Reduced Cup Changing
The nine hole locations on the practice putting green at Aspen Golf Club are now only changed once a week, as opposed to two to three times a week. The club annually hosts approximately 30,000 rounds of golf on the 7,908-foot-elevation mountain course. The cups are placed slightly below the turf level so the edge lasts much longer. The cups are plastic, but the plans are to replace them with the new-style zinc practice green cups so the sound of the ball going into the cup replicates the metal regulation cups out on the course. Superintendent Dominic Lanese III and general manager Jim Pratt, PGA, are a great team working closely together. Jim Sivess, former superintendent at the Snowmass Club, is the president of the Aspen Golf Club advisory board. Frank Hummel was the original architect and Dick Phelps and Rick Phelps have been the remodeling architects over the years.
Recycled Flower Boxes
During COVID-19, the City of Aspen, Colorado, Parks & Open Space Department built and placed decorative flower boxes outside restaurants in the downtown area so diners could safely enjoy the great outdoors. Two- by 6-inch boards measuring 12 inches by 4 feet placed five high were glued and screwed together with two 4- by 4-inch boards used as feet to keep them raised off the ground. Solar-powered night lights were also installed on one side. The flower boxes have been recycled and are now used at the Aspen Golf Club to provide added beauty and aid in the control and direction at the golf cart staging area and along cart paths adjacent to the practice putting green and clubhouse. The planter boxes are filled approximately one-quarter with potting soil placed over a false bottom with holes drilled in them for drainage. The parks department plants the flowers and golf maintenance waters them. Dominic Lanese III, superintendent, and Jim Pratt, PGA general manager, came up with this great idea. Jim Sivess, former superintendent at Snowmass Club, is the president of the Aspen Golf Club Advisory Board. Frank Hummel was the original architect and Dick Phelps and Rick Phelps have been the remodeling architects over the years.
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