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The Life of a Bunker
Posted on Feb 1, 2010 by Mike Young
How long should a bunker last? I’m amazed at the different methods I see when I go into a project on a golf course that’s been around 50, 60, even 80 years and someone says, "Oh, we’ve got to rebuild all of our bunkers; they’re worn out. " Well, how do you wear o...
MYD Golf Hired to Manage Sky Valley Golf Club
Posted on Jan 27, 2010 by Amanda Eldridge
SKY VALLEY, Ga. – MYD Golf, LLC, a golf design, construction and management corporation based in Athens, Ga., has been contracted to manage Sky Valley Golf Club, the recreational centerpiece of the 2,400-acre Sky Valley Resort located in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains when Georgia meets the t...
"For architect Mike Young, a veteran of the Georgia golf scene and also busy in Central America, this could be his much-deserved breakthrough course. Long Shadow combines two styles, with a front nine through wooded riverfront land and a back nine that is discernibly more open and heathlands in style, with a bolder, more scattered approach to bunkering. Unity in the composition comes by virtue of the rough-hewn fescues and native grasses that frame the holes. "