Golf Simulator slated for Tanyard Creek
POA Board members heard about changes coming for the Tanyard Creek Practice Center at their monthly meeting on March 22. The center will get both new equipment and a new golf pro in the coming months.
The board heard about the equipment at an earlier work session. Last week they voted to approve the purchase. The Flight Scope launch monitor will be inside at Tanyard Creek. It will be used to fit new golf clubs. It includes a golf simulator program which will let members play inside during inclement weather.
Golf Director Phillip Wright provided some numbers for the board. By charging $20 per hour to use the simulator, less than the industry average, the equipment will pay for itself in about five years. The total cost of the system is $17,160. They will get a trade in of $4,000 for the 2009 launch monitor that is currently in use.
General Manager Tom Judson said that Wright has hired a new golf pro who will supervise the facility and give golf lessons. The new pro has not started work yet.
At each meeting, the board gets a report from each Joint Advisory Committees. The JAC’s meet once a month and advise the board on their topic. The Lakes Committee, for example, agreed to a statement against using the recreational lakes for flood storage water. That was one solution the Valley Task Force on Flooding considered, according to presentations given on the issue earlier this month.
There are several problems with using the recreational lakes. The lakes join with Little Sugar Creek past the point where high water does the most damage. Also, since the lakes were not designed to be lowered, it’s difficult and time consuming to lower them. Also if the lakes remain low for long, there would probably be some property damage for lake front homeowners who have added sea walls and
docks on their property.
The next step for the Valley Task Force is another open meeting on April 10 to discuss options, including what will happen to the
closed portion of the Berksdale Golf Course, Judson told the board.
Judson updated the board on several projects. The Five Year Financial Task Force has met twice and instructed POA Finance Director Dwain Mitchell to investigate a number of suggestions submitted by members and employees.
Mitchell is to produce a Return on Investment document for the best ideas.
Judson said the Country Club is close to complete and he has seen Carroll
Electric moving trucks into the Branchwood area. The Branchwood Recreation Center remodel can’t begin until the electric work is complete.