The Spine for Things to Come

We have to cap a couple fairways with about 1 meter (1.093 yards) of sand. To get the sand in to cover these low wet areas we need a 9 meter wide road. That’s big enough for 2 Volvo Dumpers side-by-side. The road will be 360 meters long, and built from a layer of sand 50cm thick (20 inches). 9m by 360m by .5m is 1620 cubic meters (about 1750 cubic yards). This material will require digging a hole 40 meters (44 yards) by 40 meters by one meter deep…about a third of an America football field, or a bit less than half of a soccer field. In our case we’ll actually be cutting a one meter deep strip 25 meters wide by 65 meters long.

The procedure: The bulldozer will free the future road of organic material, the trucks will bring in the sand, and the bulldozer will spread the sand to the required thickness. The trucks will only drive on the sand they import. Once this road is built, we’ll then have the fairways on both sides of the road stripped of organic material; about 5 to 10 cm (2 to 4 inches). The trucks will haul this organic material to a point not far away and then race to our excavation area to bring in the sand to cap the fairways. For a short while they’ll be loaded with material coming and going, but only for a while. Once the trucks reach the point of only bringing sand to cap the fairways, filling these fairway go fast, as our source for sand is only a few hundred meters away.





























The roadway between the 6th and 7th holes will see a constant stream of dumpers loaded with 30 cubic meters of sand. The road is vital for keeping things moving when it rains, and keeping damage to a minimum. The trucks will not leave this road. They will deliver the sand and bulldozers will push it across the fairways.

Tony Ristola
agolfarchitect.com
+1 (909) 581 0080