{"id":6109,"date":"2024-06-22T05:00:10","date_gmt":"2024-06-22T05:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/world-class-is-also-possible-with-little-water\/"},"modified":"2024-06-26T15:31:03","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T15:31:03","slug":"world-class-is-also-possible-with-little-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/en\/world-class-is-also-possible-with-little-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinehurst No. 2: World class with 50% water"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-668xds-14316be1a8373d0dbe45b8ab1e277fe0\">\n.avia-image-container.av-668xds-14316be1a8373d0dbe45b8ab1e277fe0 img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-668xds-14316be1a8373d0dbe45b8ab1e277fe0 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-668xds-14316be1a8373d0dbe45b8ab1e277fe0 av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_heading  avia-builder-el-first '  ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-5237 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-5237 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/No.-2_13th-Hole_klein.jpg\" alt='' title='Pinehurst No.2 13th Hole\/ Pinehurst Resort'  height=\"924\" width=\"1387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/No.-2_13th-Hole_klein.jpg 1387w, https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/No.-2_13th-Hole_klein-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/No.-2_13th-Hole_klein-1030x686.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/No.-2_13th-Hole_klein-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/No.-2_13th-Hole_klein-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/No.-2_13th-Hole_klein-16x12.jpg 16w, https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/No.-2_13th-Hole_klein-1500x999.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/No.-2_13th-Hole_klein-705x470.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1387px) 100vw, 1387px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-37epo8-a9e471298fdaa0dcaf8b711800b9d917\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-37epo8-a9e471298fdaa0dcaf8b711800b9d917{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-37epo8-a9e471298fdaa0dcaf8b711800b9d917 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-37epo8-a9e471298fdaa0dcaf8b711800b9d917 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-37epo8-a9e471298fdaa0dcaf8b711800b9d917 av-special-heading-h1 blockquote modern-quote  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_image  el_before_av_textblock '><h1 class='av-special-heading-tag '  >Pinehurst No.2: World class with 50% water<\/h1><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-k8ycpuk2-7346ebfddcb3b1befdc54074201b5725 '  ><div class='avia_textblock' ><p>The objective is simple: &#8220;Playing conditions are dictated by nature.&#8221; It sounds old, outdated, as if from times when high-tech irrigation software and systems did not yet exist. Perhaps, one could speculate, it comes from a place where there is also a lack of financial means to equip the facility in a modern way, to provide it with plenty of reservoirs and to maintain it at a high-tech level.<\/p>\n<p>None of this is true: <strong>Pinehurst No. 2<\/strong> is one of the most famous and best golf courses in the world. An 18-hole course at the <strong>Pinehurst Resort<\/strong> in North Carolina, where a normal green fee round costs between 320 and 595 dollars, depending on the season. And yet the players queue up. Not only because the U.S. Open is held here again and again.<\/p>\n<p>When <strong>Alex Podlogar<\/strong>, responsible for resort communications, says: \u201c <strong>The new mission statement for Pinehurst No. 2 is: The playing conditions are dictated by nature,<\/strong> \u201d he says of a turnaround in the maintenance and layout of the course that began in 2011.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Redesign with a new philosophy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At that time, the course opened after a redesign by the two American golf course designers <strong>Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw<\/strong> . On the one hand, the team tried to restore the natural and historic character of the <strong>Donald Ross course<\/strong>, but also made the 18 holes next to it significantly more resource-efficient.<\/p>\n<p>Classic rough played no role in this approach: fairways have been widened by up to 50 percent, eliminating any Bermuda grass rough that had been introduced in the 1970s. What remained were no longer graded zones of grass, but only two heights of grass &#8211; that of the greens and the rest. More than 40 acres of the area that had previously been irrigated disappeared and were replaced by natural sandy patches, pine needles and tall natural grasses native to the area. More than 200.000 of these tufts of grass alone were planted.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-25g454-3eee5ed76dd3938c0b08fb0c26da4139\">\n.flex_column.av-25g454-3eee5ed76dd3938c0b08fb0c26da4139{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-25g454-3eee5ed76dd3938c0b08fb0c26da4139 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><div id='av-masonry-1' class='av-masonry av-kjynse65-9935957a8226f97f512f2203a1dfcd68 noHover av-flex-size av-large-gap av-hover-overlay-active av-masonry-animation-active av-masonry-col-2 av-caption-always av-caption-style- av-masonry-gallery ' data-post_id=\"6109\"><div class=\"av-masonry-container isotope av-js-disabled\"><div class='av-masonry-entry isotope-item av-masonry-item-no-image '><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/No.-2_3rd-Hole_klein-1030x686.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/No.-2_3rd-Hole_klein-1030x686.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/No.-2_3rd-Hole_klein-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/No.-2_3rd-Hole_klein-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/No.-2_3rd-Hole_klein-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/No.-2_3rd-Hole_klein-16x12.jpg 16w, https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/No.-2_3rd-Hole_klein-1500x999.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/No.-2_3rd-Hole_klein-705x470.jpg 705w, https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/No.-2_3rd-Hole_klein.jpg 1387w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1030px) 100vw, 1030px\"  aria-label=\"image hole 3\"  id='av-masonry-1-item-5238' data-av-masonry-item='5238' class='av-masonry-entry isotope-item post-5238 attachment type-attachment status-inherit hentry  av-masonry-item-with-image' title=\"hole 3\" alt=\"\"   ><div class='av-inner-masonry-sizer'><\/div><figure class='av-inner-masonry main_color'><div class=\"av-masonry-outerimage-container\"><div class='av-masonry-image-container'  ><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"705\" height=\"470\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"wp-image-5238 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-5238\"  src=\"https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/No.