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The Wadsworth Company Newsletter
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Friends and Colleagues—
This past year has certainly been a memorable year for the Wadsworth Company. An uptick in both large and small golf course renovation projects has led to one of the busiest years we have seen in a long time. Our projects included classic restorations, major renovations, new course development and irrigation up-grades that spanned the United States from coast to coast. The consistent battering of tropical storms and hurricanes created some challenges for not only our projects but the people that live in those areas. Our hearts and prayers continue to go out to the thousands of people impacted by the storms. We were pleased to have been the recipient of several awards in 2018 for recently completed projects. Three projects received the ASGCA Design Excellence Award for our work with Greg Martin, Forrest Richardson and Rick Jacobson, all ASGCA members. Congratulations to everyone that worked so hard to make each of these projects a success! The year also brought about the loss of someone that meant so much to everyone here at the Wadsworth Company. Our founder and mentor, Brent Wadsworth, passed away in February at the age of 88, having lived a very full life with his wife Jean and four children Stan, Leslie, Martha and Eric. We at the Wadsworth Com-pany continue to grieve the loss of our founder and will do our best to carry on the vision and fortitude of building great golf courses and relationships. The following newsletter includes a list of highlighted projects that we are currently working on or have recently completed. Do not hesitate to contact any of us should you have any questions or would like addi-tional information about the projects.
Best Wishes,
Patrick Karnick President
ASGCA Design Excellence Award 2018 Winners Baylands Golf Links, Palo Alto, California/Forrest Richardson, ASGCA
The Preserve at Oak Meadows, Addison, Illinois/Greg Martin, ASGCA
Sunset Valley Golf Club, Highland Park, Illinois/Rick Jacobson, ASGCA
The Preserve at Oak Meadows
Keowee Key Golf and Country Club — Salem, South Carolina
A private golf course set in the mountains of South Carolina, Keowee Key’s renovation pro-ject consisted of completely rebuilt tees, fairways, irrigation, drainage, bunkers and greens along with some tree clearing and new cart path work. This golf course was originally built by our company and exe-cuted by a young Tom Shapland back in 1975. Led by Richard Mandell, ASGCA, this endeavor boasted new tees sodded with Royal Zoysia, new bunkers with the Better Billy Bunker system and G-Angle bunker sand and greens sodded with Diamond Zoysia. The driving range and practice facilities were also updated and are already open for play. Despite the record rainfall in April and May, Keowee Key is going into winter almost completely grown-in and on pace for a summer re-opening.
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Keowee Key—Hole # 11
Keowee Key—Hole #5
Willowcreek and Willowbrook Golf Courses—Sun City, Arizona Willowcreek and Willowbrook Golf Courses are part of the Recreation Cen-ters of Sun City (RCSC), one of the largest active adult communities in the United States. Wadsworth Golf was selected to complete our 4th project for RCSC under the direction of golf course architect Gary Brawley, ASGCA and irrigation consultant Marvin Mills.
The project included rebuilding the greens on the Willowcreek course to USGA standards while a new Toro satellite irrigation system was installed on both courses. The landscaping around the golf course was also upgraded with decomposed granite and many varieties of native plantings. The irriga-tion system install was the largest system ever installed by the Wadsworth Company and included 55 miles of piping!
Continual rain interruptions on a complete re-grassing of a valley golf course in red clay is an absolute recipe for disaster…. Wadsworth continued to do what was needed to get the project grassed and ensure their client was happy.
- Richard Mandell, ASGCA
Read more about this ground breaking project HERE
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Bobby Jones Golf Course—Atlanta, Georgia
The ‘renovation’ of the Bobby Jones Golf Course is that of historical significance. The transformation of this original 18-hole John Van Kleek design into a reversible 9-hole course that can also play as a 7,400 yard 18-hole course was originally designed by Bob Cupp. After his passing, his son Bobby Cupp Jr. ad-ministered the design for the Bobby Jones Golf Course Foundation. The golf course includes a state of the art practice facility and the new Georgia Golf House, that will accommodate Georgia State University Men’s and Women’s golf teams, the Georgia State Golf Association and the Georgia Section of the PGA of America.
The New Reversible Golf Course Atlanta’s 2nd wettest year ever recorded provided challenges
Tanglewood Park Golf Course—Clemmons, North Carolina
The championship course at Tanglewood Park is an original Robert Trent Jones, Sr. design from 1957 and played host to the 1974 PGA Championship won by Lee Trevino. The Masterplan as developed by Bruce Charlton, ASGCA, of RTJ II and executed by local architect Richard Mandell, ASGCA, was to renovate the bunkers utilizing Better Billy Bunker to reflect the classic original Jones style while using new dramatic white sand. The greens were also brought back closer to the original shapes and re-grassed with Champion Ultradwarf Bermu-dagrass. In addition, many original golf corridors were restored with select clearing, new drainage was installed for added strategy around green complexes and some cart path and irrigation updates were implemented. The $2.4 mil-lion renovation finished on-time and within budget.
