Recent Changes - More to come

[Ron Pittman]

We made some recent changes on the course. Just wanted everyone to be up to speed.

#10
Added a new White tee area. About 60' deeper along the edge of the woods. We can already tell this will give us a better score spread . The club will be purchasing the new tee sign (and the vinyl overlays for the distance changes on the other sign)

# 16
Moved the White tee area back and to the left. About 70' longer. While it made the tunnel farther away, the angle is much wider. The overhead shot is tempting - -- Make it and try for the birdie or a sure 3 -- miss it and ..... well, sorry.

# 7
We finally got the 2 "luck trees" cut out of the middle. Been meaning to do this for some time. Hopefully this will make the hole a bit more fair. We have new White tee markers on the back side of the path (instead of teeing on the weird path) Need to spread the donated mulch pile on 6,7,8 before we can use it.

#18
Still on the "try-out" phase for the new island placement. See the Dec 6th mini thread for a description
BTW, does any body have access to some donated concrete test cylinders?
And, what is your best suggestion on how to mark a permanant OB line?


What is coming?

#13
From the regular tee pads (both white and red) -------the road and left will be OB. We will be marking this soon and changing the sign. And Oh, And, what is your best suggestion on how to mark a permanant OB line?

# 11
The White tee area will be moved up into the grass in front of the walking path. This should shorten the hole about 25'. The spread numbers will actually improve on this hole for both the A and B position. This will make the birdie2 more available.
This won't actually be moved until we either get temp pads or concrete pads put in.

#15
Next summer (only when it is dry) we will be adding a new longer/lefter B placement for this hole. We will only be able to use it when 12 is in the cave, 11 is in it's par 4 position, and it is dry along the left side fairway. Should be a lefty favorite.

There will be 4 more of our existing holes with longer target placements. All will more than likely become a true par 4. Current plan is to carve some of them out of the woods this winter. In no particular order of tasking ---- we will be asking for workdays for holes 2, 4, 5, and 11.

Be sure and spread the word that this stuff doesn't happen by majic, and isn't done by the city. I have always expected that if more knew that help was needed --- then they would jump in.

Thanks,
Ron "now you know what I know" Pittman

[RD]

Well, my first thought for ob lines were landscape timbers, but they warp too bad over time.....then i thought brick/pavers, but i think maybe too skinny and costly.
then the light bulb went off......what about the railroad crossties.
They would be clearly visible from the tees and with a little labor they could be sunk down about 3 inches into the ground. there clean looking.
I dont know what the cost of them is? And could the mowers get around them?
its a thought..........what do you think?
RD

[Ron Pittman]

RD,
Thinking of #13 along the road -- maybe 200' + to mark an OB line.

Assuming the #18 line goes where the yellow rope is now (I used 100' so far and come up real short), I guess we would have near 200' there also.

I'm voting for cheap and no digging.

The only idea I have heard of for such a long space was this;
Take 20' lengths of 1/2" PVC (the thick-walled version)
Cut it in 6" lengths.
Drill a hole through the diamater in the center.
Line them up along your OB chalk line spaced 1' ?? apart.
Drive a nail thru them to hold them.

Never seen it done. The only maintenence would be to weed-eat along the length so they could be seen.

There may be a way to improve on that idea?

In additon, I wondered how you could tell from far away exactly where you went out. I considered that you could paint them with a repeating pattern of bright colors; white, orange, green, red, and so on..... "hey dude, you went out by that green one!"

Ron

[Ron Pittman]

Oh, but to mark the OB around the island on 18, we would want something with some height.

The concrete test cylinders at Idlewild are cooool, but this could be done with any number of other products. RR ties seems easy enuff.

Ron

[bullington]

Concrete test cylinders are free, you just need to know where you can get them.

Ron have you noticed how we used those on #18 at the Sportsplex? We laid them on them sideways and buried all but 2" or so. We place them about 15' apart. They work good for day to day and league play, but we also rope the line for tourneys.

[RD]

bullington,
dont hold back, where do need to look to get free test cyl.'ers?
I had never heard of them till you and ron were talking about them.
Ron,
they are re-usable i take it. after seeing the pics of Idlewild on dgcoursereview.com, i can see they would be great.
to break up a looooong line of them, we could do a line say 15 ft of cyl.'ers....then place a small bush.....15ft of cyl. then another bush.......from time to time your shot might get lucky from not going ob by hitting a bush.........or somthing like that

picture:

/T\~~~~~~/T\~~~~~~/T\~~~~~~/T\~~~~~~~/T\

but then theres the digging, but it may be minimal
you got me as a volunteer.

[bullington]

I know where you can get 1000s in Huntsville, they are very heavy you need to find them in your area. The company in Huntsville is called Qore, maybe they have a banch around Nashville.