We’re also going to have a new car fleet, so we’re working on everything around the resort.”īut it’s the greens that will be the most impressive part of the updates. There are going to be a lot of updates, and when we reopen we will have the appearance of a new course. “We went hole-by-hole checking out the edging, the bunkers, the trees, just about everything. The new greens aren’t the only changes on the horizon. Fast greens take away some pin placement options here so this will also help with more variety for pins.” The speed and the Paspalum will also give us more flexibility when it comes to pin placements. We’ll be content to get them 10 to 10.5 or 11. But as a resort course, I’m not sure we need real fast greens. “It’s hard to get a lot of speed with Paspalum greens. He says that golfers will notice the change when they are on the greens, but adds those changes will also open the greens to more pin options. “We’ll only have to aerate them once a year which will give us some operational advantages,” Dutt says. The changes will also help out with maintenance. When everyone was crossing their fingers once summer gets here, this Paspalum will thrive. “And what I really like about it is it can handle the high heat very well. “It’s a hardier grass,” according to Dutt. There is a wide range of reasoning between going to the Paspalum turf. With 23 greens and the average size of the greens being 6,000-to-7,000-square-feet, it’s going to be a lot of turf.” “We’re going to use sod (rather than seeding) and we’re going to do a total of 23 greens-18 on the course, the current practice green, a new practice green, and three greens at the Falls practice facility. “We’re going to start stripping the greens May 1 and strip the old sod off the greens,” he said. The reopening of the course is scheduled for Sept. The changes at Reflection Bay will start May 1 when the course shuts down and the project gets under way. With Bentgrass, at times you’ve really got to baby it. “A lot of golf courses cross their fingers in the summer with all the heat. It’s a little more drought-tolerant and is typically used on coast courses.” The Paspalum will allow the grounds crew to breathe a little easier. “With those water restrictions and water cuts we decided to put a more water-conservative type of turf in,” Dutt says. In fact, there will be changes everywhere on the course but the greens will be the star going forward. That change won’t stop with just the resort course’s greens.
Fast-forward seven or eight years and we’ve got Bermuda coming up through the greens rather than the Bentgrass. “When Reflection Bay reopened in 2014, they did redo the greens but didn’t do an extensive renovation and the Bermuda grass that was in the fairways and rough ran rampant in the greens. “Reflection Bay and The Falls Golf Course shut down in 2009,” Dutt says.
Reflection Bay Golf Club, located at Lake Las Vegas just 30 minutes from the famed Las Vegas Strip, is in the process of redoing all 18 greens at the course that burst onto the Las Vegas golf scene in 1998.Įric Dutt, the manager of operations at Reflection Bay, said the process is costly and time-consuming, but that it’s time-especially with new water restrictions in and around Las Vegas. If you’ve played, seen, or read about Reflection Bay Golf Club, a Jack Nicklaus Signature layout, get ready for a new and improved version set to be rolled out this fall. Photography provided by Reflection Bay Golf Club
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