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Co Kildare, Ireland.
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Garnant Park Golf Club, Carmarthenshire, Wales

Garnant Park Golf Club was a very challenging but very satisfying project. The 18 hole golf course was designed and built for Carmarthenshire County Council, on a sloping site that had been an opencast coal mine from which over 1 million tonnes of anthracite had been mined.

At the preliminary design stage the site was in the process of being reinstated post-mining and still had a number of cavernous voids to be filled by the mining contractors.

Fortunately this design process had begun sufficiently early to allow for large parts of the golf course shaping to be integrated into the void filling and reinstatement works.

An added construction challenge was that the site had no topsoil and the budget available did not allow for the importation of it. The material to be used as topsoil was what, in mine reinstatement, is referred to as 'soil-forming material'. This is basically a crushed shale that does break down in a relatively short period of time but breaks down to a silty soil which does not drain well. Therefore even after completion of the main phases of golf course construction it was necessary to review all areas of the golf course and install additional drainage.

Taking all challenging factors into account the result is a very fine golf course that has become popular with golfers of all abilities in the Carmarthenshire and South Wales region and has hosted a number of events.

Carmarthenshire County Council manage and maintain the golf course and do so very well with the resources available to them.

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