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Howard Riefs

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Had One Job
« on: March 04, 2013, 02:21:40 PM »
The following photo gallery provided some good laughs on how somethings just don't turn out as planned:

hadonejob.com

It also made me wonder what missteps the GCAs and supers have seen on golf courses during construction or regular maintenance.  I'm not as interested in poor design but rather mistakes that made you scratch your head and ask "really?"

Any examples?
"Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: Taking long walks and hitting things with a stick."  ~P.J. O'Rourke

Mark_Rowlinson

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Re: Had One Job
« Reply #1 on: March 04, 2013, 03:32:52 PM »
Excellent!

Jeff_Brauer

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Re: Had One Job
« Reply #2 on: March 04, 2013, 03:42:55 PM »
Love the web site.  Can't think of any quite so screwed up construction on any of my projects.

In a combo golf and park, I recall them installing the baseball foul poles wrong, so you couldn't tell fair vs foul from whether the ball hit the mast or not.  I have had a few lake elevations set wrong, and more than a few drain pipes installed by the unknowing with a roller coaster profile, which held up the drainage at all points behind the upside peaks.

I also recall a contractor knocking over the green center pole early in construction, and we didn't notice it until well later.  We used the second LZ pole to build the green, so our par 5 dropped in yardage from 545 to about 500 yards, but at least our 16th hole was a gambling par 5....
Jeff Brauer, ASGCA Director of Outreach

Paul Gray

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Re: Had One Job
« Reply #3 on: March 04, 2013, 06:47:49 PM »
I'm ashamed to say it took me a few seconds to twig!
In the places where golf cuts through pretension and elitism, it thrives and will continue to thrive because the simple virtues of the game and its attendant culture are allowed to be most apparent. - Tim Gavrich