Friday, July 5th, Kinloch Golf Club, in conjunction with Landscapes Unlimited, began our summer-long, facility enhancement project. As we travel through the project, please check in for weekly blog posts which will update our progress.
Thanks for all of your support as we are very excited about this project and the product we will offer this coming fall!!!
This is the 7th Week Update!! Sodding and sod prep is rolling!!
Last Thursday, August 15th, we laid our first truck of Tall Fescue. For those that may not know, a truck of sod covers 1/4 of an acre. Since that first truck, we have prepped and sodded 21 trucks of grass, or 5 acres!!!
The sod prep is being handled by Landscapes Unlimited and has been rolling along.
They have stripped and prepped holes 1-8. It is an awesome process to watch. The machine pictured below, strips the grass and conveyors the spoils into trailers running adjacent to the machine.
Once the treated turf is stripped, the soil is raked and a pre-plant fertilizer is applied to the sod bed. After the fertilizer is applied, the sod is installed. Kinloch Golf Club and GreenCor have teamed up to lay almost 5 acres of new grass in the past 7 days.
Aside from the eradication of unwanted grasses, Lester George and Vinny Giles are also introducing some really cool grassing enhancements. When we re-open, all of our bunkers will be flanked by a low-mow, bluegrass. This new look will enhance playability and aesthetics.
So, in the picture below, you can see that the rough which surrounded the bunker has been removed.
As the new grasses are installed, that rough is being replaced with the closely cropped bluegrass.
And while the course improvements continue, the training center is changing daily. This facility is going to be sweet!
