Lido Golf Club letter details extent of course and clubhouse repairs

Lido Golf Club put on a little weight in the offseason -- 7,000 pounds, to be precise.  And that's just in grass seed. 

Then, speaking of thousands, there's 4,000 -- as in the amount of square footage rebuilt to bring back a working clubhouse.  These figures and other course updates were distributed in an e-mail letter from Lido staff to "loyal customers and neighbors" via e-mail and website over Memorial Day weekend.

Lido reopened for play in March, a remarkable feat given it was a mere four months since the course was submerged by the Atlantic Ocean and Reynolds Channel during Hurricane Sandy.  Saltwater damaged areas of the course, destroyed the clubhouse and wiped out Lido's fleet of golf carts.  Today the greens are "healthy and in excellent condition," according to the staff, and the fairways -- slowed by a cold season unkind to all spring growth -- are rebounding fast enough for a summer revival.

Also around the course:

• The staff is renovating two to three bunkers per day, filling each with new sand.
• Fairways, collars and rough have been core aerated and seeded.  This process will likely be repeated later this season.
• The course's three wooden bridges were repaired.
• Golf carts have been replaced with new models.

Extensive repairs to the clubhouse included rebuilding the pro shop, bathrooms, offices and kitchen, and replacing all computers and kitchen equipment.

Golf On Long Island's Anthony Dimino revisited Lido earlier this month.  "Out of everything around the course," he said, "the greens were in the best shape."