If you had one of the best maintenance teams in the golf course in the world, how quickly can you perform a complete greens renovation?
Thanks to Pinehurst No. 4, we no longer have to ask ourselves. The answer, it turns out, is only 11 weeks.
It was mid-May when Pinehurst no. 4 announced that it would close for the near future to complete a “full greensrest” the product of substandard playing conditions “far below” the Pinehurst standard.
But according to the resort, the course is now open again, with brand new greens to start, ready for the last days of the summer and the start of the autumn high season.
In A new video Members of the Wonderful Agronomieteam of the Resort have released PineHurst Social Media Feeds, spoke through the blazing process of renewing the Greens and the underlying problems that the resort has now solved that should prevent the course from having to prevent problems in the future.
“Prior to closing the golf course, some of the greens real [struggled]. It started with about 12 of the greens had bare spots on them, “said Matt Barksdale, the VP of Gulf of Pinehurst.” It seemed that they were cut almost lower in certain areas than they actually were, and part of it was due to the thinner of the grass and eventually to almost all 18 Greens. “
The closure arrived as a disappointment for both the resort, which last year also did no. 4 for part of the summer to organize the US Open, and guests, who are increasingly fond of no. 4 as a whimsical counterpart of the championship test at the Championship on NR the new putting surfaces installed once.
The first step in that process, said Bob Farren, the director of maintenance of the golf course, a laser card of the existing green contours to ensure that Pinehurst no. 4 would lose none of the most recent redesign of Gil Hanse. After the laser was completed, PineHurst maintenance teams worked with Hanse to ensure that he had registered with all the updated green cards of the club.
Then the time to go to work was. Pinehurst censuses not only became the existing sod, but also the sand and gravel underneath – “all the way down to the base layer” in Farren’s terminology – to ensure that the renovation project has solved the underlying problem. After installing new drainage systems, maintenance teams covered the surfaces with gravel and then sanded them and then in the image of Hanse.
“You build it up in layers, just like building a cake,” Farren said. “Build it up in layers, [then] Also replicate its final surface with the laser scan. Then you scan it again and assess it back to those exact heights. “
Once the grass dropped, the hard work for the Pinehurst crews began. The resort took SOD from a field-in contrast to growing grass on the well surface to speed up renovation and reduce part of the firmness of growth. Nevertheless, maintenance teams had to get the well surfaces from SOD to play in just a few weeks.
“Even if you can tick the box, okay, we have built this green well, now we have to maintain it,” Farren said. “Water, nutrition, good feeding, disease control, top dressing to cultivate the surface, just as you would retain a well green on a course that is open.”
In the end, the course in unspoilt state was for the reopening of 7 August, only 11 weeks after the difficult decision to close – a wonderful performance of know -how and dedication of the ‘home of American Golf’.
Watch the video below to watch the full video with regard to the restoration process at number 4.
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