Paul Albanese builds bunkers using “horsepower” at Christiana Creek Country Club.
Nothing says “old school” like horses and Amish people. So when golf course designer Paul Albanese took on the project of restoring the bunkers of Christiana Creek Country Club in Elkhart, Ind., to their original 1920’s-style, he got the idea of using real horse-power to recreate the classic course features. “Jokingly, we thought why not build these with horses — to really make the forms authentic,” Albanese says. “There are a lot of Amish farmers in the region, so we arranged to bring in two Belgium horses — Charlie and Judy — to construct the bunkers in the same way William Langford and his crew would have done in the 1920’s.”
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There’s even a video about it here: