Wow.....sorry to burst everyone's fun bubble here, but I'm amazed at how ignorant some of the ideas of "pimping" are on this thread as they pertain to effective golf course maintenance. Allow me to just expound on a few as part of yet another opportunity to educate the golfing public:
Bunker irrigation heads - when designed effectively, help to substaintially save on both water costs and manual labor that would otherwise be needed to put irrigation vital to the plants basic health and survival in areas where slope, infiltration and runoff are huge issues. More often than not, this type of irrigation is not there to "keep the grass green" as much as to use the most efficient method of irrigating the grass enough to make sure the noses, fingers, surrounds, etc don't turn into dirt or, conversely, have to flood the bunker just to keep the grass around it alive
Landscaped ball washer complexs - I'd prefer to just have the ball washers on the carts, but since most don't like carts, if you're going to have them on the course, might as well isolate them without grass underneath to maintain. I put decompsed granite around my ballwasher areas (not landscape plants) because before we had it, mowers had to stop their machines, get off and move the ball washer or if it was permanently there we had to send a guy later to eventually weedeat down the foot tall grass around it that the mower could get to. The "landscaping" saves on labor time and overall asthetic without any added attention needed to keep grass or plants alive in a tricky area.
Walk-mowed approaches - Funny this should be on there with a bunch of "better" golfers participating. Walk mowing will almost always give you a better quality cut, at lower heights, enabling those wild and excitingly undulating greens surrounds to play firm, fast, true and smooth to be able to have options between using the putter and other clubs. Also, many approaches/surrounds that do have significant mounding/undulations may be very difficult if not impossible to mow with any other larger mower without scalping all the little hills and missing the cut in the tiny valleys. More often than not, hand mowing in these areas is for logistics and playability, not aesthetics.
Bottled water on the course - Kyle Harris already hit this on the head.....if golfers weren't so sue happy, it wouldn't be necessary. Often it's not a "pimped" perk, it's a required mandate to avoid lawsuits about drinking water availability and contamination. Drinking fountains pose the same problem....all it takes is one person to claim they got sick from drinking the water on the course.....
Courses with $2.5 million irrigation systems that handwater regularly - I don't care how much your irrigation system costs, the best efficiency you're going to get with JUST sprinklers on any golf course is no better than 80%. As such, handwatering is ALWAYS necessary. Would you rather turn on a sprinkler with a 60 foot radius putting out 25 gallons per minute to water a 2x2 bone dry area, or just use a hose to put the necessary couple gallons EXACTLY where it needs to go? Every super who's installed a new irrigation system, which usually saves their club THOUSANDS in saved water costs, repair materials and labor hours, has to deal with morons who just don't get why it's still necessary to water by hand. (Sorry for the name-calling, but this is a particular pet peeve of mine.)
I'd love to hear from the suggestors of these ideas after they play a golf course that has dirt around every bunker, foot high grass around the ball washers (or no ball washers at all), approaches with horribly inconsistant heights of cut and quality, no drinking water, and spattered areas of rock hard dirt next to mushy bogs due to only irrigating with sprinklers.