After nearly one and a half years of construction, the pipeline work and course rebuild are finally complete as of September 2023! Hover over or click on the images for more details on when and where the photos were taken.

The Rebuild

Our long par 4 hole 11 has probably seen the most obvious construction throughout the pipeline work. The pipeline was installed in trenches dug right down the middle of the fairway. This same route was also used as a main road for large construction vehicles to access the rest of the golf course. It may have looked a little chaotic during the construction process but now, you would never know!

During pipeline construction, pretty much the entire area was stripped of turf. All of the drainage and irrigation were decommissioned, and wooden matting was laid over most of the hole as a roadway. Once pipeline construction was complete and most of the rebuild on the lower half of the course was finished, the matting was removed and the ground was reshaped to the same swales as before. All new drainage and irrigation were added through the entire hole and new soil and turf topped it off. It's looking fresh!

 Last updated: October 11, 2023

It's no surprise that the golf course looks a little different when a pipeline is being built directly through it. We have watched the various changes from April 2022 until now and it still kind of shocks us that there is a golf course somewhere under all that construction! Keep reading below to get a peek into some of the temporary changes happening around the course. Hover over or click on the images for more detail on when and where the photos were taken.

Hole #5

Our 5th hole is usually a little breath of relief after the long and tight par 5 hole #4. But these days it is playing a little more challenging! 

The pipeline route crosses from in front of hole 14 green and cuts directly across the width of hole 5 in front of the red tees. The pipe is fed underground to the other side of 96th avenue where it exits our property. This hole will clearly be getting a brand new fairway including drainage, irrigation, sand, soil, and turf. But it also looks like we will be getting a new red tee deck since it is currently buried under the dirt pile in the images below! 

Hole #8

Our 8th hole is technically not being touched with the pipeline footprint but it has sure seen some stuff during construction! Here is a taste of the views from hole 8 looking south towards the green.

Hole #11

This is probably the hole that has seen the most obvious construction since the pipeline runs down the majority of this long par 4. We are not going to sugarcoat it... it looks pretty bad. But the good thing is that it's mainly just dirt that has been moved around so this area will be an easy repair in the grand scheme of things! Before we reopen, this hole will (obviously) receive an entire new fairway with all the bells and whistles bringing it back to perfection! 

Hole #13

Our signature 13th hole has a very different view these days... pumping a drive off the elevated tee deck almost seems like a distant memory! Click through the images below to see the changes from different viewpoints around the hole. You might not be able to tell from the photos but a road has been built over the cart path near the tee decks and it is actually sitting almost flush with the elevated tee decks! If you recall, you used to have to climb stairs to reach these tee decks!

The good news is that this entire hole will get a substantial refresh before we reopen (clearly!). The entire fairway will be brand new including drainage, irrigation, soil, sand, turf and even new cart paths!

Hole #15

The 15th hole might have gotten just a tad easier! Along the left side of the hole, trees were removed from the fairway side of the cart path making your landing area just a bit wider and a little more forgiving. While the pipeline is technically tunnelling underneath this section of the golf course, there is a lot of action on top of the turf as you can see. We will fully replace this fairway with all new irrigation, drainage, soil and sod.

The bunker that you can see in the images below is also being renovated as a part of our bunker project. All of the sand was removed, cleaned and will be stored until just before the course reopens to keep it in pristine condition!

After nearly one and a half years of pipeline construction, we are thrilled to be in the starting stages of rebuilding parts of the golf course, starting with the fifth hole! Pipeline construction is just finishing up on the upper portion of our golf course on holes 9, 10 and 11 but we have been given the go-ahead to start working on certain areas of the lower portion of the golf course. Hover over or click on the images for more details on when and where the photos were taken.

The Rebuild

The pipeline route crossed from in front of hole 14 green (left of hole 5) and cuts directly across the width of hole 5 just beyond the red tees. From this area in front of the red tees, they used massive machinery to feed the pipeline from our property underneath 96th Avenue to the other side of the road. To do this they built a large platform of gravel and dirt upwards of six feet high which is where the large machinery sat. It was a pretty crazy operation. 

