After most of this session's talks I went over to the Golf Course Architects Session. This generated a big discussion over what was making golf course construction so expensive. Hurdzan noted that a million dollar golf course probably does not include land cost. He said that land is under certain conditions donated. He showed a list of the various governmental organizations that may become involved in the permit process.
Union costs in a state like California can double costs.
One architect noted that satellite photography makes a record of what you did, good, bad, or otherwise. And the photographs get taken and stored on file permanently whether you ask or not. The C player should be on the practice tee not on the golf course. In both cases it was done with minimal seedbed preparation. I did like the concept of putting a vinyl plastic edging around the lip as both a barrier and a semipermanent edge.