Medinah's No. 3 to undergo renovation

Medinah Country Club will spend upward of $3 million on a multifaceted renovation that would see the club's famed No. 3 course close Aug. 15 and reopen next June with an eye toward the 2012 Ryder Cup.

The renovation will include reconstruction of the 11 remaining original soil-based push-up greens on the club's No. 3 course. The surfaces would be replaced by state-of-the-art, sand-based greens set to specifications of the U.S. Golf Association.

Golf course architect Rees Jones also will oversee this phase of improvements.

Another renovation will be re-grassing of all 18 greens to bring about all pure bentgrass greens and the re-grassing of all 18 fairways and intermediate rough areas to eliminate poa annua and other types of undesirable grasses.