Paving

BA Blacktop has been at KGC for the past 2 days and finished their part in paving the cart paths. We had to close the front and back nines on different days to limited interference between the paving crew and the players. Each day the paving crew shows up on your door step it costs over $7000 so it was to the clubs advantage to make sure the pavers could work without any interference. Everyones understanding with the respect to inconveniences caused by the paving project is greatly appreciated and will be, hopefully, rewarded with a nice smooth ride!

Hot mix had to brought to the paver from staging areas since the tandems could not access areas within the golf course


Loaders travelled across certain areas on the fairways with the only real damage on #6 where there was severe rutting.


This just shows the amount of equipment needed to do even a tiny project like KGC just did


End result

You can go to www.kimberleygolfclub.com/news.html to understand how we chose which areas to core out and completely re-do versus "over paving". There remains numerous spot that still need repairing but it is probably wise to look at paving cart paths as an on going maintenance process versus a one shot deal as long as we are dealing with trees and their roots. Now that paving is complete the grounds crew will spend the season tying in the edges and cleaning up all the seemingly random piles of debris left all over the golf course.

Fall Paving

This falls project has been the renovation of select cart paths on the golf course and repaving a portion of the parking lot. You can go to the KGC home page to see a description of the cart path portion of the project. Most of the work was done after closing so I'll post some pictures with descriptions here.
The earlier weather impacted the paving contractors work schedule at other locations and, as a result, the work that was suppose to be completed by the contractor on the golf course was pushed back until spring 2010.

We began by removing the old pavement and digging out the roots causing the humps in the cart paths.

We used a chain trencher to cut any roots next to the paths with the hope of delaying any damage to the paths in the future. We then hauled 200 tonnes of road crush with our utility vehicles to fill in all the excavated cart paths on the golf course. Work then stopped and will begin again in the spring with final grading and paving of the paths.

The project that was completed involved paving a path to the members cart storage area and repaving the parking lot by the Johns cart storage to add more parking spots.