Sean/Carl,
The Cape (which was the photo) is a long par four, following the par three that Ran referenced.
Ward,
I asked Rod the other day whether he knew how much earth was moved and his response was “a lot less than any project I have done before”.
We are using fescue grasses throughout, which we found natively all over the site on our first visit.
Rob,
The wind is ever present. Amazingly for me coming from Toronto, how frequently the directions change. In the last week we have northerly, westerly and southerly winds. The westerly winds will prove the most challenging, but are also the least frequent wind we receive. The Les Suetes that Dan references are the most intense, however they are reserved for the winter and won’t be a factor during golf season.
Wayne and Henry’s book recommendations are great ones. I heard Alistair MacLeod read from No Great Mischief in Toronto and have had the good fortune of running into him in Inverness, now that we are neighbours!
Chris, thanks for those photos, which I had not seen. It is amazing to look back on that over a year ago and see how much the sight has transformed.
Here are four more:
This is a drivable par four, which can be seen from the tee, with the fairway roughed shape and the green in the left center.
Although not great from a construction standpoint, I wanted to share this one from last week. The rainbow ends on the tee of the short par three that Ran posted.
Looking across the 245-yar par three, which with its swale in front required full-bore drivers this past weekend.
Finally, here is one of the par three that Ran previously posted with the green rough-in completed. Although this is another lengthy par three, it is plays in the opposite direction of the above hole and therefore will play radically different.