Renovation of #6, 7 and 8 (1995)

Some more photos of the 1995 renovation at Leslie Park. Previous editions can be found HERE and HERE.

The biggest improvements to come about during the renovation were centered around drainage. Some of the other improvements were smaller in scope, but impacted play-ability no matter how much rain occurred.

The fairways on #5 and #6 were severely sloped and did not have any flat areas. These two fairways were shaped in such a way as to offer a thoughtful, well struck shot to land on a moderately flat area.

The view from #6 tee before. The fairway slopes from left to right and has a ridge running across.

They have started to shape the ridge.

Here, the tee has been final graded and the fairway is taking shape.

The view from the tee in 2017. If you look closely, you can see the flag on the green, something that could not happen before the renovation.

On this picture of #7, you can see the new bunker in front of the green as well as the trench where the new irrigation line was laid.

#7 from 2016

Here is a before picture of where the current green on #8 is located. It is deceiving, because I don't think there was actually a pond here. It was just an area that held water after rains.

The old green was covered over and an actual pond dug out.

The new green taking shape. The area right above the man's head is about where the old green was.

The fairway was graded and shaped, as well.

#8 green in 2009.

A shot from behind the green in 2011.

April 2018 Weather Summary

As I write this monthly summary, the sun is out and the temperature is pushing 80. May is starting out quite different from April.

This April had an average temperature of 41.9 degrees, up almost 8 degrees degrees from March. This might seem like a lot, but for the past seven years, the average April temperature is 48.1. So we are over six degrees behind that mark. The high temperature was 74.1 (April 12th, which would also be the first time we had temperatures above 60, except for TWO days in February when we hit that number.) The lowest recorded temperature was 16.7 (April 12th.) Nineteen days had low temperatures below freezing (compared to 25 days in March) and every day got above 32 degrees for at least a little while.

We got  2.85 inches of rain at Leslie Park's weather station during April. The rain fell on 12 different days, with the largest amount coming on the 15th (0.84 inches.)  Four days saw more than a tenth of an inch of rain. That brings the total for 2018 to 8.21 inches.

Average windspeed for the month was 3.5 mph. The highest recorded sustained windspeed was 33 mph, on the 4th.