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Beau Desert’s 18th fairway had suffered
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beautiful. Lying in natural heathland, it consists of a series of mounds and hillocks featuring naturally occurring species including heather, gorse, bilberry, mat grass and bent and fescue grasses. However, not so long ago, it was
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a very different picture. The 18th fairway was a mass of mud and concrete suitable only for excavators and tracked vehicles. The fairway was originally built
he 18th hole at the Beau Desert Golf Club at Cannock Chase in Staffordshire is
above old mining works and the ground had been slowly subsiding over a number of years. A repair had been attempted in the past, but without total success and, in 2007, the Coal Board decided to
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take action. After thorough investigation they found an underground void running through an area 100 metres long by 20 metres wide - and the fissure was right across the 18th. Course Manager Steve Mucklow, who has been with Beau Desert for over seventeen years, was shocked when he discovered what the solution would be. “They decided that, because of the size of the break, the best method of repair was to set in a huge concrete raft on the bedrock. It was a going to be a massive project.” Work started in late October,
2007 and the chosen contractor, Carmalor, began by excavating a huge seven metres deep trench. Special steel boxes had to be
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