 Hello, I'm Nancy Button, Director of Golf with the City of Fort Worth. Today I'd like to talk with you about the golf course construction that's currently underway at Rockwood. The project began on November the 2nd, 2015 and is projected to reopen for play to the public in October of 2016. Rockwood was originally open for play in 1938 and since that time very little improvements have been made to the course. Compared to the new design, course issues consisted of inadequate drainage and irrigation systems. The greens were the original push-up greens and we knew a new course was necessary to attract the modern-day golfers. This all led to the need to redesign the course with new tee boxes, new greens, irrigation system, drainage system, cart pass, and many new water features on the course. Basically this is a brand new golf course. The design of the new course was led by John Colligan of Colligan Golf Design. John and his team paid special attention to the original design by John Breedemus and retained as many of the original greens designed as feasible. And now I'd like to introduce John and he'll be discussing the design of several of the new holes. This is John Colligan, I'll be walking you through a few of the holes just to give you some indication as to what we've done to the golf course and plan to do the golf course to make your rounds more enjoyable. Hole number two will become a 537 yard par five. It will be a very dramatic hole from both a strategic and a risk-reward standpoint. The hole will start from where the current number two green is located and play down current number three corridor. There is a fairway bunker on the left-hand side at about 300 yards and this will set up the strategy for the incoming shot either a layup or an attempt to make it to the green with about a 210 yard carry over the water and a 240 yard carry to the green itself. This is a photo of the existing hole. As you can see, it is very flat, there have been some drainage issues over the years. It's built in a floodplain. We're going to address the drainage problems. And then this is the picture afterwards. You can see the water guards, the front of the green and the right-hand side. So the player will have the option from a strategy standpoint of either laying up short of the water and then approaching the green or going forward in two. The third hole is placed to the same corridor as current number four and should be a much stronger hole than four is now. While the hole is only 378 yards from the back tee, there are several new strategic elements that will make this hole more memorable. There is a bunker in the middle of the fairway about 260 yards from the back tee. This will give the golfer an option of going down the right-hand side and having a short iron into the green or laying up short of the bunker with a utility club or three wood. In addition, there is a fabulous view of downtown Fort Worth behind this green. As you can see, this is the existing hole number four and again this will become hole number three. You can see the great view of downtown Fort Worth in the background. And then when the hole is completed, this is the bunker in the middle that was referred to at about 260 yards which can be laid up to or you can play down the right-hand side for the best angle into the green. There's a little wider option on the left-hand side. But this should be one of the very dramatic golf holes as most of the holes in the course will be though. Hole number seven is going to be the shortest par-four in the course, playing at about 304 yards. The hole is in the same corridor as hole number two, but instead of playing down the hill, we've reversed it and it's going to play up the hill. The golfer is trying to reach the green. We'll have to navigate about five bunkers on the hole being a short hole. This is something that shouldn't be too much of a problem for most of you. The percentage play will be to hit a utility club or long iron, leaving you with a short iron into the elevated green. The very long player could hit a driver to this green, however. So again, this gives you many options and many strategic opportunities. This is the whole plane backwards looking from number two green up to number two T and the green will be located up in the area of number two T's location now. And then this is what it will look like when completed. Then an iron, mid iron to long iron or utility club left of the bunkers on the right would be the percentage play and then the stronger player could go forward into number eight is a completely new hole to Rockwood. It's going to be played down the hill. There's approximately an elevation change of 40 feet. And again, this hole is going to offer some great views in the distance to Will Rogers, Coliseum, and Pioneer Tower. While it's really a short par three being from the back T's 153 yards, there's a crosswind and it's downhill so you'll have plenty to contend with along with the bunkers on either side of the green and short. This again is going to be, as you can see on the as perceived slide, one of the more dramatic holes with Will Rogers and the Pioneer Tower in the background. John, as we move to the, as we're moving to the back nine now, correct me if I'm wrong, but this number 15 hole used to be the old number two on the Trinity Blue Nine that went away back in 2007-2008 time period. Exactly Nancy. Well, the entire Blue Nine back in the day was a very strong nine, but we were able to recapture this particular hole and we made it a little bit shorter. We backed it off to 196, which is still plenty long, but from the back T, you know, it only plays 126 from the forward T. So it's not not as intimidating up front as it is from the back, but it is a hole that you can see, you know, it's become overgrown over the years, but you can tell where the old green used to be situated across the tributary to the river. And then our plan is to just recapture it, have a bunker on the front right that sort of guards if you want, if you will, a Sunday pin position back right, but it should prove to be, as it was before, a very attractive golf hole and one that's very interesting to play. And I think it's important to note on this that there's only one bunker, this two, right of the new green, because this hole does play extremely long from the back. So there was really no need to add any hazards in front of this green. Right, right. Okay, we'll move on to the 18th hole and the modifications that were made there. You know, 18 is a new hole at Rockwood as well. It'll play to a length of 560 yards, play slightly uphill and into the wind, which will provide a nice test to finish the round. There are two fairway bunkers on the left hand side at 250 yards and 280 yards from the back tee. The golfer has the option of laying up just short of three fairway bunkers that jut into the fairway from the right hand side, or the other option is to try to fly the bunkers and get closer onto the green. The final hole, again, as all the others, has a classic breeder mist style green, and hopefully one day we'll have a new clubhouse sitting in the background. And this picture here, John, is one of, I believe that's number 10, actually looking, in reverse right now, so we're actually on the green or to the right side of the green a little bit, looking back at the clubhouse. So this hole is actually going to play in the corridor of number 10 as well, so adding length to that as well. And then, as I mentioned, these are the three bunkers that you can either lay up short to, or you'll have the option to carry and either get across and close to the green or onto the green, but should provide for a very exciting finish for everybody. And I think the golfers will be pleased with the respect that we paid to the breeder mist that you and your team have paid to the breeder mist design, retaining some of those design of the greens or the outlines of the greens and so forth and so on. So I know you and your team did quite a bit of research on the front end. Right. And again, that's, as you mentioned in earlier slides, it's one reason we're going to modify the golf courses that, you know, the technology of the game has changed. People are hitting the ball further, not necessarily further straight, but left and right. And so that's why we're trying to maintain very, very generous corridors. And again, just make it something that's fun to play. Our motto is golf should be enjoyed, not endured. And we hope that everybody finds that to be true here at the Rockwood course when it's complete.