Category: History

Golf Course Maintenance Spring 2019

April 8th and 9th Harmony will deploy a new piece of equipment for greens aerification. The machine, known as a “deep tine” or “verti-drain” aerator is capable of making deeper holes to penetrate the various profiles of material that make up USGA greens. The tines are 5/8” in diameter and 9” long which produce an aerifying depth of almost 8”. Now water will be able to move deeper through the greens profile to subsurface drainage, creating space for … Continue readingGolf Course Maintenance Spring 2019

Harmony’s Clubhouse – Ready for Construction

After years of steady membership growth, Harmony Club is approaching the originally-projected 360-member benchmark that supports the construction of its clubhouse building.  In a fairly counter-intuitive move, Harmony did not start out the now 12-year-old golf course development with a club house as is the more traditional, “build it and they will come,” model.  Rather, in step with developer Byron Collins’ characteristic and methodical “slow can be faster” mantra, Harmony is finally enjoying critical mass both in terms … Continue readingHarmony’s Clubhouse – Ready for Construction

A Man and his Dirt

  The land Harmony sits on was graced with natural beauty from the very beginning; far enough away from the foothills to afford the most spectacular views, possessing of natural topography that allowed those views to express their in-your-face elegance.  What is less obvious is how much effort it’s taken to reveal the full-blown beauty we have come to expect of this place. Number of yards Harmony’s first residential construction (comprised of Biden’s Gate, Club Drive, Engh Place, … Continue readingA Man and his Dirt

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The Nelson Homestead

If reference to the “Nelson Homestead” creates more of a “huh?” than a “hmmm,” let us explain. Before there was Harmony, there were acres and acres of rolling prairie homesteaded by the Nelson family.  In 1872 Simon Duncan (pictured center, seated with beard and hat) acquired a Deed of Trust from the United States Government for land to homestead in the Colorado Territories.  Three generations later, Clovis Nelson, Simon’s great-great-grandson had grown the original 40-acre plot to a … Continue readingThe Nelson Homestead

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