Renovations 4 & 5
The bunkers on 4 & 5 have been stripped clean of all the sand, liner, drainage, and gravel. The grading process has started on 5 and it is looking great! Soon they will be installing new pipe, gravel, spray on liner and bunker sand. These bunkers are called The Better Billy bunker. It is the same style that we have on the chipping green bunker that is close to the cart path at the driving range. Instead of having a fabric type of liner it is a spray on liner that reassembles pavement like in a parking lot. This liner helps with wash outs, improves drainage, and keeps the sand at a good playing quality. This project will be completed before the Dogwood and the players will be able to hit out of the bunkers. The only thing that the Dogwood players will have to use a drop for on holes 4 & 5 will be where they had to sod around the bunkers and approach area. Those areas might be GUR ( Ground under repair) because the sod seems will most likely still be showing but the sod will be tacked down by that time. We will worry about whether it is GUR or not once the Dogwood has arrived.
The wasps in the bunkers burrowing themselves in the sand are called sand wasps. The female sand wasp has a stinger but rarely ever stings unless you step on her. The male doesn't have a stinger so you don't have to really worry about either of them. I am sure everyone has seen these pest when hitting or just walking around the bunkers. This year it seems they are in about every bunker on the course which is similar to me when I am out playing golf. Neal has been out every morning spraying for these wasps and trying to control them. Last year we thought we had tried just about everything but this year we have a new product that hopefully will work.