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This has become
a major part of the ACA scope of work, as more and more private
clubs and owners of resort or pay-for-play golf courses realize
the need for upgrading, extending, or adjusting the planning
of their existing terrains. The reasons for this vary, but
can include:
- the need to remain competitive - for example, many
private golf clubs are suffering as their time-straitened
members increasingly prefer playing the burgeoning
number of truly excellent, 'day-out' destination golf
venues.
- encroaching residential subdivisions are creating ever-greater
insurance problems as the one-time safety buffers are eaten
away.
- there is an admission that recent golf equipment advances
have made original strategic designs in the golf holes
redundant, requiring rethinking of the golf course scope
and planning.
- additional land becomes available.
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In
all such masterplanning audits, the ACA group absorbs the
full thrust of the site problems and opportunities, reports
on these, and makes studied visual and descriptive recommendations
for course adjustments. Careful programming of the works
is set down, designed to minimised disruption to playing
conditions during all intended works' episodes. Often the
inclusion of a 'spare hole' is programmed, where nobody had
ever conceived it, to facilitate the construction program.
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