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original sand mix in the original green area. To me that was too difficult anyway. On top of that, we are adding organic material to our greens mix anyway through root growth. So, I made it easy on myself and went with a USGA greens mix that was 93% sand and 7% peat. You may not agree but guess what, it worked and the green is amazing. I’m not much for overthinking. Make a plan, execute the plan, move on.
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Step 7: All the greens mix is in and it’s starting to look like a green. Now we start to work on our final float of the surface. Just prior to this we water the sand to pack and settle the sand as much as possible. The final float then allows us to add any additional sand to some low spots. We are now ready for the grass.
Step 8: One of my favorite parts of the project is that fact that we have grown the sod in-house on our own nursery. Most years we generally have 20,000 square feet of creeping bentgrass. Some is newly seeded, some is growing in, and some is ready for a project.
Step 9: We still needed to add some new irrigation to the area. With the larger size we needed to add two additional greens heads and we also added two additional surround heads.
Step 10: Well, we have an additional 2,000 square feet of green. However, my second favorite part of the new area is the addition 2,000 square feet of surround cut area. This is the area just outside the green and provides for some unique shots with the differing topography and roll off areas.
The project took our staff a little over two weeks to finish (April 11th to April 27th). We had a few rain days, and we also did not work on any weekend days. We eventually opened the new area to play on July 4th. It took us a little longer to get the greens height down to where we needed it to be which was 0.120”. I could have maybe pushed it a little harder, but there really was no need to. It doesn’t seem smart to open up something too early just to allow it to fail.
Rush Creek is lucky to have some talented people on the Turfgrass Department staff that allows us to get stuff like this done. Mauricio, Alfredo, Kevin, Cruz, Ranferi, David, Andres, Oliver, Dennis, Betsy and Ben. All their talents make this project easy and incredibly satisfying. We are also lucky to have the confidence and trust of the general manager Derek Stendahl to complete such a project. We dominated. With the success of the 7th green, we then completed a similar addition to our 8th green which we added 2,500 square feet of new putting surface. We are looking to have that open for play in June of 2023.
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