When I arrived here after the previous builder was fired and the project started anew, the landscape looked like a war zone. There was no topsoil for this hole, the adjacent 18th and 5th in the distance. There was a lot of erosion, old drainage was busted, and inferior material was stockpiled for the greens and fairway contours.
All the crap was taken away, used in the buffer wall, as we started to repair the damage left by the previous inhabitants.
I didn't use detailed plans to build this or any hole, green or bunker; we had ideas and built upon them... seizing opportunities daily to improve the concepts as we went along.
It's a faster way to build than following sticks and waiting for the infrequent site-visits of an architect. It's not only more faster, it allows all the opportunities to improve the product to be seized.
The first hole in the evening.
The place is starting to look like a golf course.
The hole looks bunker free, but Goat's Bunker awaits behind Goat's Hill to the left of the green.
Tony Ristola
agolfarchitect.com
agolfarchitect@yahoo.com
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