SEA SPRAY SOD NOW AVAILABLE FROM WEST COAST TURF

Truckee, Calif. – Ground has been broken on The Club at Gray’s Crossing, a new 18-hole project from Jacobsen Hardy Golf Course Design. Set on terrain above Lake Tahoe, the club will serve as the exclusive members course for Tahoe Mountain Club, a real estate/resort community developed by East West Partners.

Peter Jacobsen, who is the 2004 U.S. Senior Open champion, will oversee the design of the private course scheduled to open in 2007. Jacobsen also serves as director of golf at Tahoe Mountain Club, which includes two courses: Old Greenwood and Coyote Moon.

The 18-hole design – being built by Weitz Golf International – features a mix of open meadow holes combined with mountainous hole settings cut from thick stands of lodgepole and ponderosa pine.

Higher points on the property are influenced by a water flow off the mountains. At the 185-yard par-3 eighth hole, Jacobsen Hardy is working with Alliance Golf of Indiana to harness the flow into a recirculating, rock-strewn waterfall that sits just left of the putting surface.

The course will measure 7,534 from the tips, 5,139 from the most forward tees.

The entire course will be sodded next year, partly because the course is located at an elevation of 6,000 feet.

Old Greenwood – a Nicklaus design opened in 2004 – also was sodded tee to green, according to Joel Blaker, director of agronomy at Tahoe Mountain Club. West Coast Turf will custom grow a bluegrass mixture for Gray’s Crossing starting this September, Blaker says.

For Gray’s Crossing, Jacobsen Hardy and Blaker specified a mixture of five bluegrass varieties: Award, Liberator, Midnight, Unique and Rugby.