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| Web URL(s): | https://archive.lib.msu.edu/tic/bulls/article/2006mar15.pdf
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| Author(s): | White, Scott |
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| Author Affiliation: | Assistant Golf Course Superintendent, The Links of Carillon Golf Club |
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| Title: | Digging away at the links of Carillon Golf Club |
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| Section: | Midwest breezes
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| Source: | On Course. Vol. 59, No. 10, March 2006, p. 15-16. |
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| Publishing Information: | [Carpentersville, IL]: Midwest Association of Golf Course Superintendents |
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| # of Pages: | 2 |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Course profile; Bunkers; Renovation; Bunker maintenance; Costs; Topsoil; Clay; Ground cover; Labor
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| Facility Names: | The Links at Carillon Golf Club, in Plainfield, Illnois |
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| Abstract/Contents: | Discusses bunker renovations at The Links of Carillon Golf Club in Plainfield, Illinois. Explains that "the 27-hole golf complex had 79 large bunkers, most with high flashing, contaminated sand, and little or no drainage." States that Superintendent Mark Thibault "proposed an in-house renovation plan using skid loaders, dump trucks, shovels and only the core maintenance staff." States that "in order to control cost and maximize this opportunity Thibault decided to first reuse the original bunker mix to expand other tee surfaces on the par 3 holes and to renovate the first tee on the white course." States that "the last resource Thibault tapped, was contacting local developments for clay and topsoil...In addition, Thibault decided to reuse old greens covers to line the bottom of the newly shaped flat-bottom bunkers to aid in slowing...contamination." Also states that "Thibault was given the freedom to design each bunker and express a little of his artistic ability in golf course architecture." Concludes that "it is difficult to figure the labor hours saved to date, and over the long run many dollars will be saved. Flooded bunkers will no longer have to be pumped, there will be a large reduction in the maintenance of the sand surfaces, hand mowing around bunker complexes will be nearly eliminated and the additional native habitats created in out of play areas will all contribute to cost savings." |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 0 |
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| Note: | Pictures, color |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
White, S. 2006. Digging away at the links of Carillon Golf Club. On Course. 59(10):p. 15-16. |
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