MAITLAND course superintendent Damien Murrell hopes to have the club’s two new greens open by the end of May, more than a year after they went under water in last April’s superstorm.
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The club is still using temporary greens on the 2nd and 10th and rebuilding bunkers.
“When the greens went under they yellowed off and just died. They came back, but it took months,” Murrell said. “They got contaminated with another soil.”
He said the greens had been bulldozed and rebuilt by course construction company Golf Spectrum.
“We lifted those greens up three quarters of a metre to a metre higher, to hopefully avoid those greens going under in the future.”
Murrell said player numbers had fallen during the reconstruction but were beginning to pick up again. He said the greens should return to their best before the club’s championships in October.
“We’ve still got paths to redo from the damage. We’ve had two bridges reconstructed, and our creek at the 18th has been reworked to slow the flow of the water.”
