Last winter, the team of, Joe Hancock, Don Mahaffey, Tim Benedict+ (Woodmere Superintendent), Rob Young, James Burt and myself, made some changes at The Woodmere Club on Long Island. They were hit hard by Sandy in 2012 and lost a ton of Pine Trees among many other items due to the 6' of salt water on their property.
One stand of 75 pines was killed between holes 10 & 4.
An old view from above pre Sandy:
This was the plan we set out to build:
Here are a few before and afters:
Before:
After:
Before: Looking back over 10 green to the clubhouse - note all the dead Pine trees.
After:
This is where Brad Klein grew up as a caddy.
Here Brad is adding a photo of the clutter on the 4th and 10th tees to his "what not to do" slide show:
Here is the after:
Woodmere is over 100 years old and was expanded to 18 holes by Robert Trent Jones in the 50's.
We used the Jones inspiration to build that cool double runway tee - at grade.
Please let me know if you'd like to see more or if anyone played The Woodmere Club this year.
Cheers