This video was shot during a trip out to Bandon at the end of February, just as Jim and Tom Doak were pulling the last few holes of Old Macdonald together. We were discussing the yet to be finished seventeenth green and Jim quickly dropped to all fours and starts playing in te sand to help illustrate what they have envisioned. Jim goes on to discuss how he likes to work, some of what he learned from Pete Dye, and some of his general thoughts on how courses are built in the dirt. For anyone interested in golf course design and construction, it is an interesting look into the mind of one of the most famous design associates (now elevated to co-designer for Old Mac) working today.
For more with Jim Urbina and Punchbowl Golf click, here and here
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Very cool. Not only for the insight into how guys like Urbina and Doak work now, but also for the larger view of mentorship in golf course architecture.