Tim,
Just got off the golf course at the Bob OLink course with the superintendent Scott Pavalko. The greens are rolling true and members polled are happy with the way the golf course turned out after one season.
If someone can help me post a photo I would be happy to share today's snapshots.
As some of you may or may not know Bob O'Link club closed down the summer of 2015 for a complete redo of the greens, bunkers, tees and fairways with no regrets.
Greens were mapped except for the two that I was allowed creative license with, they were changed in the late 90's and did not look or play like the other 16 greens.
Jim,
I recall rebuilding 11 when with Killian and Nugent, probably a few others, but that would have been pre 1983 when the firm split up. We extended it to the water and redid the bunkers. Bob Williams was the super then, and he had some very definite bunker ideas (also very nice, much more shapely than anything KN did, even though they were harder to maintain) Who did the 1990's redo's?
All,
Can't resist telling this story, since the thread is on North Shore. About 1980, Killian and Nugent did the greens at North Shore, probably for the current supers father or uncle, since the Dinelli family has been supers around Chicago for a long time. I drew and staked out a fairly shapely bunker for that particular green, it got built, but when I came back a few days later, it had simplified quite a bit. The super had rounded off all edges for easier mowing, and added a little exit area just wider than the sand pro. He told me he had reshaped it over night and this happened several times. Frustrated, and playing architect, I changed it back, telling him it looked like a GD pork chop. He said, "Yeah, that's the look I was going for, the pork chop bunker" and walked off.
In honor of that, I occasionally build a pork chop bunker to this day, although only the 7th at Wild Wing has lived up to the true promise of the idea and execution of the original one.......