John: Under the sand in the bunkers is just packed sub grade material. There is no lining being put under the sand. One interesting thing about the design of the bunkers is that the edges are extremely “wiggly” and have very shallow lips around their edges. The sand is supposed to blend right in to the grass more or less. McBroom starting doing this style of bunkers on his last two courses (Firerock and Ambassador). He was on site today and we are all wondering how the poor superintendent is going to maintain these things without going nuts
Tom: The course does have a big residential development planned with it as Jeff mentioned (thanks for answering some of the questions by the way Jeff). Right now the holes look awesome as they go through the open fields, and I cringe at the thought of houses along some of them. All in all though, the golf course gets most of the water views (there are no houses between the holes and the water on #1-9, 14, 15-- and several other holes have unobstructed views)
---On another interesting note, construction of another Thomas McBroom course in central BC will be starting this fall in Kelowna. I have not seen the site but it will be similar to the one in Kamloops (dry terrain with lake views). I have heard the site in Kelowna doesn’t have as nice views as this course but that the views are more “expensive.”
Here is the site plan for Tobiano (Kamloops)
The front 9 (holes 1 and 9 on left)
The back 9 (top left to right: 16, 17, 18, 9. bottom left to right:13, 12, 11, 10, 1)