CALABASH, N.C. -- Brunswick Plantation & Golf Resort is wrapping up the renovation of its three nine-hole golf courses, The Magnolia, The Azalea and The Dogwood. They are on schedule to reopen on Aug. 1.
The courses are receiving new putting surfaces and several new tee boxes that stretch the length of each course. In addition to the course changes, the renovations at the three nines involve landscaping, new garden areas and flowerbeds.
"Our intent is to enhance the golfers' overall experience at Brunswick Plantation," said Heather Watkins, superintendent of golf course landscaping. "We've added more landscaping and flowers to make the overall course complex more visually appealing and memorable.
"We are distinguishing our courses by the dramatic beauty of our landscape. In the future, golfers who tee it up at Brunswick Plantation will remember not only the challenge and fun of our courses, but the exceptional environment we have created."
All 27 greens and the practice green at Brunswick Plantation are being replaced with Champion Bermuda grass. The natural contours of the putting surfaces will be preserved, officials said, and the new grass will enable the greenskeeper to maintain very consistent, smooth and fast greens.
"In recent years, numerous golf courses have been making the switch from bent grass to the new Champion ultra dwarf Bermuda grass," said Rob Voughn, golf course superintendent for Brunswick Plantation. "This grass is a great performer and even the PGA Tour likes it. They switched their greens at the TPC at Southwind from bent to Champion in 2005 for the FedEx St. Jude Classic in Memphis, Tenn., so we're very confident that the golfers who come to Brunswick Plantation will be very impressed."
In addition, Brunswick Plantation's management is sprucing up the course by repaving the cart paths, strategically planting trees around the course to define hazards and fairways, reshaping grass bunkers, and removing some sand bunkers.
Brunswick Plantation is a 1,700-acre residential golf resort on the northern end of Myrtle Beach's Grand Strand. The resort's golf facilities include 27 holes of championship golf, a driving range, practice green, and a 14,000-square-foot plantation-style clubhouse with the "19th Hole Lounge" restaurant and a fully stocked golf shop.
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