The the historic 98-year-old Country Club of Detroit, Grosse Point Farms, Mich., has embarked on a course renovation to rebuild all of its greens and tees.
“We had an agronomy issue with our greens, and that was our number one issue we had to solve,” said Mark Petzing, the club’s general manager. “The more we looked at it and researched it we came to the decision to core out our greens and redo them. There was no other practical alternative.”
While the main assignment is remaking greens and tees, the club is also redesigning and rebuilding the 17th hole, a 472-yard par 5 which will grow by 50 yards. Women members will also benefit from the project as the women’s tees will be redone and newly added tees should make the layout much friendlier to players. (At 5,500 yards par 72, the women were playing the equivalent of a 7,000 yard course from the old tees.)
Some 200 of several thousand trees will also be removed. The club is also allowing the turf on the fairways to die off during the summer months and new turf will be seeded with the greens and tees in September. Petzing said if the weather cooperates the course should be ready for play next June.
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