12 DIGEST Sherman leads design work at Watersound Watersound Club in Panama City, Florida, has hired Love Golf Design to design a new eighteen-hole course. The layout will be located north of Shark’s Tooth, the resort’s existing golf course, and east of the Watersound Origins community. Scot Sherman, ASGCA, is leading the project for Love Golf Design. Alongside the firm’s founders Davis Love III and Mark Love, Sherman is aiming to blend the layout into the existing natural vegetation of the site. “We’re pleased to be working with a routing that flows across white sandy dunes, with diverse native plant materials, along with beautiful pockets of old growth cypress and pine trees to frame the golf holes,” said Love III. “We are really thrilled with how the routing of the golf course is coming along at this point.” Davis completes bunker work at Pursell Farms Tripp Davis, ASGCA, has completed bunker renovation work at FarmLinks at Pursell Farms in Sylacauga, Alabama. The course was originally designed by ASGCA Past President Michael Hurdzan and Dana Fry, ASGCA, in 2002. “We were asked to design and oversee a bunker renovation to replace the old structure and make the bunkers as strategic and as visually interesting as possible,” said Davis, who, with his design associate, Kyle Downs, renovated every bunker. Robert Mitchell, golf course superintendent at Pursell Farms, says the impact of the renovation has been huge. “The 80-to-100 man-hours we used to spend repairing bunker washouts after a rainstorm is reduced to about 30 with the improved liner and drainage,” he said. “The bunkers are playable faster after rain, and the guest experience is greatly improved.” The design team for Watersound Club’s new layout, from left, Mark Love, Scot Sherman, ASGCA, and Davis Love III Photo: Watersound Club Photo: Farmlinks at Pursell Farms
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