St. Andrews Course Maintenance Blog

Thanks to reader Bill for sending in the link to the blog by Gordon McKie, Old Course superintendent at St. Andrews.

It was interesting to learn that they rebuilt the Road bunker so close to the championship:

Big job this week was to re-build the Road Hole bunker - the bunker takes a lot of play and the face becomes very eroded with sand and the feeling was that it would not survive full practice sessions in a few weeks. On Tuesday morning four guys went down and removed the face and re-built the bunker in a day, which was great and I must say that it is looking in top condition now, we have been running a sprinkler at it through the day to keep moist and allow turf to knit together.

Comments

[Average Golfer]

That's how I'd like to play it. With a fence around it.