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City park Baton Rouge
Posted on 6/13/23 at 7:16 pm
Posted on 6/13/23 at 7:16 pm
Something is going on at city park. They got in surrounded by orange fencing and they have some sigh out advertising the developer (which I can’t remember).
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Posted on 6/13/23 at 7:47 pm to BRsundog
Course reno? That would be sweet. Great piece of property and a Tom Bendelow course. Bring in Andrew Green!
Posted on 6/13/23 at 8:29 pm to BRsundog
They've been cutting trees down and putting in cart paths last couple times I've been out there.
Posted on 6/13/23 at 8:39 pm to BRsundog
Cart paths. Need to blow up the greens and start over, dredge the canal, remove foot golf, move the tees around so that the same box doesn’t just get absolutely worked over until they finally move it.
Posted on 6/13/23 at 8:49 pm to Bawpaw
I just want big, puttable greens. Right now, they are small and unputtable.
It could be amazing with just a little effort.
It could be amazing with just a little effort.
Posted on 6/14/23 at 7:34 am to The Johnny Lawrence
They are dirt and poa. When the dirt dries up it creates these horrific little ramps and valleys to try to putt through. Used to love going out there for an after work loop. Now it just makes me sad how incompetent BREC is. Last time I went there were three people working in the pro shop and two guys working carts and one guy sleeping in a rolling chair in the maintenance building and another outside on smoking a cigarette. Their employees outnumbered their cart fleet and golfers on the course at 4:30 on a beautiful April Friday evening.
Posted on 6/14/23 at 8:06 am to Bawpaw
Obviously blow up every green and start over with bigger greens with bold contours. Use good grass that can actually be maintained as greens as opposed to the poa that is there now.
Would have two pins per green like they are doing at Clark.
Expand the current tee boxes to make them bigger where they currently sit.
Remove all the bunkers from the entire course.
Wall to wall fairway grass. No rough.
I would expand 1 green and 8 green to where they connect and have a big, double green there.
Trim the trees back on 3 so you can actually land a shot in the fairway.
Level the tee boxes on 7.
I'd either add a big bunker (I know I said no bunkers) where the big tree used to be. Or I'd dig the lake out more and create a smallish portion of the lake towards where the tree used to be. When the tree was there, the options were there and you had to think about how you wanted to play it. Now that the big tree is gone, it's driver over the trees to the big part of the fairway.
Add back the old tee box on 9 and make it internal OB so you don't have people hitting 3w at the blind green.
Would have two pins per green like they are doing at Clark.
Expand the current tee boxes to make them bigger where they currently sit.
Remove all the bunkers from the entire course.
Wall to wall fairway grass. No rough.
I would expand 1 green and 8 green to where they connect and have a big, double green there.
Trim the trees back on 3 so you can actually land a shot in the fairway.
Level the tee boxes on 7.
I'd either add a big bunker (I know I said no bunkers) where the big tree used to be. Or I'd dig the lake out more and create a smallish portion of the lake towards where the tree used to be. When the tree was there, the options were there and you had to think about how you wanted to play it. Now that the big tree is gone, it's driver over the trees to the big part of the fairway.
Add back the old tee box on 9 and make it internal OB so you don't have people hitting 3w at the blind green.
Posted on 6/14/23 at 9:00 am to BRsundog
I was out there 3 weeks ago and they had dug up 7 green and were presumably replacing it. That's all I got.
Posted on 6/14/23 at 9:08 am to BMoney
Is there a BREC golf master plan?
Posted on 6/14/23 at 10:18 am to The Johnny Lawrence
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Is there a BREC golf master plan?
I'm sure there is, but I'll be damned if I can find anything about it.
Posted on 6/16/23 at 1:45 pm to BMoney
I emailed brec. This was their response:
Anything you see now at City Park is related to paving the cart paths. Everything on the LSU side of the railroad tracks was paved in April. We’re now finishing up the rest of the cart paths on the Highland Rd side of the railroad tracks. I believe they’re doing a pour Friday morning that should get them near having all the cart paths paved.
About 3 weeks ago we added drainage to the 7th hole green at City Park and sprigged it with new TifEagle grass. We expect it to be grown in and open for play near the end of June. This project has gone so well that we may do the same with another putting green there this summer. We did have a golf course architect give us some ideas about City Park, but that was just for planning purposes, there's major work currently planned at City Park.
