Modern Golf Course Construction Whatever The Weather

There is nothing quite so likely to spoil a good game of golf as a poorly irrigated surface

. The good walk spoiled relies more on perfect playing surfaces than probably any other popular sport: and even the nicest golf course in the world can become unplayable in seconds if the mechanics of its build are off. Modern golf course construction is a science, pure and simple an exact and exacting process, designed to keep fairways and putting greens in the prime of health from January to December, no matter what the weather.

The first thing to bear in mind, when thinking about having a golf course built, is what you want out of your installation. You need to adapt your golf course to the amount of land you have available, and you need to work out what level of golfing ability you want it to appeal to. These are your two key areas. Once you have indentified how much land you have at your disposal you can work out whether you are building a 9 hole course or the full 18. And once you have worked out what level of golfer you wish to serve you can work out how fiendishly you intend to mould the land you have.

Modern golf course construction, provided the underpinnings are done correctly, sees no obstacle where the actual gradients and layout of a piece of land are concerned. Land can be filled in, dug out, remodelled and generally played with until those perfect nine or eighteen holes are fully conceived and built. Bear in mind, though, that the whole process of making a golf course is not as simple, say, as laying a rugby pitch or a cricket ground. Golf needs four basic types of terrain just to get going: the rough, the bunker, the fairway and the green. That means that your golf course construction needs to be able to support four different types of terrain material, and drain it all, without a problem.

Draining a green on its own, or draining a fairway with no rough and no bunkers, would be easy. When you are creating a whole course, though, you need to be able to drain the green without turning its bunkers into a pair of swamps and drain the fairway without turning the rough into some kind of morass. Design is imperative: good, professional design and installation carried out by a company with as much experience in the technical underpinnings of golf courses as their playability and aesthetics. You want your golf course construction to have a couple of holes, naturally but you do not want it to get noticeable more fiendish after a heavy rainfall!

The two key words here, for making a great course that really works, are planning and time. Take your time over getting your course built, and you will know that it has been laid on top of the latest in irrigation technology. It will use the newest and most effective materials for the creation of its bunkers and it will have the best drainage available under its green. Plan your golf course construction to include all this and youll have a place to be proud of.

by: Kestrel Contractors

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