The Honors Course made a wise decision last year.
And the results are paying off.
Following the trend of golf courses across the Southeast, the Honors killed its bentgrass greens last summer and replaced them with Champion Ultra-dwarf Bermuda grass, which thrives in hot conditions, especially compared to bentgrass.
“I’m really surprised that they’re as good as they for being as new as they are,” said Paul Simson from North Carolina, who has been a Lupton Invitational champion as a mid-amateur and is the defending senior champion in the Lupton Memorial tournament. “Everybody is raving about the greens and how good they are. They’re not any easier. They may be a touch more difficult.”
Simson leads the senior division after the first round of the 2014 Lupton Memorial after earning 41 points in the Stableford system Friday. Indiana resident Ted Smith leads the super-senior division with 39 points.