The putting greens at Webb Park and City Park have had problems with invasive grasses that are becoming resistant to herbicides. We are trying some new ideas at both places to eliminate these grasses, but that may result in less smooth putting greens until we can get the Bermuda to fully fill in. We’re probably going to aerify the putting greens at City Park on June 19th and aerify Webb on approximately July 10th.
Back in 2014 BREC had the National Golf Foundation do a review of our operations. The NGF provided a large and detailed list of recommendations that included closing Howell GC and either Dumas or Clark golf course. They also had recommendations on course maintenance, staffing, and other items. That 2014 NGF report has worked as the basis of our plans from 2014 to now. It has in effect been the master plan.
We’re now at the point where we’ve accomplished most of the 2014 NGF recommendations and we’re looking at developing a new master plan for the BREC golf courses. This will likely coincide with a new overall BREC master plan that will be developed for 2025-2034. I’ll let you know if I have any information on how the new Golf master plan will be developed.
Thanks,
Anything you see now at City Park is related to paving the cart paths. Everything on the LSU side of the railroad tracks was paved in April. We’re now finishing up the rest of the cart paths on the Highland Rd side of the railroad tracks. I believe they’re doing a pour Friday morning that should get them near having all the cart paths paved.
About 3 weeks ago we added drainage to the 7th hole green at City Park and sprigged it with new TifEagle grass. We expect it to be grown in and open for play near the end of June. This project has gone so well that we may do the same with another putting green there this summer. We did have a golf course architect give us some ideas about City Park, but that was just for planning purposes, there's major work currently planned at City Park.
The putting greens at Webb Park and City Park have had problems with invasive grasses that are becoming resistant to herbicides. We are trying some new ideas at both places to eliminate these grasses, but that may result in less smooth putting greens until we can get the Bermuda to fully fill in. We’re probably going to aerify the putting greens at City Park on June 19th and aerify Webb on approximately July 10th.
Back in 2014 BREC had the National Golf Foundation do a review of our operations. The NGF provided a large and detailed list of recommendations that included closing Howell GC and either Dumas or Clark golf course. They also had recommendations on course maintenance, staffing, and other items. That 2014 NGF report has worked as the basis of our plans from 2014 to now. It has in effect been the master plan.
We’re now at the point where we’ve accomplished most of the 2014 NGF recommendations and we’re looking at developing a new master plan for the BREC golf courses. This will likely coincide with a new overall BREC master plan that will be developed for 2025-2034. I’ll let you know if I have any information on how the new Golf master plan will be developed.
Thanks,
Posted on 6/16/23 at 2:33 pm to BRsundog
That’s damn good info
Posted on 6/16/23 at 7:45 pm to BRsundog
Ansley Park is a great 9 hole layout in Mid-town Atlanta wedged into a small footprint in a nice neighborhood. Unfortunately, that's where the similarities end. Its a 110 yr old, old money private course kept in great shape and seems to have an unlimited maintenance budget and a low number of rounds.
The budget to do something even approaching that is a pipe dream, but City Park could be the jewel of BREC if they followed thru with some of the suggestions in this thread and actually maintained it.
The budget to do something even approaching that is a pipe dream, but City Park could be the jewel of BREC if they followed thru with some of the suggestions in this thread and actually maintained it.
Posted on 6/18/23 at 12:32 am to The Johnny Lawrence
Master plan? Yes, ruin anything we touch.
Posted on 6/21/23 at 2:23 am to BRsundog
The “green” they’re replacing on hole 7 was literally just the invasive grass trimmed short when I played it a few weeks back 
there was no point in putting
there was no point in putting
Posted on 6/26/23 at 3:01 pm to The Johnny Lawrence
quote:
Add back the old tee box on 9 and make it internal OB so you don't have people hitting 3w at the blind green.
Aww come on.. I got my first eagle in middle school doing this.
Posted on 6/26/23 at 3:09 pm to BRsundog
I am no course designer by any means but a 18 hole par 3 course would be pretty sweet, and I think it would get more traffic. Although I don't think there is enough room.
Posted on 6/26/23 at 4:52 pm to Pintail
I could get to 12-13 par 3s on that layout.
Posted on 6/27/23 at 6:04 am to Pintail
Lighted as well. I used to play a Par 3 course on the army base in Hawaii. Damn that was so much fun at night.
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