Llanerch Golf Course and External Activities

We started yesterday to remove all the old tile and coping from the big pool. The replacement tile and coping will match the baby pool. We are also going to paint the the bottom of the pool and install a new drain line. We should be finished by the third week of April.

On Friday we started to build the new blue tee for # 16. This tee will add roughly 30 yards to the length of the hole. It will be completely sodded and should take about two weeks to complete. We will keep everyone up to date on when it will be open for play.

Last week we started the process of removing the old slate walkways and installing new paver walkways. They will connect the clay courts to the tennis deck and connect the hard courts to the tennis shop. The walkways will also have lights for better visibility. Depending on the weather (it stops raining), we hope to be done by the beginning of April.

The course has received way too much rain last night and today to aerify. We are rescheduling the aerification for next Monday and Tuesday. The good news is the course will be open the rest of this week. The bad news is the course will be closed next Tuesday. We are hoping (and expecting) next week will be dry.

Starting late last week, we began to apply stucco to the Midway. The goal is for the Midway to have the same colors and similar architectural features as the Clubhouse and the New Pool House. We also plan to install some new flowers around the building. Our scheduled completion date for the project is the first week of April.     

As of today, the Old Pool House has all been ripped down. The contractor finished taking down the walls and is now removing the concrete floor. If we continue to have good weather, we plan to grade and sod the site by the end of the week. The new black fence is still scheduled for installation on the week of the 14th. We will be planting new larger trees and shrubs towards the end of March.  

After rolling the greens yesterday, we are mowing them today. We just felt it was time to give them a "hair cut". This mow is somewhat earlier then years past.  It will take us above four weeks to get them down to our normal greens height but they will putt much better then last week. We look forward to seeing out on the course.

As some of you have noticed, the Canadian Geese have "left their mark"  on the golf course over the winter. Over the next few weeks, we will mow and sweep up their "dropping". It has been a long and difficult battle to control them. For decades, the US Fish and Wildlife Service has enforced rules to protect these migratory birds. They set limitations to what we can do to rid them from the property. In order to both follow the law and control the geese, we have hired an outside company that specializes in goose control. We used them in the fall of last year and had some good results. They will be using many different techniques from shooting off fire crackers to running specially trained dogs to harass the geese.  They have all the required and necessary federal and local permits. We are hoping this will help reduce their population. 

 Today is the start of the demolition of the Old Pool House. The contractor should be done by the March 14th. We will then install a new fence, plant trees and shrubs for privacy.  We will continue to feature more photographs of the progress on the website over the next few weeks. The building has been part of Llanerch since 1952.