[will1546]

Greens are great but some tee boxes and collars are bare.

[Blueblaze]

Well, they needed that $5 million to dig up Briarwood, with all its beautiful tee boxes and greens.

[TomSpasm]

We played there 9/22 and were confused as to why the whole course was great but all the t-boxes looked like they had been killed off. We assumed there must have been some sort of mistake made regarding treatment of them, like weed killer sprayed on them instead of fertilizer. The rest of the course is as good or better than any other. We played up there twice in September as a 2some around 9:20 and just sailed around in 3:15, two of the best rounds imaginable in the Villages.

[evfan]

Originally Posted by TomSpasm

We played there 9/22 and were confused as to why the whole course was great but all the t-boxes looked like they had been killed off. We assumed there must have been some sort of mistake made regarding treatment of them, like weed killer sprayed on them instead of fertilizer. The rest of the course is as good or better than any other. We played up there twice in September as a 2some around 9:20 and just sailed around in 3:15, two of the best rounds imaginable in the Villages.

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.

[Topspinmo]

Golf courses are pretty good down here compared to cow pasture hard clay I played on in Okieland.

[Blueblaze]

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.

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.

[TEXJK]

Some of these marshals need to cool there jets had one run up on myself like that on a closed course your a golf course marshal not a armed guard at Fort Knox

[wamley]

Just played Lopez this past Monday 10/30. Greens were spectacular, check the grain direction quite a difference in speed., 1st cut was in bad shape on a good number of holes. Looked like the grass was burned off from either poison or over fertilization. Some having 3/4 of the 1st cut gone. The repaired tees that were sodded were dying off for lack of water and the sod was not laid down properly. It was very uneven and lumpy. They will need to be redone IMO. There were still anumber of tee boxes that were shut down and be scalped, moving the blue & whites together on the same tee box. I'm sure they know what happen because too much damage was caused to not know. Faiways were good, traps maintained. Tees don't bother me too much as you tee up anyway. A little hunt for some level areas on the terrible sod job to put your feet and it was drive away.

[dewilson58]

Originally Posted by wamley

The repaired tees that were sodded were dying off for lack of water and the sod was not laid down properly. It was very uneven and lumpy. They will need to be redone IMO.

Breath, Breath.

Welcome to sod in Florida.

Go back in two weeks and you will smile.

[MidWestIA]

Lopez used to be one of the best I played 11/5 and lots of half dead sod lots of marks in sand it's like they stopped maint compared to other champion courses.