Great response! definately more pics coming
Day 2: We started early and hit the sod hard, this photo shows us approaching the edge (or so it seemed), we thought the sod should come up to the line projected by the level. It turned out that much sand needed to be added to back fill and meet the edge of the green in a natural contour.
"Hey lets get to work!" Carl Johnson pictured here, long time shaper, and brother of Eric Johnson, super at Bandon Dunes, Carl helped get the bulk of the sod layed down in an assembly line like effiency.
This is what the sod cutting process looked like. To answer the questions of Jim C, Brett M, and Jaeger about cost, refer to Tim N and his comments. There is also a great article in Paul Daleys Golf Architecture Vol 3. The sod was all fescue and stood up to some roughing up. We decided that grass up was the best look, after some debate. We cut mostly straight but each brick still had to be trimmed here and there. In building this 5' plus wall we cleaned out more than half of our turf nursery. Hence, my super was less than thrilled that we had been using more anchors than deemed necessary, at this point we made our strips a bit thinner.
In answer to the question of spray heads, I believe 4 or 5 of these were installed around the top edge of the bunker. The issue being to keep the sand wet so that it would not fly out of the bunker on a windy day, this bunker is so deep that the sand doesnt really blow out to my knowledge.
Tim W: Yes Jim can be very persuasive in a charming way..., about the road hole, I'm not sure how that really got worked out but Mr. Doak once illustrated to me how the back edge of the road bunker was 15 paces to the back of the real green and 17 paces at Old Mac. Cape Kidnappers #14 also has a road hole replica green, I'll have to pace that one off, it may actually be smaller?
Day 3 next...