#7 Hazardous Tree Removal

A fir tree completely rotted on the inside that was only showing small fungal conks up on the tree

The goal of the project work on #7 fairway this year was to help guide play further to the left side of #7 and away from #6. To that end we decided to significantly lib up the trees left of the cart path in hopes of providing golfers a better chance of finding & punching out a ball hit into the trees on the left hand side. This is a mature stand of trees and we did not want to remove them.

Through that process though, our arborist discovered that in fact the largest of the trees (6 in total) had either significant signs of rot or other fungal fruiting bodies that are signs of internal rot. When climbing one of the trees for the planned limb work, a discovered internal cavern starting about 20’ up the tree was so dangerous we actually removed our crews from the surrounding area until the tree could be removed. You may also have noticed that we diverted all golf traffic out of the area until the trees could come down as well. These issues could not be spotted from the ground. Below you will see a video of the cavern that was discovered in the tree closest to #7 green.

Now, I won’t tell you that losing the large trees front left of the green doesn’t make this a better golf hole. I believe it truly does. As we bring a large excavator in to remove the trees and stumps we are also going to roll the rather large rock away from the line of play as well. Another improvement.

Developed within the master plan are areas that we are able to re-plant trees over time and we are working with both the arborist and architect to determine desirable species and specific planting plans for these areas. Below is a clip of the last, and largest of the trees coming down.