SaddleBrooke Ranch Golf Community Course Construction Update

SaddleBrooke Ranch Golf Community Course Construction Updates:

• The golf course and practice facility greens surfaces will be replaced with Mini-Verde in a process that will overlap this spring and summer. The process will take approximately 5 months to complete. Annual golfers will receive a refund of the fees for those 5 months in the sum of $1,100. On Monday, May 3rd, Annuals were be suspended and may play the course with temporary greens paying a green fee. Green fees will be reduced while temporary greens are being used. Suspended annuals will pay $10 and residents will pay $15. Chelsea points will stay as they are. In October when the new greens are ready, all suspended annuals will be restored; and green fees will revert to posted rates.
• Monday, May 3rd we converted to all 18 holes having temporary greens. This will last until the new greens are grown in and ready for play. We expect the greens will be ready by the first of October. This date is variable due to weather conditions. Temp green course yardages are posted on Chelsea in a printable format. Most holes will play an average of 50 yards shorter. A spreadsheet with the changes for each hole is posted in printable form on your Chelsea home page.
• During the course of the summer the fairways will be aerified 2-3 times and will also be heavily top dressed with sand.
• Speaking of sand, the practice green bunker has been reshaped giving it a more greenside appearance, while also helping keep sand off of the green. The range field end will still allow for fairway bunker style shots out onto the range field. All the sand was removed while the bunker was reshaped, so it now has completely fresh sand as well!
• On May 12th the re-sloped area on #16 fairway was sodded to about 80%. The remaining 20% was sodded on Friday, May 14th, along with the tees on #16, #18, #3, and the remaining Golf tees. The drainage work areas were also sodded. Finally, the collars on greens #1-9 were sodded. On May 24th and 25th, the front nine greens were sprigged and the collars on the back nine greens and practice greens were sodded. The back nine greens and practice greens are expected to be sprigged during the second week of June.
• Once all the greens have been sprigged, the construction crew will leave. Our maintenance crew will then continue the grow-in process and also continue restoring the fairway and rough surfaces. We hope to improve the fairways and rough areas enough to allow them to be good dormant playing surfaces this winter.

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