Wire bunkers

[BCrosby]

Looking through some golf magazines from the turn of the last century, I came across a number of pictures captioned "wire bunkers".

They are what their name suggests. Wire strectched across a fw or a green to about three feet high. It looks like it might be chicken wire with stakes every 10 or 20 feet to hold it up.

I was shocked. Then I thought about it a bit. Shouldn't a truly "natural" course in a heavily urban setting look, well..., urban? So why not build such courses with walls, roads and fences? I seem to recall there are several beloved older courses that incorporate such features.

Bob 

[Sean_Tully]

Bob

I found a similar hazard but it was a bit more natural, and all the more penal. They had planted hedges with a thorny bush for a hazard on one of their holes and seemed to be pretty proud of fit. Hows that for a hazard to be avoided!

Wonder how much of this type of "architecture" was temporary as they were only leasing the land etc. why put a lot of money(or any) if you don't plan on having it be permanent.

Tully

[Craig Sweet]

Bob...like this?

http://www.urbangolf.org/

[Bill_McBride]

There appear to be a lot of chain link hazards on the Peter Jans course featured on a current thread.  Would that count for a modern version?  

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