If you have had one of the best Golf course maintenance crews in the world, how quickly can you make a complete renovation of the greens?
Thanks to Pinhurst No. 4, we don’t have to ask anymore. The answer, it turns out, is only 11 weeks.
It was the middle of May when Pinhurst no. 4 announced it would be Closing for the predictable future To complete a “complete restoration of greens” – the product of the game conditions under standard “much below” Pinehurst standard.
But according to the resort, the course is now open again, with completely new greens to start, ready for the last days of summer and the beginning of the high fall season.
within A new video Issued on Pinehurst’s social media sources, members of the extraordinary resort agronomy team discussed through the rapid process of flaming the renovation of the greens-and the basic problems that the resort says has now regulated that it should prevent course from issues in the future.
“Before the closure of the golf course, some of the greens really (fought). It started with about 12 of the greens had bare spots on them,” Matt Barsdale, Golf VP and Pinhurst said. “They seemed to be almost lower in certain areas than they really were, and some of them were due to the thinning of the grass and then finally ended up spreading near all 18 greens.”
The closing arrived as a disappointment for the resort, which also closed the number 4 last year for a section of summer US host Openand guests, who have grown more and more loved for no.4 as a The odd counterpart in the championship test at no. 2. But there was at least one group excited by the challenge: the agronomy team, which took advantage of the restoration attempt to make a full tear by installing new irrigation systems under the soda that would extend the lives of new areas of placement installed.
The first step in that process, said Bob Farren, the director of the Golf Course Maintenance, was a laser map of existing green contours to ensure that Pinehurst No. 4 would not lose any of Gil Hanse’s latest redesign. After Laza was complete, the Pinehurst maintenance crews worked with HANSE to ensure that he signed on all the club updated green maps.
Then it came time to go to work. Pinhurst’s crews tried by tearing not only the existing soda but also the sand and gravel down – going “to the base layer”, in the terminology of Farren – to ensure that the renovation project adjusts the basic issue. After installing new drainage systems, the maintenance crews covered the surfaces with gravel, then sand, then soda in the HANSE image.
“You build it in layers, just like building a cake,” Farren said. “Build it in layers, (then) repeat its last surface with laser scanning as well. Then scan it again and evaluate it again at those correct heights.”
After the grass was sitting, the hard work for Pinhurst’s crews began. The resort took sod from an area compared to the growth of the grass on the placement surface-to speed up renewal and reduce part of the durability of an increase. However, the maintenance crews had to take the placement surfaces from the sod to play shape in the space of just a few weeks.
“Although you can check the box, okay, we have built this well green, now we have to start storing it,” Farren said. “Water, nutrition, eating properly, control of the disease, outerwear to cultivate the surface, just as you will keep a green placement in a course that is open.”
After all, the course was in a state of pristine for its August 7 reopening, just 11 weeks after the difficult decision to close – a wonderful joy of knowledge and engagement from the “American Golf House”.
To see the full video that details the restoration process at no. 4, watch the video below.
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