Southwind Turns Green for the Winter

Southwind Turns Green for the Winter

This year TPC Southwind decided to try something different for the winter. Over the past few years Jon and I have seen several courses that have painted fairways and tees green for winter play. We felt like this would be something very unique for Memphis. So this year we took on this challenged. From the Member comments, I would say it was a BIG success. The contrast between fairways and roughs looks like you are playing a desert course.

Here are a few pictures of the final product.

HOLE # 1

HOLE # 3

HOLE # 13

The process is very similar to what we have done on the greens for the past 10 years since converting from Bent to Bermuda. The results were even better than I expected. In the picture below we are tying in the approaches and collars with a hand wand. We were able to boom spray all of our approaches which help save time. The tees were also sprayed with hand wands.

This last picture is showing you how we painted fairways and the difference just one application makes.

Stay tuned for more updates and our current winter projects currently on going on the course!