April 21

Now things are really taking shape; 7, 8 , & 9 are stripped and buried. The contractor is starting to strip the grass off on #11.


Here the contractor is stripping the boundary with the specialty machine to make sure the spoils do not wind up in the neighbor's yard.


Here is a good example of how field changes happen, especially in a renovation. The plans called for a bunker right over top of a 6" mainline (which the contractor nicked with the dozer track & had to be replaced). So we shifted the bunker over 5 yards to the left.


Here is an example of where we moved the irrigation lines instead of the bunkers. The old irrigation lines for 9 green went right through the middle of the new bunkers, see the old bent pipe next to the new bright white pipe(I'm taking the pic from the back of the green's slope). Making a field change here would have too much negative impact on the layout. That's when you change the infrastructure instead of the design.


During the process, its a constant "tweaking" of the design. Myself and the contractor probably don't go more than an hour without talking about what has happened so far that day, what's coming, or the new fire that just popped up. Here we are discussing the 1st bunkers made on 7. I had asked for some changes to the contractor's interpretation of the design. This is the natural process, the shapers have to get a feel for the design's intended shape and look. Remember, they are going from looking at a 2 dimension, flat drawing and now trying to build it 3-D. After 1 or 2 bunkers, very little changes have to be made.




A new world has been discovered at CCN!!! Here the contractor is clearing the old dump for the new blue tee on 13. HOLY HUGE BRAZILIAN PEPPERS BATMAN!!


Here's a look from 13 fairway


Here is a look from the new tee location