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Scott Warren

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Re: Dismal River II Routing
« Reply #100 on: June 11, 2012, 09:10:50 AM »
Chris,

The way he tells it now, he gave you the golden read that won you a club championship on the 18th green ;D

From memory, it was downhill, about 15ft and breaking to the right.. his read was perfect, your stroke likewise and the rest is history!
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Eric Smith

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Re: Dismal River II Routing
« Reply #101 on: June 11, 2012, 05:05:16 PM »
I love GCA!
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Chris Johnston

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Re: Dismal River II Routing
« Reply #102 on: June 17, 2012, 10:16:32 AM »
12 greens seeded and growing.  check.

6-7 fairways seeded and growing.  check

Main well almost complete.  Proud of the innovation and adaptation on the fly.

Schneider on the road home to be a Dad.  Mahaffey heading back soon.  Think the Chef will be pleased.

Great progress given we have had no rain in 6 weeks and considerable wind.

She's coming to life, and is astounding.

Did a bit of product testing yesterday with Darin Erstad.  He flew #5 green with a 3 iron.  265 yard carry.  Love the bat speed.
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Jaeger Kovich

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Re: Dismal River II Routing
« Reply #103 on: June 17, 2012, 07:08:23 PM »
With all the anticipation on GCA over the 5th major in 2 weeks, thought it would be a good idea to post some proper pictures of the progress... your camera phones dont do justice to all the hard work the team has been putting in the last few weeks. (We logged 82-85 hrs this week)

Mulching #1 at about 8:30pm


#3


seeding #4 green


the full team working another late night on #4 fairway


finishing #5 with a view down #6


#6 green from left


#7 pre seed


#8 green



... Let the comments and questions commence!
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Mac Plumart

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Re: Dismal River II Routing
« Reply #104 on: June 17, 2012, 07:11:30 PM »
Mind bottling!

Thanks!
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Ben Sims

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Re: Dismal River II Routing
« Reply #105 on: June 17, 2012, 09:29:37 PM »
Jaeger,

I'm impressed, and jealous my friend.  The coverage looks great.  Why so much mulch in the bunkers on #8?  #7 looks so different from last year!  But I think I have the first birdie on 7.   ;D

Hopefully I'll get to join you guys this year at some point.  Be safe out there brosef.
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Jaeger Kovich

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Re: Dismal River II Routing
« Reply #106 on: June 18, 2012, 12:37:04 PM »
ben - the green bunker on #8... Mostly due to the wind. We were not 100% satisfied with the coverage we got via our hose, so I gave it a once over with the gun on top our 4000 gallon monster, and the wind whipped a lot of the mist in the direction of that bunker.


... maybe see you soon, if I'm not in Asia when you are here
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Eric Smith

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Re: Dismal River II Routing
« Reply #107 on: June 18, 2012, 12:54:17 PM »
Phenomenal looking pictures, Jaeger. Thanks for posting them!
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Jud_T

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Re: Dismal River II Routing
« Reply #108 on: June 18, 2012, 01:35:58 PM »
Quote from: Jaeger Kovich on June 17, 2012, 07:08:23 PM




Is this Dismal or an outtake from Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
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RJ_Daley

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Re: Dismal River II Routing
« Reply #109 on: June 18, 2012, 02:10:59 PM »
I hope some of you constructors have a HD video camera to document some of this work!  Not that you have much else to do these long summer days in the sand hills.... ::)

I'm sure if you take lots of video footage, that there are some very clever participants here on GCA that could edit it with music background sound and make a documentary sort of geek video that would sell like hotcakes to GCA types. 

What about making a DVD and sell it for a fund raiser effort for a charity, or even commercially for the club to just defray contruction costs?
Whatever the cost would be applied to, I have to believe many copies would be purchased.

