The area around a Utah golf club where a sinkhole opened up earlier this year has been reinforced, and a workaround implemented.
The sinkhole at Fox Hollow Golf Club, American Fork, Utah caused the back nine of the course to be closed. The Wasatch Mountains, which are nearby, have experienced significant winter snowfall. This has caused record-breaking water levels to rush through the area. A log was also caught in the river flowing through the golf course.
With a few simple workarounds, 18 holes are back in action.
This is not the hole we were expecting! A huge sinkhole, with rushing waters, carved out a fairway during a golf match. pic.twitter.com/4fPa49r0zu
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The 10th hole on the course, which was a par 5, is now a Par 4, and the 14th has been reduced from a 180 yard par-3 to a hole that measures around 80 yards.
Susan Goebel told a local TV station that the public works director of American Fork, , said, “It was just too overwhelming and it gave way.” We have stabilized it. We brought in some rock and riprap for the walls to stabilize them.
We’ll need to repair that culvert by bringing in another culvert, adding more backfill and grading.
The course was created by Joe Williams in 1975 and first opened to play.
