They’re smoothing the bentgrass at the Blacksburg Municipal Golf Course and watering the fairways readying for the long-awaited May 1 opening. While the redesign has brought a top-of-the-line course to the top of the hill (with fantastic vistas of town, horse pastures and a sea of Appalachians beyond), they’ve also incorporated summer-blooming wildflower swales, bluebird boxes in the pines. One hundred sixty young cherry trees line the drive.
“The wildflowers adds color, it’s good habitat for birds and bees, and any place we don’t have to mow, is great,” Jeff Kleppin, general manager said. “We moved two greens so we could preserve the old oaks on Palmer. We think we’re doing it right.”
See “The Hill ready to host area golfers” by Marty Gordon in Sports.
— Staff report
