10/16/2018 4:10 PM
Last month, an intoxicated golfer "drove" one of our rental carts too close to a hill on our 9th hole and it rolled down the hillside. No one hurt luckily. However, our insurance company came to inspect the area and said that since we have no curbing or protective railing on this hillside, we are at risk for liability should this happen again with more tragic results.
My employer has tasked me with finding various cost-effective solutions for this area. The entire left side of the ninth hole runs entirely along a hillside. We do not have wall-to-wall cart paths so the area along the hillside just goes from rough to native grass over the edge.
Some ideas my boss had:
Guardrails- find a company that does highway work and get a quote. UGLY
Jersey barriers....see above.
Curbing...what are the requirements for curbing? how does it secure to bare ground...with footing or rebar?
A 2-foot concrete wall running the length hole..costly.
Any other ideas?
Has anyone else ran into this type of problem?? I have already located several other areas of concern throughout the golf course that may have dangerous slopes and should have a safety barrier of some sort as well.