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Originally Posted by evfan
I talked with a marshal there in the last week or so. Someone applied the wrong fertilizer or treatment to several/many of the tee boxes. Thus the "let's try a flamethrower" look.
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Uh oh... that's exactly what happened when they closed Briarwood. One day green and perfect, next day brown and dead, but only the tee boxes and greens. They called it a $5M "renovation" and said it would be back in operation by October. It's actually been kind of funny to watch. They spent a month digging up all the sand in the bunkers and hauling it away, so they could fill the holes with new sand! Digging holes to fill them up again! And then they did the same thing with the greens and tees. After they killed all the grass, they waited until the weeds started growing, and then they dug them all up and filled in the holes with sand. This week they seem to be resodding everything.
While they were waiting for the weeds to grow so they could dig them up, I decided to walk my dog through there on a Saturday, just to take a closer look at what they'd done to my favorite course. I was almost at the end when an Ambassador noticed me and came screaming across the 2nd fairway on Walnut Grove, through the middle of someone's game, to inform me that I was trespassing (on a course I pay $170/mo to own) and that I needed to get off the closed course for my own "safety". I asked him what the danger was. He said "all that heavy equipment" (which, being a Saturday, was currently parked next to the post station on Legacy). I said, "OK... well, I'll be heading home right up there at Legacy, anyway" (about 200 yards away). "Oh no", he says. "Get in the cart and I'll escort you". So we got in his cart and he drove me 200 yards to the Post Station, for my own safety, and dropped me next to all those dangerous backhoes and F-150's.
It's an endless source of amusement, but now we're halfway through October and still no Briarwood, and the comedy appears to be spreading to Lopez. Not a good sign.