The contour of the fairway, in fact, is almost overlaid with the high step between land and water, and the mounds over the fairway are followed by the wooden wall that contains the water. The shape of the edge between the fairway and the water is too sharp, natural actions create undulated shapes, irregular and casual.

5.0 Conclusion

Golf architecture depends in on the manner and style in which the existing character of the ground is interpreted and modified[6]. With the improvement of building machinery, the power of the architect on shaping the land has increased and on the other hand good land for golf purpose decreased at the same time.

All those factors, plus the desire of clients to obtain unachievable layouts on poor peace of land, brought too often the designers to go too far, with the intent to recreate amazing landscape that Nature shaped in thousands of years in few months.

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