Construction is underway on a new golf course, designed by Lester George, ASGGA, for the new Contentment Club in Traphill, North Carolina.
George’s design is inspired by the work of C. B. Macdonald and Seth Raynor, with each of the eighteen holes based on one of the Golden Age duo’s template designs. The course begins with a par-five Maiden hole and includes Biarritz, Redan, Punchbowl, Double Plateau, and Road holes, finishing with a Narrows eighteenth.
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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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.