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Golf Course Improvement Plan Dundalk Golf Club
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- 1. Develop a Plan that may be implemented over a 1 to 10 year period
- 2. Develop the golf course for the enjoyment of members and visitors
- 3. Consider sensible budgets – tough economic times
- 4. Develop a course to provide fun for the average player
- 5. Create a golf course suitable to challenge the very best players and
suitable for hosting top class events
- 5. Proper planning of any proposal to be undertaken
- 6. Implement the proposals
2010 – 48th 2011 – 50th (-2) 2012 – 60th (-10) 2013 – 71st (-11) 2014 – 80th (-9)
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- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Starting Point
2.1 First Impressions 2.2 The James Braid Influence
- 3. The routing
- 4. Tees – Ladies and Gents and others
- 5. Greens
- 6. Bunkers – fairways and greenside
- 7. Fairways and rough – mowing regimes - definition
- 8. Woodlands / vegetation – how they impact on aesthetics and
the playing strategy
- 9. Practice facilities
- 10. Hole-by-hole analysis to include proposals for improvement
- 11. Paths
- 12. The strategy in moving forward
- 13. How the “Improvement Plan” can fit into the golfing calendar.
- 14. Estimated costs
- 15. Conclusion
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James Braid, Golfer and Golf Architect 1870-1950 James Braid work 1934
James Braid 1934 at Dundalk GC
- Work carried out by Stutt (The Golf Course Whitten and Cornish)
- We don’t have records for a definitive history
- Braid influence should be a marketing tool
- Braid style ought to be considered in future works
- Braid’s design philosophy: Now:-focus on greenside
bunkers, enhancing naturally occurring swales and hollows by greens and placing an emphasis
- n positional play from the tee and with
approach shots.
Braid’s Open Championship Record 1901 - 1st Muirfield 1905 - 1st St. Andrews 1906 - 1st Muirfield 1908 - 1st Prestwick 1910 - 1st St. Andrews
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Golf Course Improvement Plan The bones are excellent....the flesh needs work ... Course has a tired look to some of the features, particularly, the bunkers The Classic routing
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SLIDE 24 Golf Course Improvement Plan Scope of works: Phase 1
- Greenside Bunkering (1 or 2 phases subject to budget)
- Filling and reinstating some bunkers that are only impacting the shorter hitters
and causing a maintenance problem: 2nd (fairway RHS); 6th (fairway LHS); 7th (fairway RHS and LHS); 11th (fairway RHS); 12th (fairway RHS)
- Minor remodel works to green sites – run-offs, swales etc - In-house
Phase 2
- Fairway bunkering (subject to budget)
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Golf Course Improvement Plan ... If the job is worth doing, it is worth doing well... Thank you.
