From The First Call: Beau Welling Design began work in early spring on a comprehensive renovation of Stowe Country Club in Stowe, Vermont. Welling and senior design associate Chase Webb are directing the activity, which will focus on the club’s 18-hole course as well as on the practice facilities.
“As a design team, we are collaborators at heart, and we are excited to be working alongside Stowe Country Club to breathe new life into one of the best golf courses in the region,” Welling said. “This project will make the golf course more approachable for the average player while retaining the precise challenge that members and guests have enjoyed for 70 years. We’re honored to play a role in refreshing this historic club to be enjoyed by the current membership and generations to come.”
The improvements will include:
> Renovating all greens to accommodate modern speeds and enhancement of approaches and surrounds to promote creativity and fun;
> Shaping and regrading of fairways;
> Replacing and modernizing all fairway and greenside bunkers;
> Regrassing tees, fairways and greens with bentgrass and instituting a Kentucky bluegrass/fescue blend for roughs;
> Adding length and width, to enhance the value of approach angles;
> Completing a long-term tree plan to ensure consistent turf conditions throughout the property and further highlight long-range vistas and the movement of the terrain;
> Expanding fescue stands throughout the property;
> Improving drainage on every hole, focusing on known problem areas;
> Securing the water future and sustainability of the golf course through replacement of the irrigation system, new pump station and the addition of a supplemental river pump.
The renovation will take place in two phases to permit ongoing play. Construction on the front nine will occur in 2024 and on the back nine in 2025. Welling and his team are concurrently assisting Stowe with campus planning, including a new golf facilities area, practice area, expanded amenities and a future residential community.
“It’s an exciting time for our membership,” said Michael Harger, general manager of Stowe Country Club and its nearby sibling, The Club at Spruce Peak. “So many of us have a vested interest in this historic course, and it’s been a thrilling process to lay the groundwork for the next generation of golf enthusiasts in the Stowe community.”
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