What (most) Everyone Did Today

A page from my construction diary (I use nicknames for most workers):

DIARY Thursday 08-11-07 Rain during the night and day; 7 Degrees
1. 05:45 to 17:30
2. Elf flopped organic material by Green 12; then Chechek pushed the remainder towards the maintenance building wetland
3. Elf went to #4 to flop material from the Wall near the tees.
4. Captain flopped material from the wetland by #4 tees and put it on the road for pushing; Chechek pushed the material to the mass in front of the gate.
5. Captain prepared tees for grading on 17
6. Chechek finished at about 12:00
7. Tomek and his crew installed drainage on fairway 4


Tony Ristola
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Raining Again

It has begun raining again, and as autumn creeps to winter this will limit the type of work we’ll be able to accomplish. At some point we’ll need the ground to freeze to create roadways so we can get some critical driving done without damaging the golf course.

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

Changes: Bunker back of Green 7

The bunker at the back of green 7 was cut some days ago, working around the beach grasses, using, and working around their natural growth pattern to provide the form. After further thought, another bunker was planned, directly beside this first one, but instead, by working around the beach grass, the planned bunker became a bunker extension… and so it goes, just like a painting… adjusting and modifying as we go.

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

Enter Pawel Lewinski

Pawel, with the world famous surname, is our agronomic consultant. Today he toured the site, made some notes and we asked and will be asking further questions to prepare some of the course for seeding.

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

Sunday: A Day of Golf

Today was a day of golf with our irrigation designer Kimmo Laihonen. A nice autumn day; cool, crisp and the greens running at a pretty good pace. It was a lot of fun, and a combination of good, and interesting shots.

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

Staking the Irrigation lines

Kimmo Laihonen, our irrigation designer staked the sprinkler head positions. As the green position, hazards, fairway contours, and shapes have changed due to designing in the field as we go, Kimmo is busy designing this system in the field too.

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

New Toys for the Irrigation Boys

The irrigation team took delivery of a couple new toys today. A 7-ton Volvo excavator with 6-way bucket, and a 6 wheel all terrain mini-Hummer, better known as John Deere’s Gator.

It would have been nice for the company delivering the excavator to bring the bucket along... now they have to make a second trip... almost the entire length of the country.

Now go out there and put all your butt welding to good use.

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

Getting Some Spine

We’ve begun work on the 11th fairway, the creation of a diagonal spine running through 70 meters of the landing area that will help complicate the choice of line with the tee shot.

In fact the work went all through the night into the wee morning hours as Chechek, The Robot, worked throughout the night to get the area cleared.


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