[Tom_Doak]

Landscape budget?  We have just transplanted a few bushes around here and there.

Or do you mean the maintenance budget in the "native" areas?  I'm not sure Rusty knows the answer to that question yet.

[Jud_T]

Greg,

Agree that the par 3 look fantastic.  Guess that's their signature hole...     

[Greg Tallman]

Landscape budget?  We have just transplanted a few bushes around here and there.

Or do you mean the maintenance budget in the "native" areas?  I'm not sure Rusty knows the answer to that question yet.

So the landscape will be wide open sand as shown in some of the photos?

[George Freeman]

Wow!   

Looks awesome!

Some of those shots look like the newly remodeled Pinehurst #2.  Very cool.

[Tom_Doak]

Landscape budget?  We have just transplanted a few bushes around here and there.

Or do you mean the maintenance budget in the "native" areas?  I'm not sure Rusty knows the answer to that question yet.

So the landscape will be wide open sand as shown in some of the photos?

Greg:

There will be a lot of sand showing, but there are also various native grasses [and invasive species!] which have grown over a large portion of the area between holes.  We'll keep as much of that stuff as we can, but where it eats too many golf balls, they will be scraping it up [or using Roundup] on a regular basis.

The golf couse covers a lot of ground -- there are only a couple of places where it's even remotely possible to hit it onto another hole by accident, and the fairways are very generous for the most part.  I'd guess a good player won't see the open sand too often, and the average players will be glad it's there.  Hopefully the visitors won't demand that it's all polished to perfection.

[Matt Kardash]

Weren't architects saying 20 years ago that there were hardly any good sites (and no links sites) left? All I see is Tom Doak getting one breath-taking site after another!

[Howard Riefs]

There will be a lot of sand showing, but there are also various native grasses [and invasive species!] which have grown over a large portion of the area between holes.  We'll keep as much of that stuff as we can, but where it eats too many golf balls, they will be scraping it up [or using Roundup] on a regular basis.

Does any of the sand play as a waste area?

[Duncan Cheslett]

This looks an awesome project, and I look forward to a trip to Florida in the next couple of years.

What the heck though, are those strange landforms to the east of the property seen on Google Earth?

[Greg Tallman]

Landscape budget?  We have just transplanted a few bushes around here and there.

Or do you mean the maintenance budget in the "native" areas?  I'm not sure Rusty knows the answer to that question yet.

So the landscape will be wide open sand as shown in some of the photos?

Greg:

There will be a lot of sand showing, but there are also various native grasses [and invasive species!] which have grown over a large portion of the area between holes.  We'll keep as much of that stuff as we can, but where it eats too many golf balls, they will be scraping it up [or using Roundup] on a regular basis.

The golf couse covers a lot of ground -- there are only a couple of places where it's even remotely possible to hit it onto another hole by accident, and the fairways are very generous for the most part.  I'd guess a good player won't see the open sand too often, and the average players will be glad it's there.  Hopefully the visitors won't demand that it's all polished to perfection.

Is it a little bit of "we'll have to wait and see what grows up with the overspray and decide what to keep and what to 'manage'" type of thing? As i recall the early photos of tyour cool little par 3 was barrne sand and now the photos show some pretty wild vegetation and landscape surrounding the green. I assume that did not just happen.

[Brian Ross]

This looks an awesome project, and I look forward to a trip to Florida in the next couple of years.

What the heck though, are those strange landforms to the east of the property seen on Google Earth?

Duncan, that area with the long parallel ponds to the east of Streamsong was mined for phosphate as well.  Here is an aerial picture of a similar former phosphate mine. 

[Tom_Doak]

Brian:

That stuff in the foreground is exactly like one of the "other" sites that Bill and I were offered on which to build the second golf course originally.  That's why we worked so hard to fit 36 holes onto the site we had!  I don't know the full story behind the "sand piles" site that we chose, but the sand was piled much higher and deeper there than what is normally left over in the mining process ... it was some sort of staging area or something I think.

[Tom_Doak]

Is it a little bit of "we'll have to wait and see what grows up with the overspray and decide what to keep and what to 'manage'" type of thing? As i recall the early photos of tyour cool little par 3 was barrne sand and now the photos show some pretty wild vegetation and landscape surrounding the green. I assume that did not just happen.

Greg:

A little bit, although in most places there was something already growing, we've just got to see whether it turns into a jungle or not.  It's a lot thicker in the summer than in winter, that could be the difference in the two photos you saw.

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