For more information on this finished product, please visit HERE.
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Tanglewood Park—Hole #12 Tanglewood Park—Hole #16
Echo Valley Country Club—Norwalk, Iowa
ASGCA Past President Rick Robbins and Wadsworth Golf completed a greens renovation on The Vale Nine at Echo Valley Country Club. Echo Valley is a 27-hole layout that was built as an 18-hole course in the early 1960’s. In 2004, Robbins Golf Design and Wadsworth Golf completed the addition of the third 9 holes. The recent renovation included the removal of the top 4” of existing mix and replacement with new mix while duplicating the
original green’s contours. Lost green area was recaptured during the project. In addition to resurfacing the Vale greens, a new 21,000 sq. ft. putting green, 3 chipping greens and a short game practice center were built.
Precision greens coring with minimal impact
“Our work with Wadsworth at Echo Valley has been a great experience — very professional! The most recent phase of the work was a tight time table with poor weather conditions and it was handled with great success.
- Rick Robbins, ASGCA
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Yellowstone Club—Big Sky, Montana
The Wadsworth Company completed a two-hole renovation of the Tom Weiskopf designed course at this prestigious private club in Montana. The greens on both holes were reconstructed by removing 4” of material and replacing it with 4” of USGA mix. The bunkers were renovated utilizing the Better Billy Bunker method and the tees were re-constructed with 4” of USGA mix. The re-grassing of all areas was done with cool season turf varieties.
More pictures of this fantastic venue can be seen HERE.
Indian Canyon Golf Course—Spokane, Washington
Indian Canyon is one of four golf courses owned and operated by the City of Spokane. Wadsworth Golf was awarded the contract to complete the installation of a new 18-hole Brian Keighin designed irrigation system. Originally designed by Chandler Egan, the previous irrigation system consisted of a steel pipe and quick coupler system that was leaking substantially. The $2.1 million new system is expected to reduce water use by 30%, saving over 16M gallons of water per year. The new system utilizes HDPE pipe with a Rain Bird Integrated Control (IC) system.
Rock encountered was removed from backfill
WATCH VIDEO of the precision work being completed!
“The work looks great! The finished product looks fantastic and the crew is doing a great job!”
- Brian Keighin
Work areas are efficient in size to allow for proper tie ins
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Country Club of Mobile—Mobile, Alabama The nearly $7 million Jerry Pate renovation to the Country Club of Mobile paid great tribute to the original 1928 Donald Ross design. Steve Dana led the design with all new USGA greens, tees, bunkers and re-grassing of fairway and roughs with new 419 Bermudagrass. Native areas were created with Bahia Grass while an all new state of the art Toro irrigation system was designed to efficiently distribute water. Despite battling through several significant storms, hurricanes and 63+” of rain, the project finished on time. Visit their website at CC of Mobile
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Palm Valley Golf Club—Goodyear, AZ
The Wadsworth Company worked with Design Director Mike Angus of Phil Mickelson Design to convert this 36-hole golf course into a 27-hole golf facility. The conversion allowed for increased development opportunities sur-rounding the golf corridors. The scope of work included renovating the bunkers and tees while adjusting the irriga-tion system accordingly. Cart paths were re-routed and re-grassing of the newly constructed areas occurred. The on-time and on-budget project has gained overwhelmingly positive responses from players regarding the new golf course layout.
CC of Mobile—Hole #1 CC of Mobile—Hole #4
Visit their website PALM VALLEY
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Copper Canyon —Buckeye, Arizona The Troon Golf managed Pulte Homes property of Copper Canyon Golf Club was an exclusive 18-hole club that needed some additional golf and home sites. Schmidt-Curley Design, ASGCA, designed an additional 9 holes ac-companied by adjacent home sites with Marvin Mills completing the expansion of the irrigation system. The $5.5 million project included USGA greens, sand based tees and strategic bunkering. An extensive landscape plan was also implemented along with lake and water features. The Wadsworth Company completed the grow-in of the golf course and the course opened on-time and within budget.
Rock waterfalls were incorporated into the design of the golf course by Schmidt-Curley.
An impeccable grow-in of the golf course was completed by WGCC
University Ridge —Verona, Wisconsin This Top 3 Golf Digest ranked public course, which was originally designed by Robert Trent Jones II and built by Wadsworth Golf in 1990, has called Bruce Charlton, ASGCA, back to the site to renovate the bunkers. Nearly $1 million will be spent to revitalize the already dramatic bunkering at the University of Wisconsin. Better Billy Bun-ker is being utilized with the native Fredonia bunker sand while the overall bunker sizes will be reduced and moder-ately repositioned. The course will play host to the Champions Tour American Family Insurance Championship in June of 2019 as well as challenging the Big 10 as the home of the University of Wisconsin’s men and women’s golf teams.
