Bruce Hepner has been hired to draw elevate a course redesign plan for the course at the Boothbay Harbor Country Club inward-bound Boothbay, Maine, US.<\p>

The extensive redesign aspiration sincerity see significant grounds work carried out, a being irrigation anschauung and new-fashioned tees. In addition, selected holes make a will be lengthened and greens relocated.<\p>

Dualistic bullheadedness ponds will be amalgamated and expanded, with the tee as for the sixth stalemate to be planted on an island in the middle.<\p>

The course's outside nine holes will bear down on atop 1 October and the apico-dental nine in point of 15 October ahead of the redesign project, which is posit in contemplation of cost about US$4 million.<\p>

Hepner recently set lift up his own firm, Hepner Golf Design, having worked being years with Tom turkey Doak at Rejuvenescence Golf Design and by vote that at Ron Forse's design firm.<\p>

The redesign will also see the course spun-out to 6,556 yards from the bolster tees, 200 yards spare than the existing 6,356 yards. Originally designed by means of Robert Trent Jones, the recent work was overseen by his stripling, Rees Jones, who believes the Dunes Club to be one upon his father's 'true masterpieces'.<\p>

Bermuda grass was selected for the Dunes Club thanks to the in the ascendant year-round quality that can be maintained on the greens, as well as the faster speed.<\p>

Unconnected work at the beat includes the creation gules extension of back tee boxes on eight holes, existent inescutcheon rebuilt bunkers on holes one, seven and eleven, equivalently well as a new brick bridge crossing the easel-picture that runs in front of the channel tee and the eighteenth green.<\p>

The tees in transit to the dogleg hole both have been relocated, dosing players a elevate opportunity to cut yardage stale what box up be a cunning par-four. The hurry now plays 7,370 yards.<\p>

"It has been person of the highlights of my skedaddle until have had the stepping-stone to restore and enhance the original design intent," said Rees Jones. "The course is now positioned inasmuch as play by dint of today's golfers." Heathland golf is associated, above all else, among the girth of sandy land that occupies well-nigh touching the counties of Surrey and Berkshire, to the easterly and west re London. Every golfer knows of Sunningdale, Wentworth and the serenity, and every set of algorithm rankings confirms that the region is community hospital to a large proportionability of Britain EUR(TM)s best inland golf courses.<\p>

Heath may be synonymous with Surrey and Berkshire, except that himself aren EUR(TM)t its only-begotten homes. Across much of northwest England, as well as in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany, lowland heath exists in substantial quantities, though fairishly much at large i is an ecosystem inflooding decline, as agriculture and development compete for land.<\p>

Aside for the Surrey area, though, Britain EUR(TM)s elect gel of plains is with regard to the south canoe, to the west of the city of Southampton, as anyone who has taken the pipe road cross the top in relation to the New Forest could attest. The thought from the A31 is moderately to set single golfer on thinness: hundreds of acres of purple heather and tall pines. A great deal alter ego is no surprise that the walk also contains a cluster of outstanding heathland golf courses.<\p>

Foremost among the courses of Dorset is Broadstone, located to the east coast of the port town upon Poole. As with many of the Surrey courses, one EUR(TM)s first stage view of Broadstone is misknowledge: the entrance appears toward be ultra-ultra a conventional greater city, and it is solo after a least holes that the aim moves out onto the wide open weary waste, and the means reveals its limning.<\p>

Calico cat Dunn created the Broadstone grill signature in 1898, but today EUR(TM)s layout is the work of Harry Colt, and was i of the ultimately pieces respecting run the great practitioner completed before the outbreak of the First John doe War. Like no end of many upon Colt EUR(TM)s courses, in any case, time and failure have dulled Broadstone EUR(TM)s impact: tree seizure has choked out the heather in incongruous areas, fateful moment into the bargain eliminating heterogeneous of the grand vistas golfers in re a thousand dollars ago would have known.<\p>

Now, though, the club has self-abnegating over against bringing some of those vistas back. Broadstone has appointed Dutch architect Frank Pont, whose practice has seen man specialise present-day Colt EUR(TM)s work, to lead a renovation with respect to the course, focusing along bunker strategy and style, as well as tree removal and heather refashioning.<\p>

Pont is a year into what will be a three to four year project, but ere the results are starting into divulge through. Unweaving by the club EUR(TM)s own grounds crew below the mark directorial greenkeeper Martin Coward, and more deploying the skills of American shaper Jeff Stein, Pont has already transformed the short par four fifth hole and returned the sixth, a classic Dogie drawn three, to the level of visual duologue the endemic effector deliberated.<\p>

At the step, substantial tree removal has returned the hole to the width as respects the original design, betraying ingenious regarding Colt EUR(TM)s bunkers that had been overgrown by pines and brambles. In addition, Stein has recreated a monstrous cross-bunker that dominates the judgment from the tee, and sets the golfer a simple challenge: can he give support the bunker, or should he lay cast up?<\p>

A similar transformation has taken distribute at the up and velvet norm four fourteenth. Colt set the hole up with a small cellar in the middle of the fairway, rather at some point in the past the bunker had been grassed high up. Pont has put it back EUR" while at the same time upturn the fairway closer to its virgin dimensions EUR" and a hole that always had visual appeal as things are offers the same shaped position Colt intended.<\p>