ourse takes shape

Northlands
to open for
play in fall

STANDING ON the 7th
tee at Northlands Golf
Course on a sunny day last
week, a lawn mower cut-
ting green swatches across
a 8rassy knoll, it’s hard to

believe the new North

Vancouver District course
won’t be open until
September.

By Andrew McCredie
Cormmunity Editor

Apart from _ sandless
bunkers, the front nine of the
new public course looks in
shape for play.

But project manager Laurie
Craddock ‘says local golfers
won’t be challenging the Les
Furber-designed course until
September, when the front

nite holes will be open for six

weeks before being closed for
winter, The full: 18 will make
its debut next spring.
sneak preview last
Tuesday revealed the. wait
should be worth it.
P Furber ‘(the Alberta-based
esi of such classic
B. c ease layouts as
Predator Ridge, Trickle Creek
and Morningstar) has worked
his manicured magic, again as
much of the natural landscape
of the Northlands site has been
‘jf yporated into the. course.
Six course architects submitted
designs for Northlands, with
Farber’ 'S getting the final nod.
“We've been extremely
pleased with working with
Les,” district parks manager
_Cameron : Cairncross says,
adding that the Alberta design-
et-has used his Gwn crew and
equipment to shape the greens,
tees and bunkers. The rest of
the work is being done on a
contract basis.

Furber has also brought his
reputation as a scenery-friend-
ly. designer to ‘the course.
Large’ granite outcroppings

have been untouched to add a’
sense ‘of ruggedness to the ..

course, and giant cedar stumps

dot the course with their .

‘ majestic elegance. .
; hen we were in. the

” early’ stages of planning the
cOurse, we expected to have
Magnificent views locking out
On ‘to Vancouver,” says
Craddock. “But once we start-
ed laying it out and shaping
the front ri nine, we realized the

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NORTH VAN District
parks manager Camaron
Calrncross§ (loft) and
Northlands project man-
ager Laurie Graddock
refer to the golf courses’
mester plan.

true beauty of the course will
be looking the other way — Up
into the mountains.”

Indeed, the view from the
7th — one of several “signa-
ture holes,” according to
Craddock — draws the eye
past the fairway and green and

up into the lofty reaches of.

Mount Seymour. The Par 4,

quickly ‘as you ¢ can say spree " the m niker attached a’

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410-yard hole also includes a

towering tree left smack dab in
the middie of the fairway —
another of Furber’s sugges-
tions.

The front-nine was seeded
with grass last spring, and

- holes 10: through 18 will

receive the same treatment this
spring.
- Little evidence of the mas-

sive undertaking involved in

transforming a thick forest
into a golf course is apparent
Mount Seymour
Parkway, apart from the turf
shed located about 100 metres
west of Apex Avenue on the
Parkway.

But according to
Caimcross, the course’s con-
struction has been one of the
most ‘ambitious projects ever
taxen on by the district.

“We've had to blast out
rocks and move thousands of
cubic metres of soil to create
the forms,” says Caimcross.

To stop sediment from the
construction phase creeping
into creeks that nin across the
course, over $1 million was
spent to engineer a pond sys-

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Total project cost: $12.1
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