Today we made a start renovating the bunker left of the 13th green. Here you can see the need for the renovation. When the face was excavated there was around 2 feet of sand build up.
This is how it looked before work started. First job before anything is done is to move the sand into the centre of the bunker to avoid contamination.
Once the sand was moved Alistair began excavating the face, removing all excess sand until the original soil line was found. The final shaping has to be done by hand
Once the face has been re-established and shaped, the back of the bunker is reshaped and graded using the excavator, then finished by hand.
The area to the back of the bunker is being contoured, so from the tee there is a back drop to the bunker. To do this the turf is firstly stripped to be relaid, the topsoil is excavated off and soil is imported to create the shapes required then the topsoil is used to finish the area off. Tomorrow we hope to have finished all contouring work and ready to relay the turf.
This is how it looked before work started. First job before anything is done is to move the sand into the centre of the bunker to avoid contamination.
Once the sand was moved Alistair began excavating the face, removing all excess sand until the original soil line was found. The final shaping has to be done by hand
Once the face has been re-established and shaped, the back of the bunker is reshaped and graded using the excavator, then finished by hand.
The area to the back of the bunker is being contoured, so from the tee there is a back drop to the bunker. To do this the turf is firstly stripped to be relaid, the topsoil is excavated off and soil is imported to create the shapes required then the topsoil is used to finish the area off. Tomorrow we hope to have finished all contouring work and ready to relay the turf.