanson from Hartman Co. Irrigation Installation Specialist

 Irrigation installation on the range fairway

 Installation of the Tennis courts hydration system

 Completed lannen stone retaining wall by StoneScapes

Irrigation system pressurized! Now it's time to seed and sod.

Bunker and Tee Construction Projects

Our staff has been very busy the past few weeks completing the construction of bunkers on 2, 7 and 17 as well as new tees on holes 7, 9 and 17. I'm pleased to say these projects have been completed.  The bunkers, designed by Ron Prichard, have turned out quite nice.  The bunkers on 2 and 17 need to be reconstructed following the loss of American elm trees in both locations.  The bunker on 7 was an additional bunker placed on the inside of the dogleg, in order to make the hole more challenging for the lower handicap player. 

Hartman Companies was contracted to complete the shaping of the bunkers and install the drainage.  All of the finish work, the irrigation changes, the installation of the burlap bags, the rough grading and the sod work was all completed in house.  My main goal was to make sure the bunker shaper was able to construct the style of the bunker to look exactly like the other bunkers we built in '02-'03.  Even though Prichard has designed all the bunkers Hartman was not involved in the renovation and we needed to insure the new bunkers did not take on a look of their own.  I have to say Hartman did a great job as did our staff.  A special thank you goes to Assistant Superintendents Nick Folk and Rick Krause for their leadership with these projects.