Capturing the conversion of Gravel Pit to a Unique Golf Course
John Chapman Foggy days are just awesome, imo. When I checked the weather Saturday morning and saw it was foggy, I quickly got out to the golf course and took pictures and video. And then I decided to video a tour from beginning to end of the course. Here is that video:
The view across the course is getting better and better as it gets greener and greener. The view from the back, looking towards the Gravel Pit Golf clubhouse hill is definitely different today. Take a look at the difference:
In the beginning there was just rough land. An old gravel pit. Land was changed, grass was planted. Irrigation is needed, and along with that comes a pumphouse. This is the view across the pond to where the pumphouse now lives.
This before and after definitely shows off the startling difference between the two. These images focus very much on the tree and the hill – and the difference as we build out the Gravel Pit Golf Course.
From the corner of the Gravel Pit Golf Course looking across to the clubhouse hill. First you see the original as it was in the fall, and now as it is as of July 10, 2021. For sure, it will get greener and more awesome. And of course the clubhouse will be built as well. … Read more
This view is looking from the corner of the Gravel Pit Golf course along the direction of the side road and across the golf course. See how this looked before construction started, and how it looks as of July 10, 20201.
This is a closer view on the before and after of the corner next to the road of the Gravel Pit Golf Course. This whole area got a substantial workover.
This view is both from before construction, and today with grass growing at the Gravel Pit Golf Course. This corner is definitely different. A lot of material was moved into the very corner to build out from the tree.
There was a substantial amount of dirt work necessary to make the ‘ol gravel pit into the Gravel Pit Golf course. As an example, you can see here that the two paths are now one, and even the one looks a bit different.
This is what we lovingly call “the pit” at the Gravel Pit Golf course. It was hot, sandy, and miserable installing the irrigation during the very hot couple of weeks this summer. This first image is how the Gravel Pit Golf course looked as a gravel pit in the fall of 2020, and the next … Read more