Spring Valley CC (Salem, WI)
Dec 27, 2020 17:57:23 GMT -5
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Post by hickoryghost on Dec 27, 2020 17:57:23 GMT -5
I'm very close to completing this one. It was nearly done in TGC2019, but I never finished it and have since been working on converting it to 2K21. I'm mainly working on getting the grasses to look right.
This was the course that Langford & Morea did right before they designed their masterpiece, Lawsonia. Spring Valley CC was originally named "Our Country Club" and then briefly Salem CC when it sold.
Although L&M shaped the entire course and planned on it being very well bunkered, the original owner decided to leave them all as grass, probably due to financial constraints and then the Great Depression. Maybe that was a good decision, because it didn't fail and still exists to this day. However, the course could be really amazing with just the addition of sand and the chopping down of all the trees that have been planted over the years and suffocate the course currently. For this build, 99% of the ground is untouched and comes straight off of the lidar. The only 2 places that I moved any dirt was to restore 2 tee boxes. Langford is known for his perched up and undulating greens and steeply walled bunkering as he used a steamshovel heavily. The main task here was to restore all of the green sizes and the fairway mow lines to the L&M plans, which are very detailed and hanging in the clubhouse.
I changed the par due to technology advances as a few of the initial par 5s were only about 440 yards and there isn't room to expand. So this will probably be a par 69 at around 6,700 yards with 5 par 3s and only 2 par 5s. There is one hole that I can stretch if I need to make one more par 5, but it is a hole that was originally a par 4, so I'm reluctant to do it.
1st hole w/ 2nd hole headed away to the left. This shaping is sitting there in the ground on a course that costs about $15 to walk in mid summer!
Looking down on the 2nd hole, which takes you to the corner of the course near the fields.
11th hole- par 3 with a very cool cross bunker.
16th green complex, meant to be approached from the left side of the fairway with a kicker slope off of the right bunker.
Approach to the 18th.
Actual 18th. None of these trees were originally here.
This was the course that Langford & Morea did right before they designed their masterpiece, Lawsonia. Spring Valley CC was originally named "Our Country Club" and then briefly Salem CC when it sold.
Although L&M shaped the entire course and planned on it being very well bunkered, the original owner decided to leave them all as grass, probably due to financial constraints and then the Great Depression. Maybe that was a good decision, because it didn't fail and still exists to this day. However, the course could be really amazing with just the addition of sand and the chopping down of all the trees that have been planted over the years and suffocate the course currently. For this build, 99% of the ground is untouched and comes straight off of the lidar. The only 2 places that I moved any dirt was to restore 2 tee boxes. Langford is known for his perched up and undulating greens and steeply walled bunkering as he used a steamshovel heavily. The main task here was to restore all of the green sizes and the fairway mow lines to the L&M plans, which are very detailed and hanging in the clubhouse.
I changed the par due to technology advances as a few of the initial par 5s were only about 440 yards and there isn't room to expand. So this will probably be a par 69 at around 6,700 yards with 5 par 3s and only 2 par 5s. There is one hole that I can stretch if I need to make one more par 5, but it is a hole that was originally a par 4, so I'm reluctant to do it.
1st hole w/ 2nd hole headed away to the left. This shaping is sitting there in the ground on a course that costs about $15 to walk in mid summer!
Looking down on the 2nd hole, which takes you to the corner of the course near the fields.
11th hole- par 3 with a very cool cross bunker.
16th green complex, meant to be approached from the left side of the fairway with a kicker slope off of the right bunker.
Approach to the 18th.
Actual 18th. None of these trees were originally here.
