Sebonac GC Update

[LenBum]

"We found that there were very few trees in the area, particularly on Sebonac Neck."

Ditto Shinnecock Hills. When the existing course was finished back around 1930 pictures were take of some of the holes. A few of these pictures hang on the wall in the upstairs hallway of the clubhouse. Outside of a few scrub pines hardly a tree can be seen.

[Steve Curry]

Or Olde Sebonack National...

[Coral_Ridge]

Flew over Long Island last week and took this picture.  I apologize for not getting a better shot.  I didn't want the passengers to think we were encountering any adverse winds.

[TEPaul]

"Ditto Shinnecock Hills. When the existing course was finished back around 1930 pictures were take of some of the holes. A few of these pictures hang on the wall in the upstairs hallway of the clubhouse. Outside of a few scrub pines hardly a tree can be seen."

Lenbum;

Don't know if you're aware of this but you're absolutely right Shinnecock Hills did not have many trees when the course was built but the design plan called for a most interesting "tree plan".

Apparently Lucien Tyng in conjunction with William Flynn devised a most interesting and apparently rather massive tree planting program for the new course which consisted of planting high trees in the HIGH area of the site and low trees in the LOW areas!!

The idea was that eventually in maturity this tree arrangement (from the tops of the trees) would give the illusion from the height of the clubhouse that Shinnecock Hills had much more elevation change than it really does.

That tree planting plan of Tyng/Flynn was by no means cheap---the budget for it was something like 1/6th of the entire course construction.

However, it looks to me from aerials app ten years later that that interesting Tyng/Flynn tree planting plan was never really executed the way it'd been planned.

[ed_getka]

Mark,
  Thanks for your posts and I appreciate you taking the time to let us know what is happening on the project.