Green News Online May 2009

Landings Course Gets a Celebration "Face-lift" 


Celebration Bermudagrass is becoming the new bermudagrass standard for golf courses across the southern United States. Where it's really catching on is course renovation work. While the golf industry has slowed in the new course construction department, renovations are keeping the sod industry busy. And it's this recent trend that has many superintendents switching over to Celebration.


The latest course to do an "extreme makeover" using Celebration is Deer Creek, an 18-hole Tom Fazio designed course. Deer Creek is one of six courses that make up The Landings on Skidaway Island, a golf community in Savannah, Georgia. The Fazio design team is in the process of assisting in the renovation, which consists of rebuilding greens, tees and bunkers. Fairway and rough grass is also being replaced. Celebration is being used for all of these with the exception of the grass replacement on the greens.


The Celebration Bermuda for the renovation job is being supplied by Green Acres Turf in Furman, South Carolina while the course construction is being handled by Scott Veazey's Southeastern Golf Incorporated. Deer Creek is currently closed for this massive renovation project and is scheduled to re-open for play in October of this year.