Troy University Athletics
Trojan Golfers Lending a Hand at TCC
3/27/2008 5:00:00 AM | Golf
Members of the Troy University golf teams have been spending a lot of their free time recently in a place most people would expect them to be ? the golf course.
But the work the Trojans have been putting in at the Troy Country Club has been less about their individual skills on the course and more about laying a solid foundation ? literally ? for the future of the Troy University golf program and Troy Country Club.
The Trojans have been spending their spare afternoons laying sod at Troy Country Club, which has been closed to play since early March and will not reopen for play until July 1. Several of the holes at TCC are being completely overhauled, with new tee boxes, reconfigured greens and bunkers.
The project also includes a new irrigation system across the entire course, which will keep the facility in top playing condition year round.
“We feel like it is such a privilege that the members at Troy Country Club have allowed our teams to practice at their facility over the years and we wanted to be able to do something to show how much we appreciate their generosity,” Troy golf coach Matt Terry said.
The Country Club estimates the entire project will cost in the neighborhood of $600,000. According to club pro Tony Mitchell, that cost is being kept as low as possible by the fact that Club members, as well as the Trojan golf teams, are donating their equipment and time to the project.
“We have about 20 members who are doing most of the work on the golf course,” Mitchell said. “They are coming out here after work and on the weekends and donating their time to this project. I've been here for almost 18 years and I have never seen this much excitement around the club.”
A major portion of the project includes moving existing sod from the old greens to the newly reconfigured tee boxes. That is where the Trojans have come in handy ? loading the cut sod from the greens onto trailers and then unloading it onto the new tee boxes.
“With all of them helping, they can sod an area in two hours that it would take my crew two days to do,” Mitchell said. “They have come out here to help several times. The only way to move the sod is with manual labor and they have been a tremendous help. We are a lot further along than we would be because of their efforts.
“We are making some of the greens bigger and we are lengthening the course for the men with the new tee boxes,” Mitchell said. “We are also making the course better for the ladies with new tee boxes for them.”
The new greens, which will be sprigged with tifdrawrf bermuda grass in the middle of April, will be much faster than the old greens.
“The greens were all Bermuda 328 grass that was originally planted in 1963,” Mitchell said. “We are moving the sod from those greens, which is 45 years old, to the new tee boxes.”
While the club appreciates the efforts the Trojans have put in on the course, Mitchell said there are also other benefits.
“It is great to see those young people out here interacting with our members,” Mitchell said. “They bring an energy and excitement about the work and the course that our members love to see.”
But the work the Trojans have been putting in at the Troy Country Club has been less about their individual skills on the course and more about laying a solid foundation ? literally ? for the future of the Troy University golf program and Troy Country Club.
The Trojans have been spending their spare afternoons laying sod at Troy Country Club, which has been closed to play since early March and will not reopen for play until July 1. Several of the holes at TCC are being completely overhauled, with new tee boxes, reconfigured greens and bunkers.
The project also includes a new irrigation system across the entire course, which will keep the facility in top playing condition year round.
“We feel like it is such a privilege that the members at Troy Country Club have allowed our teams to practice at their facility over the years and we wanted to be able to do something to show how much we appreciate their generosity,” Troy golf coach Matt Terry said.
The Country Club estimates the entire project will cost in the neighborhood of $600,000. According to club pro Tony Mitchell, that cost is being kept as low as possible by the fact that Club members, as well as the Trojan golf teams, are donating their equipment and time to the project.
“We have about 20 members who are doing most of the work on the golf course,” Mitchell said. “They are coming out here after work and on the weekends and donating their time to this project. I've been here for almost 18 years and I have never seen this much excitement around the club.”
A major portion of the project includes moving existing sod from the old greens to the newly reconfigured tee boxes. That is where the Trojans have come in handy ? loading the cut sod from the greens onto trailers and then unloading it onto the new tee boxes.
“With all of them helping, they can sod an area in two hours that it would take my crew two days to do,” Mitchell said. “They have come out here to help several times. The only way to move the sod is with manual labor and they have been a tremendous help. We are a lot further along than we would be because of their efforts.
“We are making some of the greens bigger and we are lengthening the course for the men with the new tee boxes,” Mitchell said. “We are also making the course better for the ladies with new tee boxes for them.”
The new greens, which will be sprigged with tifdrawrf bermuda grass in the middle of April, will be much faster than the old greens.
“The greens were all Bermuda 328 grass that was originally planted in 1963,” Mitchell said. “We are moving the sod from those greens, which is 45 years old, to the new tee boxes.”
While the club appreciates the efforts the Trojans have put in on the course, Mitchell said there are also other benefits.
“It is great to see those young people out here interacting with our members,” Mitchell said. “They bring an energy and excitement about the work and the course that our members love to see.”
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