The slideshow below details the improvements on the 13th hole over the past 14 months.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Final Results from the Rock Removal on 13.
In October I posted on the work being done to remove the rocks behind the 13th green. You can read that post by clicking on the link below.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Bandon Dunes Golf Resort
The weekend before Thanksgiving I had the chance to spend four days with my dad and brother in Bandon, Oregon at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort. Bandon Dunes is a fantastic golf resort featuring 3 world class golf courses. Pacific Dunes (#2 on Golfweek's top 100 modern courses), Bandon Dunes (#5) and Bandon Trails (#22). In June the resort will open a fourth course, Old Macdonald, which many feel could be better than the previous three. The resort is located in the sand dunes of the Southern Oregon coast. The golf courses are true links course and feature fine fescue playing surfaces throughout all three courses. Check out the Bandon Dunes website for more information on the resort.
The three of us spent four fantastic nights at the resort and played one round at each of the three courses. I have heard Bandon Dunes described as Disney World for adults and after being there I cannot say I disagree. When we checked in Friday night the front desk upgraded us from a two bed room to the four bedroom "Golf Suite". This would have been a great trip if we were sleeping in a tent by the maintenance building. Getting to spend four nights in a suite with a monster deck over looking the putting green at Bandon Dunes was a bit more than we could have asked.
Having arrived in the dark of night we had no idea what the landscape outside our room was going to look like in the morning. Excitement and the time change had me wide awake at 4 in the morning. By 6 o'clock I was standing on a dune between the 9th green and 10th tee in the pitch black. I stood there for over an hour waiting for the amazing dunescape to emerge from the dark. It was really a special feeling.
We played each of the three courses and on Sunday I snuck up to the fourth course and spent a couple hours walking the course all by myself. A someone who is passionate about golf, golf architecture and turfgrass the resort provided nothing sort of sensory overload. I took close to 700 photos of the resort in general and all four courses. As I working my way through the photos, adding captions, I will post the albums to the blog. The first two rounds of our trip, Bandon Trails and Bandon Dunes have already been posted.
I hope you enjoy the photos.
Monday, November 16, 2009
TwitPic Updates
Yesterday I added a new feature to the blog, TwitPic updates. One of the great features of Twitter is the ability to take a photo with my phone and immediately post it to Twitter. These photos are posted and managed through TwitPic. In the right-hand margin of this page, below the Twitter updates are thumbnails of the last five photos I have posted using TwitPic.
Enjoy!
Friday, November 13, 2009
Video: Update of Drainage Work on #11
This video is an update of the drainage work on the 11th hole.
Video: Nursery Construction Update
As promised an update on the construction of the new green nursery along the 9th hole.
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