[John Keenan]

Curious if anyone knows if this course will ever re-open?

The Moonies have left and I understood that it was being redone but I checked the site today and it still seems to be closed. As one of the oldest coursed in California it would be sad to not see it reopened.

[Brad Tufts]

John,

Tom Doak is doing the redo, there is some info in the archives I believe...

[Tom_Doak]

John:

It will reopen this spring, but I haven't heard a date yet.

[Jeff_Mingay]

Tom,

Of all your "high profile" projects these days, I'm most interested in this "under the radar" redo of Aetna Springs. I've chatted with Geo. Waters a bit about it. Sounds really interesting. I hope to get there to see the course some day, soon.

Best,

[ed_getka]

I look forward to playing the course when it opens. Jim Urbina gave me a tour last year and it looks to be quite interesting.  When you drive up to the property it just looks like a typical Northern California meadow with a little bit of movement and clusters of oaks here and there. As we began to walk the property I began to notice features here and there, a seasonal creek, some abrupt elevation changes, etc... The cool thing is how it seemed like every possible topographical feature was utilized. This 9-holer would be a great site for a future Kings Putter. Some of the smallest greens you'll ever see add to the challenge of this clever little course
    I was most struck by learning that the routing was reversed at some point along the evolution of this project.
    The retention of an old oil sand green was a pretty neat thing I thought. Guess what an old oil sand green becomes over time? Asphalt. I would have never guessed that it was an old green. I would have thought it was a patch of abandoned road or something.
    An added bonus of heading out to Aetna Springs is seeing some of the architecture attributed to Bernard Maybeck.

[John Keenan]

Thanks to all for the updates and info. I am headed up to the Napa area and thought it might be fun to play Aetna Springs.  After reading Ed's comments I am even mote interested in playing it.

Might make for a nice Nor Cal day outing later in the spring after it opens

Thanks to all

John

[Dave_Wilber]

It's turning out very cool.

Dick Rudolph is the superintendent and like so many of the guys I'm blessed to work with he is doing great if not super-human work. Greens, Tees and Fairways are grassed with a Browntop, Fine Fescue, Bluegrass blend (no blue on the greens). It is taking a while to get things growing after many of the areas that didn't get touched by construction still needed to be re-grassed. This spring and summer will be a great time to see it mature, clean up the weeds and the like. I can't wait to play it!

[John Keenan]

Dave any projection when it will open for play?

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