Bunker lips continue to grow over time.

There are several bunkers on the course that get played from a lot more than the rest. #1 green, both sides; #2 green right; #4 green left; #11 green right; #14 green right, #15 green right, and #16 green right side. With the added shots played, more sand gets blasted out and onto the area between the bunker and the green. Over time the bunker face gets higher, and needs to be cut down. It gets harder to keep sand on the high faces of these bunkers without adding more and more sand. When there is too much sand on the face, shots plug and balls are lost. This equals angry golfers! This condition had developed on the right green side bunker on #15, so it was time to cut down the high lip. Below is a photo of that bunker on #15 as we started the job.

The next photo shows Josh marking the amount of sand to be removed since we last did this about five years ago.

We scraped off excess sand and hauled it away, then put new sod down in it's place.

Once the sod was in place, we roped it off, and painted a white line denoting "Ground Under Repair." In a couple weeks the sod will be rooted and we can remove the ropes. We really need golfers to continue to exit the bunker out the back side once the ropes are removed. There is only a couple inches of sand on the bunker face so balls won't plug. If we have golfers exiting up and out the front of this bunker, it will get contaminated with black dirt and rocks. The only way to remedy this is to add more sand which we just removed. So please help us in keeping our bunkers rock free by exiting out the low side where there is more sand. Thanks!