As of June 2023, all of that extra material has been removed from the fifth hole and now our contractors can begin rebuilding! The hole needs a lot of TLC with a brand-new fairway including drainage, irrigation, topsoil and turf. We will also be rebuilding a brand new red tee deck because the dirt piles in the pipeline photos below are sitting right on top of the old red tee deck. Whoops!

So far we have reshaped the area to look a lot more like a golf course, added in all of the necessary drainage, installed all new irrigation, and applied the topsoil. Now we are waiting on the turf which should arrive in early July! 

Update July 2023

Project complete! The turf arrived and was fully installed in early July. We have been battling some irrigation issues, intense heat and no rain but we are still in the lead and we are thrilled to say that this first section of course rebuild is fully complete! Now we give it some time and lots of water while we wait for the new turf to mature.

Fifth Hole Enhancements

In addition to repairing the area where the pipeline crossed between the red tees and the 150-yard marker, we also made some adjustments to the end of the fairway closest to the green. If you played with us way back in the day, you may recall that the end of the fairway on hole 5 used to join the apron. Unfortunately, the dip below the green came to be a wet area that was difficult to maintain as a fairway. Over the years, we pushed the end of the fairway back further from the green and turned the middle area into more of a rough. During the pipeline closure, we had some extra time, so we removed the old turf and soil in front of the green, reshaped the area, added drainage, irrigation and sand, and returned the fairway to its originally intended size!

 Last updated: June 14, 2023

After nearly one and a half years of pipeline construction, the course rebuild is finally underway throughout the golf course!  Hover over or click on the images for more details on when and where the photos were taken.

The Rebuild

The 15th hole is the one that has quite possibly seen the most changes. The pipeline was drilled underneath the entire 15th fairway so we assumed that it wouldn't leave too much of a mess. Boy were we wrong! The entire 15th fairway was stripped of turf, levelled, and covered in wood matting for the duration of the pipeline construction while massive pieces of machinery sat on top. Trees had to be removed from both sides of the fairway making your landing area a bit wider and more forgiving. But don't be fooled, with the trees gone, that greenside bunker is looking pretty darn intimidating from the fairway! 

The wooden matting used for pipeline construction was removed in June of 2023, and then the entire hole was reshaped closer to its original look. We laid all new drainage, installed new irrigation, and then covered it all in topsoil and turf. As of August, the hole is mostly completed with some work to be done just behind the green. It's looking fresh!

Fifteenth Hole Enhancements

In addition to repairing the entire fairway, the bunker that you can see in the images above was also renovated as a part of our bunker project. All of the sand was removed, cleaned and put back into the bunkers with a topping of new sand so it will be in pristine condition for reopening!

 Last updated: August 29, 2023

After nearly one and a half years of construction, the pipeline work and course rebuild are finally complete as of September 2023! Hover over or click on the images for more details on when and where the photos were taken.

The Rebuild

Our signature 13th hole went through the ringer. While we knew that the pipeline would be installed in a trench dug through part of the fairway before it tunnelled underneath the green, we didn't expect the entire fairway to become the construction zone it was! 

Prior to pipeline construction, the fairway had some rolling hills to make an otherwise pretty straight hole a little more interesting. Hills aren't great for construction so the entire area was completely flattened. So much ground was removed to make the area flat that the cart path on the right side of the fairway was 6+ feet in the air compared to where it naturally sat before! Post-pipeline, we had to recreate the entire shape of the hole by adding back that right-to-left slope and the swales. 

We laid all new drainage, installed new irrigation, and then covered it all in topsoil and turf. We even got a refresh of the cart paths. After all is said and done, the fairway is now a touch wider and we removed a fairway bunker from the right side, but otherwise, the hole is shaped the same as you remember it.

Thirteenth Hole Enhancements

In addition to rebuilding the entire fairway, we rebuilt the blue tee deck and combined it with hole 17 in a beautiful U-shape. It's kind of hard to imagine but just wait and see it for yourself! 

 Last updated: October 6, 2023