After a successful day of removing all the sand and bunker liner from hole #9 Overlook on Monday, the crew moved on to hole #8 on Tuesday morning to continue removing all the old sand and cloth bunker liner. Now the Lead Shaper, which is the guy who runs to the equipment to re-shape the surrounds of the bunkers, will start to move dirt and give the bunkers a new look. He will finish the bunkers behind the demolition guys and get them all ready for sod. The crew has made quite a lot of progress in two days, as now we have 4 bunkers completely bare of sand and liner, ready to be shaped. They also have the fairway bunker on #9 shaped and close to being ready for sod, and it is already starting to take on a new look!
You can see the rolled edges on the front side, but it is hard to tell the "entry" into the bunkers from the tee side if you are playing the hole. Currently a golfer almost has to step down into most of our bunkers, but in the new bunkers the sand will meet the grass almost level from the tee side. The green side of the bunkers will have a steeper more aggressive grass face which should help the balls find the bottom of the bunker more often. So not only are we improving the look, we are trying to improve the play-ability as well!
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