“We know the bunkers are a problem, but we’re waiting on a renovation.”
Sometimes that’s true. Often, it’s a placeholder for doing nothing, for years.
Bunkers are the #1 thing golfers say needs work on their course, ahead of tees and fairways1.
Doing nothing is a decision and has a cost. Lost rounds/members and wasted dollars to replace sand that is cosmetic and fixes nothing. One course tracked its reactive bunker cleanup at $35,000 a year and climbing, on pace to pass $400,000 over a decade2. A full renovation fixes it, but it can cost anywhere from $550,000 to several million3, which is exactly why it keeps getting put off. That kind of money is a down payment on a new golf course but it is difficult to impossible to overcome the cost impact on the future of your course.
You don’t have to choose between doing nothing and doing everything. SandSave plus a simple bunker maintenance routine tackles the same root problem, at a fraction of the cost, with no capital approval needed.
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