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Thomas Dai

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Golf courses, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, lava flows, tsunami's etc
« on: March 21, 2021, 04:05:33 PM »
Just been watching a video from Iceland of a lava flow snaking its way from a recently opened fissure following a few days of tremors etc.
This got me wondering about examples of golf courses that have been destroyed or part destroyed by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, lava flows, tsunami’s and the like and how, if the course or part of the course survived in some way, it may have somehow, sometime been brought back into play in some way or another one day.
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Tom_Doak

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Re: Golf courses, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and lava flows
« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2021, 04:14:45 PM »
There is a golf course on the volcanic Westmann Island in Iceland. Years ago the volcano started going off and pretty much the whole island community had to be evacuated for a while, but the golf course survived and has been expanded - I don't think it was affected by the lava flow even though it's only a mile or two away.


Many Hawaiian courses are built over ancient lava flows but not active ones!  Volcano GC in Hawaii is only a mile from Kiluea crater but it's on the high side so safe from flows and anything but the most serious eruption.
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John Emerson

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Re: Golf courses, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and lava flows
« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2021, 07:34:10 PM »
I can tell you that if we keep going at the same rate we are now that a great many of the courses we love will be gone.  Temps continue to warm over the next 50-100 years and they be swimming with fishes. 
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Pete_Pittock

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Re: Golf courses, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and lava flows
« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2021, 10:31:03 PM »
a ceremonial golf cart chariot was found just outside of Pompeii.
Mira Vista (CA) sits on top of the north Hayward fault.
There used to be a Forest Park Golf Course in Anchorage AK which closed a couple of years later. It was located just east of the airport, which was extensively damaged.

You could probably add tsunmai to the mix.  If there is ever a 9+ in the Cascade subduction zone, the Bandon complex would probably be unusable or unreachable.
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Wayne_Kozun

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Re: Golf courses, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, lava flows, tsunami's etc
« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2021, 01:08:58 PM »
Of course there is Montserrat where half of the island is now an "exclusion zone" due to volanic eruptions over th last 25 years. 


Apparently there was an 11 hole course on the island.  This is supposed to have beent he clubhouse:



This site has a bunch of other photos:  https://adventure.com/montserrat-caribbean-opening-tourists/
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