First three weeks of renovation!

Great Waters renovation has gotten off to a great start! Items of interest for the first few weeks are:

- 900+ irrigation heads dug up in the first week by the Great Waters staff!

- A new wet well was installed at the pump house by ProPump and Controls

- Tree crews have made it from 11 through 18, removing trees for agronomic, design, and safety reasons.

- The course has been sprayed with roundup to avoid any contamination of the new grasses by the      previous variety of bermudagrass.
- Great Waters GCM is removing sand from the bunkers to topdress and amend the soil in problem areas.
- Sea wall work on 12 is finished!

Below are a few pictures that capture some of the progress made over the last few weeks.

Bunker sand being piled up in order to re-use and amend the soil in problem areas in fairways.

Wet well sleeve being installed at the pump-house.

Sleeve for the intake from the lake inside the wet well.

Concrete being poured around the wet well sleeve to stabilize it.

Reviving the blog

So it has been quite some time since our last update to the blog and we are going to give it another go with the new team we now have and the upcoming renovation looming on the horizon. I want to first introduce you to our current assistant superintendents. Notice that I did not say new as they have both been here for quite some time now.

First Assistant Superintendent: Brad Nixon. Brad came to us from the Landing course here at Reynolds Lake Oconee where he was the spray tech for a short time and later the Second Assistant there. Before that he did an internship at the Preserve course during their renovation. Brad got his degree from Piedmont Technical College in Greenwood, SC.

Second Assistant Superintendent: David Fleming. David graduated from UGA with a degree in Turfgrass Management. While in school, he did internships at Ridgewood CC in NJ, Columbia CC in Maryland and Atlanta CC. After graduation he went to Atlanta Country Club as the Second Assistant for two years before making his way to Reynolds as the Second Assistant at our Oconee Course. David then proceeded to get out of the business and work as a farm manager on his family's potato farm in Parrish, FL for six years before coming to Great Waters in June of 2017.

Spray Tech: Daniel Mendsen. Daniel recently graduated from Georgia Southwestern State University where he played four years of soccer, and majored in Exercise Science and Wellness. He previously worked at Lane Creek Country Club in Bishop, GA on the maintenance staff for five years. Daniel did intern  here at Great Waters in the summer of 2017 before going back to school to finish his degree.