An Extreme Makeover At The
Toro Irrigation Systems Overcome Challenges In Major Renovation
T
he Broadmoor calls it the
Mountain Golf Course, and
for good reason. The 7,700-
Rebuilding From The
also wanted the new course to have the
appearance of having been in place since
the creation of the original property in
1918.”
Ground Up
The decision to renovate the Mountain
Course was made in 2003. The
yard 18-hole course in Colorado Springs
is perched on the side of Cheyenne
Mountain with dramatic views in all
directions. But, this stunning attribute
also has a negative side. Through the years
since the course was built in 1975, it has
been plagued with problems related to
landslides, erosion and generally deterio-
rating conditions.
“On some areas of the course, it looked
like a mini earthquake situation where
the land fractures,” says Fred Dickman,
Director of Golf Course Maintenance at
The Broadmoor. “In 1999, we actually
had to close the course when we received
The Broadmoor began
Broadmoor needed the course to handle
rounds for guests at the 700-room hotel
as well as 600 private members. Play had
been consolidated onto The Broadmoor’s
two traditional venues, the East and West
Golf Courses, designed by Donald Ross
and Robert Trent Jones Sr. respectively.
“With the history of the course’s land
stabilization issues, a lot of questions
needed to be answered before we were
going to build a new one,” Dickman
explains. “But the engineers who studied
the property laid out guidelines for the
golf course architects, and then it was up
to the architects to find a way to lay out
the course within those guidelines.”
“The idea was not to restore the
working in collaboration with
Nicklaus Design. Due to the
topography, mountain sites can
be challenging pieces of ground
to build 18 good holes. “Our
architect, Chris Cochran,
came up with a great
design,” Dickman
relates.
Irrigation Selection
Offers Flexibility
Since the engineers
and architects were
17
inches of rain in the month of April.
extremely sensitive to
land movement issues,
the irrigation selection was
paramount. “We needed
That’s as much as we usually get all
year,” he notes. “It caused so much land
movement that we were forced to close
nine holes.”
original course, but come up with an
entirely new plan,” says Dickman. “We
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