Llanerch Golf Course and External Activities

The 18th Restoration is moving along quickly. With all this unseasonably warm weather, the grass has started to grow roots and "fill in". We have been spreading sand and rolling the green and new fairway to continue smoothing out the surface. We have already mowed the green over 15 times! More sod will be installed on the right side of the rough next week.  

Today we trenched the wet area on 1 fairway. The Greenkeepers are installing 4 inch perforated pipe with pea gravel to catch the water. It seems that the water is coming from a spring in the middle of the fairway. We hope to get all the drainage in today before Wednesday's rain. We will sod the trench line some time next week, weather dependent.

As we start a new week today, I thought I would blog about the planned activities on the golf course. First, Countyline Fence started installing the new fence on Steel Road this morning. The Assistant Superintendents are focusing on mowing, rolling and sand topdressing the 18th green. The Greenkeepers are still working to clean up the leaves. We also plan to trench in new drainage for the 1st fairway. I will post some updated pictures later. Enjoy the great weather!  

Our contractor is wrapping up the project today! They are finishing installing sod and compacting sand in the bunkers. Some of the bare areas in the rough will be seeded Monday. Some excess soil left over from the project will be used to fill in the stump holes. We are going to give the new sod some much needed water and fertilizer to promote root growth. I hope you like the end result as much as we do!

Starting yesterday, the construction crew began sodding the 18th green complex. They have installed bentgrass for the fairway extensions, low cut bluegrass for the intermediate cut and turf type tall fescue for the rough. They also installed some fine fescue on the bunker edges. We plan to finish sodding by tonight but might need to purchase a small quantity more next week to fix some construction wounds. 

The construction team is finishing the drainage in bunkers and installing the white bunker liner in all four bunkers today. They are also preparing the site for the placement of sod that arrives tomorrow morning. The Grounds Crew is rolling and topdressing the greens sod. This will help smooth out the putting surface in the future. We are still planning to be done sodding by Friday evening. We will still have some minor clean up that we will complete later. 

The 3 inches of snow stopped work on 18 for the last three days. Our contractor is bringing extra labor in today in pursuit of " catching up".  We will be putting drainage in all of the 4 new bunkers and preparing the site for sod. I hope to have a new update by the end of the day.