-2_3rd-Hole_klein-705x470.jpg\" title=\"hole 3\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/No.-2_3rd-Hole_klein-705x470.jpg 705w, https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/No.-2_3rd-Hole_klein-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/No.-2_3rd-Hole_klein-1030x686.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/No.-2_3rd-Hole_klein-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/No.-2_3rd-Hole_klein-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/No.-2_3rd-Hole_klein-16x12.jpg 16w, https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/No.-2_3rd-Hole_klein-1500x999.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/No.-2_3rd-Hole_klein.jpg 1387w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\" \/><\/div><\/div><figcaption class='av-inner-masonry-content site-background'><div class='av-inner-masonry-content-pos'><div class='av-inner-masonry-content-pos-content'><div class='avia-arrow'><\/div><h3 class='av-masonry-entry-title entry-title ' >hole 3<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/a><!--end av-masonry entry--><a href=\"https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/No2_18fairway-1030x687.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/No2_18fairway-1030x687.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/No2_18fairway-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/No2_18fairway-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/No2_18fairway-16x12.jpg 16w, https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/No2_18fairway-705x470.jpg 705w, https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/No2_18fairway.jpg 1200w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1030px) 100vw, 1030px\"  aria-label=\"image hole 18\"  id='av-masonry-1-item-5240' data-av-masonry-item='5240' class='av-masonry-entry isotope-item post-5240 attachment type-attachment status-inherit hentry  av-masonry-item-with-image' title=\"hole 18\" alt=\"\"   ><div class='av-inner-masonry-sizer'><\/div><figure class='av-inner-masonry main_color'><div class=\"av-masonry-outerimage-container\"><div class='av-masonry-image-container'  ><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"705\" height=\"470\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"wp-image-5240 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-5240\"  src=\"https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/No2_18fairway-705x470.jpg\" title=\"hole 18\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/No2_18fairway-705x470.jpg 705w, https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/No2_18fairway-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/No2_18fairway-1030x687.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/No2_18fairway-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/No2_18fairway-16x12.jpg 16w, https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/No2_18fairway.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\" \/><\/div><\/div><figcaption class='av-inner-masonry-content site-background'><div class='av-inner-masonry-content-pos'><div class='av-inner-masonry-content-pos-content'><div class='avia-arrow'><\/div><h3 class='av-masonry-entry-title entry-title ' >hole 18<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/a><!--end av-masonry entry--><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-2yzn61-0f2e9c26608af3c0c3e4dc71d6f25d97 '  ><div class='avia_textblock' ><p>The redesign has dramatically changed the water management of the course, whereby it must be added: On a top course of the caliber of a Pinehurst No.2 in the USA every single blade of grass usually stands up perfectly and deep green. After Crenshaw &amp; Coore had 640 sprinklers removed and stopped the practice of <strong>overseeding<\/strong>, which is common in North Carolina, whereby new grass is sown for the winter to displace the then brown Bermuda grass, the situation changed. Instead of the previous 1100 sprinklers, there are now 450, and most of them are found around tees and greens, much less on the fairways.<\/p>\n<p>Golfers who hit the middle of the fairway today will be rewarded with perfect grass. &#8220;We put a whole new row of sprinklers through the middle of the fairways,&#8221; <strong>Bob Farren<\/strong>, Director of Golf Course and Grounds Management at Pinehurst Resort, told a <em>Golf Digest<\/em> reporter after the change. &#8220;But we knew, we weren&#8217;t going to have 100 percent irrigation coverage.&#8221; Instead, many of the balls roll into the outdoor areas and sandy area. It&#8217;s not high-tech, says Bob Farren. Rather, a return to the original style of play that prevailed in the days of Donald Ross, who completed the course in 1907: &#8220;If a ball didn&#8217;t land on the fairway back then, it didn&#8217;t end up in deep rough. He rolled over hard sand which made the course so unique.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And: in this way, water consumption was reduced by 50 percent. In 2009, 208,000 m\u00b3 of water was used to irrigate Pinehurst No. 2, now it is half that amount.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kaymer wins the US Open here<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the course has the quality of a major course: When Martin Kaymer won the US Open here in 2014, the greens were fast and hard, the fairways were dry but in very good condition. The greenkeeping team did not cause the drought on purpose &#8211; the little rain before the major tournament was the cause. When the women&#8217;s US Open took place a month later, the course was significantly greener &#8211; it had simply rained more.<\/p>\n<p>This new approach to greenkeeping was astounding and unusual for America&#8217;s golf scene, garnering plenty of attention &#8211; but also winning the 2014 <strong>Green Star Awards for Outstanding Environmental Practices<\/strong> . \u201cLearning how to do it without water\u201d was the headline in the specialist magazine <em>Golf Digest<\/em> in an article about the new method at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Pinehurst has come to appreciate this approach. Bob Farren&#8217;s greenkeeping team now has plenty of expertise in dealing with little water.<\/p>\n<p>Pinehurst No. 2 is still one of the best places in the world. In the current <em>golf.com<\/em> ranking, the classic is listed in 21st position. Just first class! 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