Pebble Beach and imitation dunes

[Emil Weber]

Reading through Geoff Shackelford's Grounds for Golf again, I came accross the Pebble Beach part where he talks about the imitation dunes which were added by Chandler Egan in 1929 and later removed because of high maintainence costs. I personally thought they looked quit interesting.

Do you like them?

Does anybody know whether they're likely to be restored in the future?

[Adam Clayman]

Emil,
 I highly doubt such a feat would be re-attempted. Firstly, the prevailing mindset that currently inhabits the corporate structure of the PB Co. is not what anyone could confuse with "purist". All one has to do is look at recent work done to the course to know this as a certainty. So, expectations of restoring the dunes like look at both Pebble Beach and Spyglass Hill is but a fantasy.

[Tom MacWood]

Emil
I like the dunes too...maybe some day. 

[Charlie Goerges]

Why doesn't that style of imitation dunes get used more often?

[John Foley]

I liked to look of what Egan tried at Pebble but wondered how difficult it is to keep the local vegaitation from encroaching on the exposed sand.

Does Cypress keep it in check or do they even try? I know from the pics I've seen of Maidstone it appears that there is little expsoed sand.

Anyone have details of other courses where there is a siginicant amlount of exposed sand? What about at Pacific Dunes or Friar's Head?

It would seem to me that inevitably nature would win that battle.