Aim:
- Shorten the Blue and White tees to provide greater variety of length (this should assist in bringing the White course rating back to 72)
- Change the angle of the Blue and White tee to bring the right bunker more into play
- Enlarge the Red tee and incorporate the Green tee into the teeing ground
Proposal
- Relocate Blue and White tees to the right hand side of the path behind the Red tee – elevated above the height of the Red tee
- Teeing area to be around 20m long by 10m wide
- Red tee enlarged to incorporate the Green tee and widened slightly
- New suggested distances: Blue - 156, White -148 (approximately 1 club more than the 4th hole)
- Bottom tee on the left of the path is to be retained as an over flow tee – top 2 levels to be removed
Work
program
- Approximately 6 trees to be removed
- Garden bed and seat behind Red tee to be relocated
- Pipe placed under tee to take water run-off – this would be connected to existing pipe under the path
- Fill placed in area of tee to create an area elevated above the Red tee
- Teeing area laser levelled
- Irrigation installed – approximately 8 sprinklers plus pipe and valve required
- Turf from existing tees used to turf as much of the new tee as possible – remaining area seeded
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I think this is a great idea, however would it be possible to provide a diagonal (or wider) teeing area such that we could change the angle into the green from nearer the current angle to even wider that proposed.
ReplyDeleteAgreed - and could we think about a swale through the green - it is pretty flat
DeleteCan you expand further, are you suggesting remodelling the green with more slopes on the green.
DeleteWith the width of the tee, we are restricted by the throw of the tee sprinklers which is around 15m. We plan to make the tee as wide as possible and extend in a line behind the ladies tee. We feel that this change in the angle to the green will be quite significant.
DeleteSimon - the G&G is doing a great job
DeleteYou asked for expansion of my swales point.
MCC course was built in a hurry and on the cheap - and as a result some of the greens are pretty flat and boring e.g. 1st, 2nd, 7th, 17th. By comparison, the 6th and 18th are rippers.
I raised this matter when I was on the G&G a few years back and the answer was basically that there is a huge amount of work that goes into their construction, with layers of small rocks, then gravel, then different soils - on this basis, the answer was No Can Do. I said that I wasn't talking about the whole green, but that say if 25% of a green was lifted and re-packed to create a swale then the whole character of the green would change.
I figure you guys have the energy and brains to at least see if any other clubs have been able to do this - it must be a reasonably common problem.
A good idea. We could also play the 13th off the actual white markers now and again so it is not the same length as the 17th!
ReplyDeleteEwan Higgins
Hi Ewan, the tee markers on the 13th are often placed at 170-175 metres to reduce the wear around the ladies teeing area which is also at the 166 mark. After the shortening of the 17th hole we could look at bringing the white markers on the 13th back to just over 170 metres.
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