Lawrence Country Club, closed for renovations since last July, is scheduled to open for play Sept. 30, according to head pro Jon Zylstra.

The night before that, Zylstra said, an opening ceremony of sorts in which a few long-standing members will hit tee shots from No. 1. The club’s oldest honorary member, Francis Denton, will be invited to pull the names for Sept. 30 tee times.

Denton will celebrate his 100th birthday Aug. 14.

“We’d love for him to do that,” Zylstra said.

A date range of Sept. 15-30 was recommended by a USGA egronomist, and the later date was chosen because of a re-seeding that needs to be done later in the summer.

“The members were all very excited,” Zylstra said of a Tuesday night meeting attended by an estimated 70 members.

In the past, LCC had trouble with drainage, which would lead to the course being closed a day or two after an inch of rain, Zylstra said.

“People would always say Alvamar’s open, and I’d have to tell them, well, Alvamar’s a modern course, we’re old,” Zylstra said. “Now when we get an inch of rain, we’ll only have to close for 10 or 15 minutes. We really needed new a new irrigation system and drainage for the greens.”

The new irrigation system, Zylstra said, would allow LCC to be “for the most part self-sufficient as far as water supply, although in droughts like this, we’ll still have to buy water.”