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GolfClubAtlas.com => Golf Course Architecture Discussion Group => Topic started by: Mark_Rowlinson on March 26, 2012, 03:41:50 PM

Title: When were revetted bunkers introduced?
Post by: Mark_Rowlinson on March 26, 2012, 03:41:50 PM
Having seen Frank Pont's post about bunkers on Open Championship courses and today's post about dummed down bunkers, I am aware that revetted bunkers may be a newer invention than I thought - I assumed they had been there for centuries. When were they introduced (and where?).
Title: Re: When were revetted bunkers introduced?
Post by: Jim_Kennedy on March 26, 2012, 03:55:01 PM
Mark,
I recall reading somewhere that the first use of them was at St. Andrews and that they came into being because the 'new' iron headed clubs were tearing up the faces. 

If I remember where I read that I'll post it.  ;D   
Title: Re: When were revetted bunkers introduced?
Post by: Melvyn Morrow on March 26, 2012, 04:30:49 PM

Jim

Did you mean Fife or are you sticking with St Andrews?

Melvyn
Title: Re: When were revetted bunkers introduced?
Post by: Jim_Kennedy on March 26, 2012, 04:49:08 PM
MM,
I meant at TOC.
Title: Re: When were revetted bunkers introduced?
Post by: Ally Mcintosh on March 26, 2012, 04:56:40 PM
Revetted bunkers were certainly used at TOC in the 1800's.... Perhaps Melvyn could re-post his picture of Hell that had one wall retained with sod...

They are far from a new invention.
Title: Re: When were revetted bunkers introduced?
Post by: Jim_Kennedy on March 26, 2012, 05:07:26 PM
If it's true that they came into being around the time that iron clubs became popular it would place them in the early to mid 1800s. Not a modern device, but certainly not part of golf's first few hundred years.
Title: Re: When were revetted bunkers introduced?
Post by: Melvyn Morrow on March 26, 2012, 05:09:52 PM
Ally

Hell Bunker 1885
(http://i346.photobucket.com/albums/p421/Melvyn_Hunter/HellBunkerTOC1885-1.jpg)

Hell Bunker pre 1897
(http://i346.photobucket.com/albums/p421/Melvyn_Hunter/HellBunkerphotofromBritishGolfLinks1897001.jpg)
Title: Re: When were revetted bunkers introduced?
Post by: Duncan Cheslett on March 26, 2012, 11:51:36 PM
Why are four blokes stood in the bunker watching a fifth take his shot? Were they just posing for that new fangled 'photography' thing?