#18 Greenside Bunker

Here we go to the next trap, we are moving on to #18 left greenside bunker. We will have all the sand from around the edges piled in the center for the beginning to mid-week, so be patient with us.
 I am going with a little different look on this one. I wanted to add soil on the side closest to the green to create a flashing (I'm thinking the would be right term to use). reason being the current design of the bunker has very limited visibility from the #18 fairway anywhere from the 250 to the 100 yard markers. If we simply rolled the sod down, then the bunker would not be visible. Once the flashing is complete I'll install a products that helps in stopping erosion. So after it rains the sand will not move down to the bottom. This material allows sand to bond to it which in turns helps in keeping sand in place.
 Back to the flashing area, or we could remove the mounds in front of the bunker. However my feeling is this would allow shots taken from the 200 yard and out area vulnerable to end up in the lake left of the green. The slight mounding in front of the traps cushions the impact from the shot and ends up putting your ball in the trap or general area.
 So I have chosen to simply just roll the sod down to the bottom of the trap on three sides and create a flashing on the fourth side, I hope that makes sense to you. All of this will help tremendously in keeping these bunkers up. Just keep a reminder; We are not re-doing the drainage, so after big rains the trap will still have water in it but no erosion. All we have to do is pump and rake.

Hazard Post

Well if any of you have played the course I have to think you've noticed the new hazard markers going in holes #4,5,6. After we finished clearing out all of the excess debre, we wanted to get the outline marked correctly.
 Many thanks to the MGA again for their support in supplying the pipe and paint.

#9 Greenside Bunker

 Many of you have noticed the massive renavation to the greenside bunker at hole #9. We had began with simply planning to roll the grass on the sides and do away with the walls around the edge of this trap some 20 inches deep.
 Once we finished with rolling the sod around the edges we discovered that we were some two feet below the ground elevation. therefore this bunker could be seen from the fairway anywhere.
 We then removed the sand, by the way 28 inches of sand was removed from this bunker. In fact we took all the sand from this bunker and moved it the two greenside traps on hole #13, three greenside traps on hole #8 and two greenside traps on hole #14.
 Once all the sand was removed we then had to add soil to the bottom and raise the entire bottom of the trap around two feet so we could make the trap visible from the fairway. Once we finished with adding the soil all the new drainage was installed. Then came the sand installed 6 inches deep, this should allow for a 4 inch depth of sand. Remember as the water hits the sand it will help pack it tight and in turn the height of sand decreases.
 We will now be moving on to hole number 18 greenside bunker left side.