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From their website:
The Grove Park Inn Resort & Spa Golf Course renovation project will restore, as closely as possible, the greens complexes to the same playing characteristics as the original Donald Ross design. This project includes plans to reshape and laser-level the teeing areas and do minor fairway re-shaping on a few holes while converting our Vamont Bermuda fairways to bentgrass.
We have engaged the services of golf course architect Kris Spence of Classic Golf Course Design, Inc. This year Mr. Spence traveled to Scotland where he visited the inspiration for the Ross vision, which resulted in great golf courses across the United States. The restorations of other Donald Ross designs by Mr. Spence have been outstanding. His efforts at our resort will produce an improved playing field for the game along with a palpable connection to Ross's original intent. The general contractor for the renovation is The Course Doctors, Inc., of Hendersonville, NC.
The reconstruction work primarily involves the greens surfaces, the collars, the bunkers, and the areas immediately adjacent. Heat-resistant bentgrass will be seeded. The greens' surfaces will be slightly enlarged and greens will be reshaped to capture the original contour, slope, and pitch. The greens, though as historically accurate as possible, will be modified to accept shots onto surfaces of 21st century bentgrass, which are maintained with modern mowing equipment and irrigation systems. There will be 30-inch collars at each green and the areas adjacent the greens will vary from high rough grasses and closely-mown collection areas, to grass as well as sand bunkers. Bunkers will reflect Ross's selection for position, depth, and grade. Just over 100,000 square feet of new teeing area will be developed. New back tees will be built at holes 4, 9, 10, and 15. Ladies' tees will be enlarged and leveled. Tees will be reseeded with a laterally aggressive, hybrid bentgrass and will be laser-leveled.
Significant changes will be made at four holes. Their renovation include:
#4 will have a new back tee and will play as it originally did, as a par five hole. The fairway will be shored up on the right side to make the landing area level. A fairway bunker will be placed to the right at about 250 yards off that tee as well to help prevent balls from running away into the right rough.
#9 will have the back of the tee box extended to the left, opening up that tee shot to allow more room for a draw. The right bunkers at the green will be removed and the cart path will be re-routed to a less intrusive area above the green on the hillside to the right.
#10 will play as a longish par four. The fairway will be just right of the current fairway, and the hole will play nearly dead straight rather than as a slight dogleg.
#15 will have a new back tee to add 40 to 50 yards at the hole. To open up this tee shot, the thirteenth tee and the fourteenth green will be moved slightly to the right. While this will not noticeably change the fourteenth hole, the move will create a very slight dogleg-left effect at the short par four thirteenth