LGD to Break Ground at Westmoor CC

by C&RB Staff (editor@clubandresortbusiness.com)
May 2008
 

Lohmann Golf Designs, Inc. (LGD) will break ground this August on a comprehensive renovation project at Westmoor Country Club in Brookfield, Wis., where all 18 greens will be converted to A1 bentgrass and the layout’s hodge-podge of design features will be unified under a single style inspired by William Langford.
 
The fumigation and regrassing process in the Midwestern summer climate will require an August 1 course closing. With that sort of scheduling mandate, LGD and the club have resolved to 1) to equip the greens with enhanced drainage capability, prior to August 1; and 2) to use August, September and October to renovate the remaining holes in a fashion consistent with steep-faced bunkering and strategic angles at greenside and along fairways.
 
The club’s master plan also includes plans to restore much of the 1st-hole yardage that was lost when Westmoor built a new clubhouse in the 1990s.
 
This spring, a Florida-based drainage company will remove 2-inch strips of green sod before digging 15-inch drainage trenches spaced every six feet in a modified herringbone design. The company will then lay down two-inch drainage tile and refill the trenches with a 6:3:1 mix of sand, soil and peat — an attempt to match the greens’ existing push-up soil profile. The sod will then be re-laid and members will play these greens up until August 1.