Andy,
Hope you didn't fall for the sucker bet and hit driver off the tee. If so, hah, we gotcha!
Mike,
We have 8 different prairie plantings on the course, all custom species as selected by our native expert. He did a great job. I don't know if I'd use the same stuff again, but I know I'd call Jerry in a heartbeat and listen very closely to what he says. He did a great job of matching our playability desires with the native aspects of the various areas. To the right of one and around 11 tees is heavy in timothy and switch grasses.
We call them butter knife bunkers, and this is the true story, because standing in line at the Thanksgiving Dinner Buffet at my folks before we even knew the style of the course, my oldest brother asked me what the perfect bunker looked like. He had been reading all sorts of books and seen all kind of pictures. I tried to describe a MacDonald/Raynoresque look and was doing very poorly with my verbal description so I picked up the butter knife next to the rolls; Mom makes the best homemade rolls, and shaped a bunker in the soft butter log next to the jelly bowl. Walla, the birth of the butter knife bunker.
Pat,
The long bridge ride is from the temporary clubhouse to the first and tenth tees. Its really not that bad though. The course is very walkable and quite pleasant. A lot of the guys in scratch league walk as do some members.
Cheers!
JT