Pines Golf Course Greens One Step Closer to Completion
The practice putting green at the Pines following sprigging of the green on Tuesday
The city of Toccoa takes another major step forward in getting the city’s nine-hole Pines golf course ready to re-open to the public.
Tuesday, crews sprigged the course’s greens.
Toccoa City Manager Billy Morse said this is the first step in re-growing the course’s greens with new grass.
“We are changing the type of grass that is grown on the greens, going to something that we believe will be much easier for us to maintain, but still create a great putting surface,” said Morse. “It is call Tiff Eagle Bermuda grass.”
New grass is being grown on all 10 greens on the course, the nine holes and the practice putting green.
Morse said that the new grass will take about 60 days to grow in to a golf-ready state.
He said crews will have to work those greens regularly, however, to make that happen.
“During that time period, it will get a lot of love and care, watering, grass cutting, a lot of attention,” said Morse.
While that work takes place on the greens, crews are also working other areas of the course, cutting the fairways regularly and getting the whole course ready for play.
Morse said renovations are also taking place in other areas of the property to prepare for the course’s re-opening.
“We are renovating what is called the pro shop building,” said Morse. “It is much more than a pro shop. There is going to be a grill and a meeting room and nice facilities there for folks that want to possibly have meetings at this location or weddings at this location. We have the new irrigation system that has been installed for the greens specifically. It is coming together very nicely.”
Morse said the goal is still to re-open the course around mid-August.
The nine-hole course off of Black Mountain Road has been closed since last summer when the previous operators, who leased the course from the city of Toccoa that owns it, said they could no longer operate it.