Photo of 16.
I'll get back with info about the hole... and course.
For the record... I took over from Tilander after he had 10-months with a golf course builder and things went badly... otherwise I would never have set foot on the property. When the machines rolled onto the property on Month 11 I never communicated with the guy personally about the project during the following 18-months, by email, fax, sms, smoke signals or telepathically... not a single word was exchanged. His greens, strategy, grading plans were filed in the trash, as were his construction specs... which I rewrote to take advantage of the great on-site gift... angular river sand. His pot bunker style and collection was tossed, and replaced with flash faced bunkering. His basic routing was used.
Having spent over 18-months in the field leading/working with locals (most had never seen a golf course before), and working 6.5 days a week... between 65 and 110-hour weeks... more than 5000 hours total... shaping all greens and fairways (sans plans), and a number of bunkers, and detailing the bunkers personally during grow-in over 45-days... I do not consider him co-architect by any stretch of the imagination. Had he participated in the process, even superficially, I would have had to share credit, but he didn't. He can take credit for the 10-months before I arrived (all photo documented), the par-3 course and general routing... that was his contribution. The design... LOL... not by a long shot. And as for what happened during the 10-months before I arrived... all of it had to be undone because of basic construction errors. The only bit that was usable was half the irrigation lake (dug to 30% of the depth required) and the high quality sandy/loam-like topsoil stripped from 3 fairways and used as fill for the buffer wall on the 5th hole. I've been writing a book about the project that spells out the process because I'd like to make clear the thought behind the design and who did what. Having taken thousands of photos from Day 1... it will be as much a visual explanation as written. I wrote a piece for Paul Daley's Golf Architecture series titled...
Rescuing Sand Valley; A Lesson for Investors, and kept the first daily design/construction blog of a golf project
www.sandvalleygolf.blogspot.comI would like to hear Tilander's take on the course and how he "designed" it and deserves credit as co-designer. Someone out there, perhaps an EIGCA member can invite him here and have him tell us his side of the story. I'll be eager to read it.