Bunker edges and shaping

Here's a close up picture of the bunker edges and styling on the hole 9 green complex. It highlights some of the texturing and virtual 'shaping'.

Although people generally refer to the apcd as C.A.D. (computer aided design) software. There's nothing 'aided' about the design at all! To me, that acronym conjures up a picture of the computer doing some advanced technological maneuvers in order to create a good looking and realistic rendering of a bunker or some such aspect of the course. Unfortunately or fortunately depending on which way you look at it, that's simply not the case.

It would be akin to giving credit to the digging machine manned my a real life 'shaper' as helping to design a bunker on a real course. To the shaper on a real course, the mechanical digger is just a tool. To an artist, the pencil and brush are his tools, the computer is my tool which I used to create something from my imagination. Like any other tool, it takes practice - lots and lots of practice to get the hang of it. It helps to be a student of golf course architecture too!