Tee to Green Golf Magazine Nov. 7, 2019 e-newsletter (Vol. 77) TPC LOUISIANA RE-OPENS TO RAVE REVIEWS After a six-month renovation,TPC Louisiana in Avondale is now re-open for play. The course, designed by Pete Dye with help of PGA Tour players Steve Elkington and New Orleans’ own Kelly Gibson, had its first public tee times since re-opening on Nov. 1. The $2 million project focused primarily on re-grassing the entire course.The improvements also included work on bunkers, increasing the size of two greens and adding some mounds to improve the line of sight for tournament spectators. “This has been a long time in the making,” said TPC Louisiana General Manager Luke Farabaugh. “We now have Tif-Eagle greens and Celebration the improvements. “Brandon Reese and the entire TPC Louisiana agronomy staff did an incredible job getting the renovation done on time and under budget,” said Taylor Capouch, who serves at Executive Director of the Kelly Gibson Foundation.“The fairways and greens are immaculate, and the new CONTINUED ON PAGE 16 YANCY’S WORLD-RRECORD WATCH Yancy Methvien (Brookhaven, Miss.) is going for the World Record of golf rounds played in a calendar year, which is currently 878 rounds. As of the end of the day on Wednesday, Nov. 6, Methvien has now played 776 rounds this year and he’s walked all of them. Methvien’s goal is 911 rounds and one the main reasons he is going for the record is to bring awareness to the Veterans Golf Association and more specific the VGA Mississippi. VGA on the web: www.vgagolf.org VGA Mississippi on Facebook: www.facebook.com/VGAMississippi To keep up with Yancy’s world-record watch — www.facebook.com/yancy.methvien Tee to Green Golf Magazine was founded in 1995 by Scott Harrington. Publisher John Price has been with TTG since 2002 and oversees all operations of the publications, which report local golf news from Louisiana, Mississippi and the Gulf Coast of Alabama. For daily golf news, check out the Tee to Green Golf Magazine Facebook Page. These e-newsletters are distributed every two weeks with the next one being on Nov. 21. John Price can be reached via e-mail at TTGmagazine@yahoo.com. No. 18 Bermuda on the fairways.All pot bunkers have new drainage and all bunkers have been restored to the designer’s original intentions.The project came in just under budget and right on time.” Players that were able to get the first few tee times on the course that holds the only PGA Tour event in the state have been raving about
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