GROUND UNDER REPAIR
To deliver on the changes that we’ve read about in Club Redevelopment, a lot of planning through creative golf course architecture, environmental impact assessment, and implementation is required. Much of the work is carried out by Lindsay Anderson and his team, but when it comes to major change and more specialist projects, outside help is necessary. Frank Lovell of FJ Lovell Landscapes has been the person that Badgemore has trusted to turn these plans into realisation. Frank’s 25-plus years’ experience and expertise extends from the construction of whole golf courses and new course features, to the refurbishment of existing ones. He specialises in heathland and parkland golf courses, utilising modern machinery with low ground pressure tyres for reduced impact to construction areas. Frank at work is a mesmerizing sight. Watching him move and sculpt earth using a range of mechanical diggers to create features on a golf course is like watching a sculptor at work with a palette knife and clay! Across the course improvement programme, we have seen Frank create new bunkers and sculpt existing bunkers on almost every hole, build the new first and fifth greens, install a large green for the short game academy, soften fairway mounding and create the new pond at the front of the 18th green. Amazingly, he carried out all the work, except the liner installation, on the new pond single-handed in just six weeks. Here we capture some of the images of the work in progress from over the years by both Frank and Lindsay’s team.
“Watching him move and sculpt earth using a range of mechanical diggers to create features... is like watching a sculptor at work”
RIGHT: JACK OF ALL TRADES, ERIC NOTT
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