Course Construction

In the spring of 2011, the Board of Directors focused their attention on the golf course and began Phase II of a Long Range Master Plan for the club.  After selecting architect, Tripp Davis of Tripp Davis and Associates, the plan was to restore/renovate the entire back nine green complexes later that fall.  The intention from the very beginning was to protect the Perry Maxwell design and characteristics using black and white photographs from the 1920s.   

“Back in Maxwell’s day, you could get the speeds up to 8 or 9 top on the Stimpmeter, and you could put a pin on a 4.5% slope.  Today, we plan everything on speeds up to 11 and we look at pinnable areas having 3.5% slope or less,” Davis said.  Some of the most noticeable characteristics to a Maxwell design during this time period was grass faced bunkers with linear shapes, and the famous “Maxwell” rolls. 

The projected was completed in October that year with new green surfaces and drainage, green loop irrigation, bunker liners and sand, and fans on every green to assist with the humid summer air.  The greens were seeded with a mixture of A-1 and 007 bent grasses, and are to U.S.G.A. specifications.  The goal is to duplicate this process on the front side greens the following year.

Below are the steps taken for this project: