Bunker construction update

     After Art's visit on Friday Schaefer-Meyer is busy making adjustments to bunkers and getting down to final shaping.  They worked on holes 10, 14 and 16 yesterday.  They will continue work on 10, 11 and 13 today.  Art will be here on Thursday to make any adjustments or to approve Schaefer-Meyers work.  Once approved drains and liner will be installed.  Bunker sand is next followed by final grading and sodding.  Hopefully rain stays away or we do not get a lot of rain on Wednesday so Schaefer-Meyer can continue work.  Mother Nature has been kind to us Schaefer-Meyer has worked 13 out of 14 days so far.  I hope they can keep going with minimum interruptions.  Here are a few pictures of yesterdays progress.

 #10 green

#14 green



# 16 green

Bunker update

     Art Schaupeter was out today making adjustments to the bunkers on holes 10, 11, 13, 14, and 16.  Now we are getting down and dirty.  Next week we will have the exact location and shape of each bunker.  We are getting real close to having these holes completed.  Art will be back next Thursday for final approval for these 5 holes.

 Art inspecting # 11

 Art and Schaefer-Meyer construction crew talking over # 14

# 16

New tee

    We  mowed our new # 9 white tee/nursery green today.  We mowed it at 3/4", we will slowly bring the height down to 9/16 " for the tee portion and 1/8'' for the green portion.  This will happen over several months.  I hope to have tee playable by the end of May.

Bunker update

     Today Schaefer-Meyer worked on holes 11, 14 and 16.  They cut in new bunker on 11, and shaped bunkers on 14 and 16 greens.  Tomorrow they will be working on the fairway bunker on hole 16.  Art Schaupeter will be here tomorrow to inspect work and make any changes.  Once the bunkers are where Art wants them Schaefer-Meyer can start to installing the drainage.

 Cutting in new Bunker # 11

 Shaping # 14

# 16

Bunker update

     This is day 9 of our bunker reconstruction.  Sorry I did not get a tweet out today I was just too busy to stop and do it.  Things are starting to shape up.  They have 10 and 13 ready for Art to look at on Friday.  He will make final changes if needed.  Once the bunker is way he wants it they will begin to install drain lines.  They will be working on 11, 14 and 16 tomorrow and Friday to get ready for Art's inspection.  Here are a few pictures of 10 and 13.

 Bunker # 13

 Right bunker # 10

Left bunker #10

Bunker update

     Today Schaefer-Meyer cleaned up the sod from 16 rough and 10 green.  They dug out the drainage on 10 green.  They started to do a little shaping to # 13 bunker.  Tomorrow they will have full crew doing nothing but shaping.  Art Schaupeter will be here Friday to make any changes to the bunker shaping.

Sod removed digging out drain lines # 10.

Removing sod from # 16 rough

# 16 sod all gone

Shaping # 13

Bunker update

     Today Schaefer-Meyer was working on holes 13, 14, and 16.  They removed all old drains and pulled sod out that they cut last Friday.  They did a little shaping of the bunker.  They need to make sure bunkers will drain if we get rain before they can finalize the exact location of new bunker.  Bunker floors needs to slope towards drain outlet.  Art Schaupeter will be here on Friday to make final changes to shaping on these 4 holes.  You will see that a lot of sod has been cut around all bunkers, some sod was cut all the way to edge of greens.  They have to over cut sod so they can do the reshaping.  They will be taking and adding soil where they need it or don't need it.  Bunkers will not be at the edge of greens.  A lot of them will be a little closer than they were.  Art will gives us the room we need to mow and maintain our greens and surrounds.  The hard part of all of this reconstruction is to make the new bunker match our current green location.  Art's job is to make sure everything transitions from green to perimeter to bunker to rough.  When they are done you would have thought this is the way it was designed from the beginning.

Digging out old drain lines.  They load material in Skid Loader then take it to Dump Truck to be hauled away

# 13 roughed in

 

Working on rough shaping # 14



# 16 roughed in