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Golf Course Superintendent at Veenker Memorial Golf Course
3moJust wrote an article onthis yeaterday. Industry needs to discuss the "why" of bunkers more often. While I understand the current trend of courses filling them in or grassing bunkers...I don't like it. Bunker removal, addition, renopvation should be a well thought out process.