24 Asketch of the par-three fifteenth at Westhaven Golf Club in Franklin, Tennessee, where Billy Fuller, ASGCA, has completed a multi-year renovation. Fuller says the fifteenth was previously “extremely difficult” with its elevated green and eight-foot-deep bunkers a challenge for members. “Westhaven is a private club, with most members in the mid-to-high handicap range,” said Fuller.. “In my strategy, I lowered the green by two-and-a-half feet, introduced the ground game and made the bunkers on either side of the green three-to-four-and-a-half-feet below the putting surface. Three distinct flagstick zones with a couple of noses bleeding into the putting surface create up and over putts, depending on where your ball lands in relation to location of flagstick.” Fuller uses sketches on all his projects to show the client a proposed design. “I use a process I call ‘photo regeneration’, where I take a photo of the hole as it exists and then sketch the proposed strategy, using hash lines to emphasize features and slopes,” he said. “The final sketch is then used to create the final product for a ‘show and tell’, which is produced in Photoshop. “I find when members look at an aerial plan, they really have very little understanding other than the outline of features from above, hole centerlines, etc. The old saying, ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’ is apropos! This type of presentation is really well-received and understood.” • Billy Fuller, ASGCA Westhaven Golf Club SKETCHBOOK Fuller’s initial sketch for the new hole and, main image, the ‘photo regeneration’ he created to communicate his plans to members
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