Ocean Forest Golf Club | Golf Course Management Magazine

Landscapes Unlimited is scheduled to complete its golf course enhancements project at Ocean Forest Golf Club in Sea Island, GA., this fall. At the private club, in collaboration with Beau Welling Design, Landscapes Unlimited is re-constructioning all 18 tee and green complexes with more than 37 acres of new grass surfaces and reimagining fairway bunkers. Installation of a new wall-to-wall, state-of-the-art irrigation system will also conclude in July, and the course will re-open this fall. 

 

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Landscapes Unlimited appoints Larry Barefield as Senior Project Manager | golfcourseindustry.com

Barefield has worked in 29 states and multiple countries during a nearly three-decade career.

Landscapes Unlimited has appointed Larry Barefield as senior project manager.

Over nearly 30 years, Barefield has become one of the golf industry’s most respected project managers.  His versatility will benefit Landscapes Unlimited’s new golf course builds and renovations spanning private, daily-fee and resort operations.

Supervising company field managers, Barefield will also closely collaborate with golf course owners, architects and others integral to the process of delivering decidedly positive experiences to all involved, including golfers.

“No construction company has done more for golf than Landscapes Unlimited,” Barefield said. “It has modern-day resources, planning processes and technology to make golf courses’ big pictures and little details sync, on-time, on-budget and of immense quality.”

Barefield’s career started as a 22-year-old at the construction divisions of Robert Trent Jones, Sr., RTJ, Jr., and other golf and civil construction companies. His work incudes Mirabel Golf Club in Scottsdale, Arizona, RTJ Golf Trail at Ross Bridge in Hoover, Alabama, and U.S. Women’s Open host CordeValle Golf Club in San Martin, California. In addition to projects in 29 states, Barefield’s imprints dot Ireland, the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas.

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Landscapes Unlimited to participate in groundbreaking open house at Contentment Golf Club in North Carolina. | thegolfwire.com

(LINCOLN, Neb.) – Landscapes Unlimited leadership will participate in the groundbreaking of the private, destination Contentment Golf Club in Traphill, N.C. on Wednesday, October 25.

An invitation-only open house for prospective members is Thursday, October 26 with tours of the golf course site and a dinner gathering at the Traphill site.

Over the past 18 months, Landscapes Unlimited’s Project Development Group has overseen all aspects of site planning, design and engineering, permitting, contractor selection, project administration and budget planning.  The company is set to build an 18-hole, championship golf course and direct clubhouse and amenity development.  Counterpart Landscapes Golf Management is undertaking membership strategies, business and operational planning, on the ground pre-opening activities and will assist with the course grow-in and grand opening.

Lester George’s original golf course design will pay tribute to 1900s legendary architects C.B. McDonald’s and Seth Raynor’s famous templates:  Alps (illusionary approach shots), Redan (narrow, bunker-guarded and sloped greens) and Biarritz (massive greens bisected by a deep middle swale and flanked by narrow bunkers).  Contentment members will repeatedly relish a blend of excitement and fair challenges on each hole.

Founders, full, corporate and ambassador membership sales are exceeding projections

 

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