Bunker work

Over the past two weeks we have be doing work to a few selected bunkers on the course. We started with the main bunker on the chipping green. Since it was constructed 5 years ago sand from bunker shots has accumulated on the top lip of the bunker. A lot of sand. My best estimate is that the top lip become about 12 inches higher than 5 years ago. After original construction you could see the chipping green surface when standing in the bunker. The top lip had grow some that you could not longer see the surface when standing in bunker. In order to re-establish the proper height of the top lip we removed the sod, then graded and removed all of the excess sand. It was easy to find where the original grade line was because the original grade was in soil and all of the excess material was sand. Once the original grade was re-established we laid new sod and replaced the sand in the bunker.

On the course, bunkers on holes #9, #10 and #18 received some attention. With these bunkers we re-established there original shape and contour. Years of maintenance and edging can drastically change the shape of a bunker. While the staff does a great job in trying to minimize this change, we selected these bunkers were playability may have been affected to work on first. Here is a before and after of the back right green side bunker on #9: