Local Golf Notebook, June 7: Another Dataw Island course getting makeover
After renovating its Cotton Dike course last summer, Dataw Island Club has started renovations on its Morgan River course.
The work will complete a $5.4 million renovation of the island's 36 holes of golf, and the course should reopen in September.
Billy Fuller Golf Design of Atlanta is overseeing the work, which includes replacing irrigation, repairing cart paths, coring out, re-contouring and re-grassing all greens, improving the bunkering with new drainage and sand contouring, lake bank restoration, tree pruning and golf cart parking improvements.
According to Brian Hollingsworth, Dataw's director of golf maintenance, the biggest changes will involve three greens that will be adjusted to reflect growth in the surrounding trees.
HHCA'S NIMMER FINISHES 3RD ON HJGT
Hilton Head Christian Academy golfer and Bluffton resident Bryson Nimmer shot a 2-over-par, 74-68--142 to tie for third this past weekend at the Hurricane Junior Golf Tour's Greenwood Junior Challenge at Greenwood Country Club in Greenwood.
HANK HANEY IJGA GOLFERS RANKED HIGH
The International Junior Golf Tour's 2011-2012 season came to a close last weekend at the Tournament of Champions at Grand Cypress Resort in Orlando, Fla., and Hank Haney International Junior Golf Academy golfers fared well in the final rankings.
In the Boys 15-19 Division, IJGA golfers claimed nine of the top 10 spots, and Shosei Inokawa finished in first following four wins in 14 events. Bluffton's Ben Dietrich, a South Carolina commitment, was fifth, and Bluffton's Charlie Spencer-White was eighth.
In the Boys Under 14 Division, IJGA students Daulet Tuleubayev and Lohith Ramaraju finished in second and third place, respectively.
In the Girls Under 19 Division, Hank Haney IJGA students Moyu Sasaki and Ayaka Nakayama finished first and second, respectively. Sasaki edged out Nakayama with four wins and 14 top-10 finishes in 14 events. Nakayama recorded seven wins in 13 events.
HOLES-IN-ONE
This story was originally published June 7, 2012 at 12:59 AM with the headline "Local Golf Notebook, June 7: Another Dataw Island course getting makeover."