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LEADERSHIP DRIVEN GOLF COURSE ARCHITECTURE

Sand Valley GolfPasek, Poland

Construction Progression4 th Hole: Wetlands (Waste Bunker)

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VISION AND LEADERSHIP ARE INSEPARABLE


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Starting Point: The previous team left a few piles of fill for contours outside of the originally routed fairway; visible against the darkness of the forest..

The piles were eliminated. The greensite was originally planned in the vicinity of the lightest brown pile and barren oak tree near the center of the photo.It was relocated 50-meters to the right, so the green gets sunlight all-day during the spring, autumn and winter.The original placement would have left the green in the shade during much of the day.


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The excavated material from the constructed wetland was driven to the buffer wall.Silty sand was piled in the waste area to dry out.A huge pile of sand waits to be pushed by bulldozer to the greensite and surrounds.

The fairway hugs the tree line to the left, and looks much thinner than its 70 meter width.


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To the right is Tex, an old friend and expert dozer and excavator operator brought in to cut bunkers,

and install rootzone on the greens and tees.

Thanks Tex for a job well done.


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Bunker formalized. The white wall in the distance will be planted with bush in the future.Almost all the fill for the wall came from the wetland we scraped to the right of the waste bunker.


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Grow-in.The waste bunker is growing in too!


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This was the first bunker to be detailed.It was largely hand work.


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The first edging.The best sods were used in the detailing of the bunker.


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Grow-in continues. Edged, detailed, spoils removed, and ready to clean up of the bunker sole.


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Another view of the same bunker


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Sand Valley Golf & CC by the Numbers

Total Schedule: 543 days . This includes Saturdays and Sundays. Number days I worked: 517

Number of hours worked per day on average: 11 hours (includes Sat. & Sun.)

Total Hours: 5500 +. My work day started on average at 06:00, and I was usually the last to leave the construction site.

Responsibilities

Golf Course Design : The golf course was designed in the field on a daily basis. An EIGCA architect began the project, but hisdesign was abandoned. The EIGCA architects general routing was used though modified.

Construction Supervisor : The construction team was largely locals.

Lead shaper : shaping all greens, all fairways and larger scale bunkers.

(Caterpillar D6N & D6R) No detailed plans were used to create the greens, hazards or fairway contours. In fact, no grade stakeswere used!

Daily blog about the construction of the golf course: www.sandvalleygolf.blogspot.com

Finish work on greens in conjunction with another finishing expert.

Painting for marketing and promotion

Original: 60cm x 25cm (Acrylic on canvas)

Marketing material assistance


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At all of my projects I have either worked with a general contractor, or a crew of workers selected from the local community, savingbundles of cash since a company claiming to specialize in golf course construction is more expensive than hiring a local crew of qualified

and conscientious operators.

Sand Valley was largely built by people that had no concept of golf none! The same was done at GC Emstal, where I worked alongside aconscientious regional general contractor to create a project ranked among the best golf courses in Germany by Golf Digest.

BUND (Bund fr die Naturschutz Deutschland) the environmental watchdog group gave this far-reaching endorsement:

Outstanding Integration of a Golf Course Along the Ems RiverWe admit this: We made a mistake. What stands now is a golf course which fits in excellent harmony with the landscape of the EmsRiver valley. What stood one year before was an area of 50 desolate hectares dominated by intensively cultivated cornfields. Within afew short months this was transformed into a project which is now a model for the integration of a sports park in a protected area.My service does not stop with the end of construction.

The reason this is such a far reaching endorsement? When golf is in question, one usually expects the direct opposite response from

BUND. They actually buy land to stop golf projects!

The best golf courses are the product of a cooperative effort between the architect and owner/superintendent to ensure the course is setup and matures as the architect envisioned. Great courses are a labor of love, and greatness is unlikely if the designer, owner andsuperintendent play only the opening round together and never see one another again. For these reasons, my services do not stop at theend of construction. They continue for the life of the project.

For each golf course I design, I write a book documenting its architecture, construction and maintenance practices. It becomes acomprehensive short and long term guide for the members, guests, etc., but most importantly for the superintendent and boardmembers. This work provides a historical record that assists in the continuing evolvement of the project, with the goal of ensuring thedesign intent is never compromised, that club funds are not misspent on doing and undoing work detrimental to the design.


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