I would like to see the historical information that Mr. Albert Warren Tillinghast, from The Course Beautiful It is quite obvious that a little ingenuity in working the sand into the grassed slopes will produce an entirely natural appearance of wind-blown sand in great variety. This reduction is accomplished by contouring of the floor pit, brining long and gradual slopes into it from the fairway sides and grassing these, thus reducing by half or more three-quarters of the floor of the pit and the necessary quantity of sand, which is now confined to a much smaller area closer to the outside slopes of the green and eating well up into these slopes, from which the turf has been removed to receive it. Obviously this makes necessary the introduction of sand into the slopes and a great reduction of the floor area of the excavation, which now in reality becomes a guarding pit.
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The proper treatment of the excavated areas requires far less sand and grass in harmonious framing of the green itself and brining into full view of the player much of the sand of the hazard which is otherwise not visible from any distance when it is confined to a flat floor.
Now the covering of these tremendous floors requires a great deal of sand, an alarming expensive item when the work is remote from sections where the clean white sand is to be had. As the sloping banks are grassed they meet the floor of the excavated area and if nothing further was done about it there be this condition-monotonous banks of grass meeting the flat floor, which frequently is covered with sand. This removal of fill leaves excavations of generous proportions, particularly if the building has been done vigorously and impressively, as it should be. In the building of sand pits at greens and through the fairway, the work usually calls for the use of scoops, removing earth and fill generally from one area and depositing it over another area, close by, and thus providing material for impressively and contouring along natural lines. I have longed observed that surprisingly few courses show evidence of proper introduction of sand into the bunker slopes and floors. It has me stumbling to The Course Beautiful to see these example which examples that I might have over-looked and that this Tillinghast-expert John Colligan has shown us. I was a bit puzzled by that statement also.
Is that the little tourist train ride on the right side of the picture?Not sure if it even still exists.In the late 60s or early 70s it got held up and the tourists robbed.Probably the last great train robberies in this part of the world.
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