Golf Course Renovation on a Budget with Steven Biehl | The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Andy Johnson is joined by Steven Biehl, superintendent at Wolf River Golf Park in Bear Lake, Michigan. Steven led a full renovation of this course that cost just $150,000 and discusses the challenges of renovating on a tight budget. Andy and Steven discuss Steven’s background in agronomy and golf course architecture, the fulfillment Steven found in shaping bunkers, and even how to rebuild a pond. The two then look ahead at what work is left to do at the course, such as creating new forward tees for more to play.
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2 Comments
Played it right after your tweet came out. Place is definitely worth the trip. We played it on our way out of town after playing Arcadia. Steven, congrats on a great job.
My home course (public) could use a lesson on rebuilding a pond without breaking the bank. There is a par 5 on the far south edge of the course where the fairway gets iced over in the winter because of shade. When the course was built, the neighbor on the south (left side of the hole) was a corn field, but when it was replaced by houses the course had to plant trees to screen the houses from hooked and pulled shots. Now much of the fairway is in bad condition all summer because of inadequate sun and snow that never melts in the winter. They need to move the fairway away from the course boundary, but there is an irrigation pond flanking the right side of the hole that would need to be narrowed and maybe lengthened to accommodate the change.