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Tom_Doak

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Re:Not using modern earth moving equipment to build a golf course...
« Reply #25 on: April 09, 2007, 02:24:58 PM »
Kalen:

Oh, I have to take that back about the 16th at Pacific Dunes being untouched.  There was actually a small dune at the start of the fairway, which we shoved down into the deep hole there.  Otherwise you wouldn't have seen very much of the fairway from the tee.  But, all of the little finicky contours from there in are natural ones (with some softening by a sand pro so they could all be mowed).

Kalen Braley

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Re:Not using modern earth moving equipment to build a golf course...
« Reply #26 on: April 09, 2007, 04:30:12 PM »
Those contours in the fairway really make the hole in my mind, although the massive swale short of the green turns it into a little beast.  ;D

On a similar vien.  How many of the holes did you figure out the 1st time you saw and walked the site?  I know you've mentioned that 7, especially the green complex and surronding area is basically untouched.  I would have guessed that 13 stuck out almost immediately with that massive dune.