Harmony Links Golf has completed the transformation of Lamoine Valley Golf Club's sand greens and tees to The SofTrak Commercial System synthetic greens and tees. Lamoine Valley is located in La Harpe, Ill.
The four-week Renovation Advantage project included Harmony Links' redesign, project management, construction, renovation and synthetic turf installation on the 2,568-yard, 9-hole course’s sand greens and tee boxes.
"What Harmony Links Golf has done for our golf course is simply amazing,” said Barry Wright, president of the city’s parks and recreation board said. “They delivered on every promise as they were on budget, on time and were terrific to work with. They were a one-stop shop for our renovation.
"We expect to spend 35 to 40 man-hours a week maintaining our new first-class 9-hole golf facility," Wright said. “And most of that is mowing the fairways and rough. These synthetic turf greens simply need to be brushed and rolled once a week for the first couple of months. After that, the hours/week for maintenance drop considerably."
Terry LaGree, award-winning co-founder of Harmony Links Golf, with 75 golf course projects and 20-plus master-planned communities completed, said, "I tried to compliment Lamoine Valley's layout with green designs that provided a challenge for all levels of golfers.”
Golf course owners considering 18-hole renovations of their greens should consider using SofTrak, which may save them $1.5 million over their lifecycle, says Jeff Hartson, co-founder of Harmony Links Golf.
"As other parks and recreation, municipal, par-3 and executive golf facilities realize the quality of golf they can offer with Terry's design, perfect greens every day and the return on investment they can achieve, which is generally about three years, resulting in approximately seven years of savings, they will want to use our Renovation Advantage to move to The SofTrak Commercial System for their courses too,” he says.