I just think that what great photos we already see from those sharing them, that this process is too cool to allow to pass up without further HD dvd documentation. 
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Matt Bosela

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Re: Dismal River II Routing
« Reply #110 on: June 18, 2012, 03:00:48 PM »
Those are some breathtaking photos - I'm really looking forward to seeing this in person next week.
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Jaeger Kovich

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Re: Dismal River II Routing
« Reply #111 on: June 27, 2012, 08:04:47 PM »
Since GCAfest aka the 5th Major is just hours away. I thought it was time to post some updated photos of the grow-in. So feel free to leave the camera phones in your cabins and enjoy these!

#1 (taken less than a week ago... just got its first mow today)

#3 (Its even greener now)

#4 from the forward tee

#5

#7



... and a Dismal sunrise this morning... from a camera phone!
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Dan Herrmann

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Re: Dismal River II Routing
« Reply #112 on: June 27, 2012, 09:31:33 PM »
SWEEET!
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Sam Morrow

Re: Dismal River II Routing
« Reply #113 on: July 01, 2012, 02:01:28 AM »
This place needs to be seen, I might be in the minority but the holes across the road are better than the ones on the side with the Nicklaus.
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Mac Plumart

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Re: Dismal River II Routing
« Reply #114 on: July 01, 2012, 02:40:39 PM »
Sam, I'm with you.

The first 8 holes are going to be crazy good, but the last 10 shift to another level.
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Dan Herrmann

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Re: Dismal River II Routing
« Reply #115 on: July 01, 2012, 06:26:16 PM »
Sam - I also agree..  I think the holes down near the river have the potential to be world-class.
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Dan Herrmann

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Re: Dismal River II Routing
« Reply #116 on: July 30, 2013, 10:17:56 PM »
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JC Urbina

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Re: Dismal River II Routing
« Reply #117 on: July 31, 2013, 12:00:01 AM »
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« Last Edit: July 31, 2013, 12:09:29 AM by JC Urbina »
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John Kavanaugh

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Re: Dismal River II Routing
« Reply #118 on: July 31, 2013, 12:07:19 AM »
With the question deleted my answer is moot.
« Last Edit: July 31, 2013, 09:29:00 AM by John Kavanaugh »
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John Kavanaugh

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Re: Dismal River II Routing
« Reply #119 on: July 31, 2013, 12:29:44 AM »
With the question deleted my answer is moot.
« Last Edit: July 31, 2013, 09:27:54 AM by John Kavanaugh »
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Mac Plumart

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Re: Dismal River II Routing
« Reply #120 on: July 31, 2013, 09:52:26 AM »


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John Kavanaugh

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Re: Dismal River II Routing
« Reply #121 on: July 31, 2013, 10:15:23 AM »
Stu Pospisil does a fantastic job covering golf along side all his other duties at a small paper. I have enjoyed reading his reviews every since my first visit to the region. He is an example of what is sadly becoming a lost profession in the modern age.
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Mike Nuzzo

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Re: Dismal River II Routing
« Reply #122 on: July 31, 2013, 10:47:06 AM »
Well written for sure.
He even included some business details that matter....
Nice work Don.

"The Red will be watered with 1,100 irrigation heads, less than half what was required for the White Course even with super-wide fairways. Don Mahaffey, a course superintendent in Texas, designed the watering system that is being hailed as a prototype for building cheaper and more efficient irrigation. The fairways are the same fescue grass as on the White Course, but the new course uses a different strain of bentgrass."
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Jim Nugent

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Re: Dismal River II Routing
« Reply #123 on: July 31, 2013, 11:05:18 AM »
Quote from: Mike Nuzzo on July 31, 2013, 10:47:06 AM

"The Red will be watered with 1,100 irrigation heads, less than half what was required for the White Course even with super-wide fairways.

Does this mean the Red will use less than half as much water as the White? 
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Chris Johnston

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Re: Dismal River II Routing
« Reply #124 on: July 31, 2013, 10:50:47 PM »
Less water - yep!  Less energy too.

Don and Tom did some very innovative things with the irrigation that Don can explain better if he wishes.  One of the cool things is both courses are tied together providing necessary irrigation redundancy, rather than each having their own backup system.

The look of the Red course will be classic with all of green, yellow, and brown. 

The reception thus far has exceeded expectations and we have a long way to go to maturity.
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