The completed 16th hole with its many playable options
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Wedgewood Golf Club—Joliet, Illinois Originally designed by Edward Packard and constructed by the Wadsworth Company in 1968, Wedgewood Golf Course has long served the people of the Joliet Park District. Greg Martin, ASGCA, was awarded the task of re-configuring the golf course in order for a parcel of the property to be developed. The alterations to the golf course included re-routing three golf holes. Three (3) new California style greens (Holes #14, 15 &16), associ-ated teeing grounds and all of the bunkers on the course are included in the scope of work. The entire irrigation sys-tem is also upgraded under the direction of EC Design. The nearly $3.5 million dollar project commenced in Sep-tember of 2018 and will be completed in the Spring of 2019. Read more in this ARTICLE
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Chalet Hills Golf Course—Cary, Illinois The bunker renovation at Chalet Hills began in November of 2018 and was nearly completed prior to the arrival of winter. This project, which is being directed by Michael Benkusky, ASGCA, consists of completely rebuilding the bunkers with new drainage, a Capillary Con-crete liner system and new bunker sand. Also, several bunkers are being reduced in size and replaced with newly sodded “roll-off” areas ad-jacent to the greens. With only a few weeks of work left in early-spring, this project should be ready for play in April 2019.
Capillary Concrete being installed in all bunkers
Green surrounds on some holes were re-graded and re-grassed
New bunkering will help reduce maintenance efforts while providing consistent playability
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Eisenhower Golf Course—Crownsville, Maryland The Wadsworth Company will work with golf course architect Andrew Green for the first time to complete a major renovation of this Anne Arun-del County owned golf course that is managed by Billy Casper Golf. The 1969 original Ed Ault designed course is an environmentally sensitive site with nearly 200 specimen trees and several acres of protected wetlands. Extensive permitting is required and is being handled by the project engi-neer. The proposed renovation includes a complete re-build of the golf course including greens, tees, irrigation and substantial drainage improvements. A unique proposed feature is that the golf course will not have any bun-kers but instead fescue grassed hummocks that will dictate the strategy of the golf course. New cart paths and bridges will be installed throughout the golf course. The nearly $4 million renovation of the golf course is the recreational cen-terpiece of Anne Arundel County. New maintenance equipment, club-house improvements and a major creek restoration area are also planned for the project. Grassing is scheduled to be completed by September of 2019. Read more about the improvements on their WEBSITE An article from Club and Resort Business can be read HERE
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Extensive erosion control currently being installed that includes silt fence, reinforced silt fence, diversion dikes,
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The Wadsworth Golf Charities Foundation was established by Brent Wadsworth in 1997 with the original Wadsworth Social Responsibility Program. The vision that Brent had for the Foundation was simple. It was to help grow the game of golf by providing opportunities to the youth, disadvantaged, disabled and military. These opportu-nities become realities through financial contributions that the Foundation makes toward programs and golf facility development. The golf facility developments may include new golf facilities, such as Links Across America, or ren-ovations to existing facilities. The facilities that are developed or renovated should be utilized to accomplish the goal of providing opportunities. In addition to those programs and facilities, the Wadsworth Foundation has recently embarked on a partnership with the American Society of Golf Course Architects (ASGCA) in the development of a scholarship program intended to provide financial support to students pursuing careers within a field related to golf course architecture. The first two scholarship recipients were honored at the ASGCA meeting in Houston last April where they were presented with their scholarships by Eric Wadsworth, President of the Wadsworth Foundation. Since its inception, the Foundation has contributed in excess of $8.5 million to organizations that:
Provide golf programs for juniors, adults and families Benefit facility development Encourage youth development and participation in positive activities Contribute to the development of skills and respectful conduct in sports, appreciation of the arts and refine-
ment of manners, taste and thought Benefit the disadvantaged and disabled persons and provide therapeutic programs
Some of the Foundation’s recent grant benefactors include:
Bobby Jones Golf Club (GA)—Home to the Georgia State Golf Assoc, Georgia PGA and GA State golf teams
Marion Military Institute (AL)—Improving existing golf course for cadets and youths
Lewis University (IL)—Developing a short game practice area / indoor practice facility
First Tee of Charleston (SC)— Providing golf programs to over 50,000 kids
Marionjoy Rehabilitation Hospital (IL)—Utilizing golf for rehabilitation purposes
Freedom Golf Association (USA)—Providing golf to wounded Veterans
Ken Lanning Golf Center (MO) - Short course for Missouri Junior Golf Please contact the Wadsworth Foundation if you need any additional information or you know of a program or project that may fit the mission of the Foundation. Sincerely, Eric Wadsworth, President [email protected] Doug Myslinski, Director [email protected]
Bobby Jones Golf Club
L to R: Eric Wadsworth, Joey Graziani, Eric Pfeifer and Greg Muirhead, ASGCA.
