#3 Bunker

This morning Alex and his crew began the process of renovating the front bunker at #3 green by demoing the old bunker.  As you are aware, the high flashed face on this bunker has caused continuous maintenance nightmares for our grounds crew as every time we have a hard rain it washes all the sand down from the face to the bottom of the bunker.   This bunker will be renovated in the same style used on the right front bunker on #1 and the bunkers on #10 where the steep face is replaced with a grassy face and the sand portion of the bunker is a mostly flat area at the base.

Here is what it looked like about a week ago.

And here are a couple showing how it looked mid-morning.  As you can see, it is still very wet and difficult to work with but fortunately the sun is shining and there's a little breeze, which will help dry it out.

Shaping and drain work will continue over the next couple days so that it should be ready by the time our load of zoysia sod arrives late this week.

In case you need a reminder, here is what it looked like following a heavy rain

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