Removing Trees to Enhance the View

This week our staff removed the trees planted in the island between #9 Green and #10 Tee box.  The Grounds Committee as well as the Board of Directors agreed to have these trees removed to help enhance the view from behind the Clubhouse, and the currently under construction Mountain View Lounge.  These trees consisted of weeping cherry and maple trees, and were planted by the Club in 1997.  As the trees have grown larger over the years they have completely blocked a large part of the view of hole #9, and were only a few years of growth away from blocking the beautiful view of Kennesaw Mountain.  These pictures above were taken from the new Mountain View Lounge, and as you can see removing the trees helped to enhance the view of the golf course as well as the mountain landscape.  For the time being we plan to sod the area to bermuda grass and it will play as "rough".  In the future if the Committee decides to add something in the island such as low growing plants or a water feature it will be very easy to remove the grass.   We are also working on up-lighting a few of the large oak trees in the distance so at night the view from the back of the Club house is greatly enhanced!  More to come on that in the future!