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The Earth Course at Jumeirah Golf Estates has undergone a serious course renovation forward of its internet hosting of this week’s DP World Tour Championship that serves to boost each its enjoying expertise and its sustainability credentials.
With a number of course modifications designed to enhance the aesthetic and enjoying expertise, one of many notable upgrades is the entire alternative of sand in all 100 bunkers on the Earth Course. In a dedication to environmental accountability, the extra sand is each new and recycled, with a very vibrant white look that enhances the desert backdrop. On the tenth gap, the bunkers have undergone a extra complete refurbishment, to make sure optimum enjoying situations and a strategic problem.
The primary enjoying areas on the course are flanked by wooden chips that add a distinction to the inexperienced course and sandy desert. To recreate the brilliant crimson aesthetic that has turn out to be synonymous with the Earth Course, the crew has changed all wooden chips surrounding every gap on the course forward of this 12 months’s DP World Tour Championship. The red-coloured wooden chips present a vivid color distinction and are all produced on-site by the upkeep crew.
Stephen Hubner, Membership Supervisor at Jumeirah Golf Estates, commented: “The Earth Course is recognised around the globe as being residence to the DP World Tour Championship and conclusion of the Race to Dubai. One of many course’s most redeeming options is the great color distinction that we are able to obtain with the brilliant white sand and the deep red-coloured wooden chips which line the aspect of every gap – offering the earthy look.”
Stuart Horwood, the membership’s Superintendent, added: “It’s a large enterprise for us to completely take away and change the woodchip across the course and the sand in every bunker, however one thing that we really feel is essential in an effort to keep the famed aesthetic that the Earth Course has earned. It was additionally essential that we accomplished this process in essentially the most sustainable method attainable, so we used recycled sand and produced our wooden chips on-site. The crew have finished a terrific job of enhancing the course for what’s a key date in our calendar.”
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