Just another day at the office

Research project!

Excellerator (Calcium Silicate) test area.
Applied 50# per 1000 in cart worn area. Will follow up in 2 weeks.
This area is notorious for heavy cart traffic. We are testing this product to help reduce wear in the turf.

New tees on 14

We added approx. 20 new tee marker placements and tripled the size of this tee area.

Sandhill Crane Family

Sad to say that one of the babies is missing this morning (4-18) the day after I took this picture

Collar expansion

Here is an example of how impactive the new collars and aprons are going to change the look of the hole. This is 16, par 3 short hole. The collar is triple in size and the apron is being cut to give the golfer more options around the greens. Next month, we begin the greens expansion. This green will have approx. 900 ft2 added to the back giving us about 15 new pin placements.
The yellow "dead" look is from scalping and will return to green in a few weeks.

Wildlife on the course

Our Sandhill crane Family

Tee expansion project

We are currently undergoing a tee area expansion and "squaring" project. All in an effort to create more tee marker placement and to ease the stress on the tees during season. The square look is a traditional golf course design technique and will add more character to the tee boxes.

Expanding and squaring tee boxes

In an effort to return Vista Plantation to its traditional design, we have begun the process of squaring off the tee areas and increasing their size. This is an ongoing process that will take a few weeks to complete and a few months to fully grow in.

Collar and apron expansions

We have begun the process of expanding the collar, apron and approach cut around the greens

New collar and apron cut on 13 is greening up!

A few weeks ago we started cutting out new collars and aprons around 13 green, this begins our effort to restore the playability that Arthur Hills and Mark McCumber saw in their design in the 80s when the golf course was constructed. throughout the early summer and late spring you will see several greens undergoing this transformation