A month ago I mentioned how good the Flynn bunkering at Lancaster looks these days following bunker restoration by the club and Gil Hanse a few years ago.
Kittansett's Flynn bunkering is also looking good following restoration consultation and design work done by Hanse & Co and inhouse work.
The best of all I've seen, though, is the bunkering on all 27 holes at The Country Club (Brookline). I just spoke with the superintendent at Brookline, Bill Spence (a fascinating conversation on bunkering and architecture generally) and he said he feels the bunkering may have been Flynn's redoing on the original course, at the same time he was adding the additional nine holes to The Country Club in the late 1920s, but at this point no one can be sure about that. All that is certain is that the bunkering on the Primrose nine is Flynn's and the rest of the course looks the same!
Bill Spence did say that the bunkering and their surrounds that're there now is the result of real photographic analysis, tons of inhouse hand labor in restoration work and some years of proper evolution and careful maintenance practices.
Tee to green Brookline has a look about the course with it's generally rugged natural topography and fescue areas that frankly just looks old fashioned as could be (as it should). And the bunkering of Brookline melds it's rugged, grassy bunker surrounds into that overall course look just perfectly.
I'm no agronomist at all but it does not look to me like it's possible to get that rugged natural look whether or not that look is what Flynn was all about with just bluegrass surrounds--at least not Bluegrass that's keep close cropped. A fescue mix (of whatever percentage) seems to be the trick to that look--or maybe just fescue.
But whatever it takes, in my opinion, The Country Club at Brookline's bunkering is hitting the grand slam. Their bunkering, for that particular style, whether it's strictly Flynn's style or not, is about as good as it gets!