Trees provide enclaves of shade, their roots and debris obstacles to the

ball and their leaves an illusion of the sound of water. Poplar trees mark the edge of the swale and muscle wood creates screens to sun and shade and the movement of people and the golf ball as well as arresting the sping of the spiral itself. A single tree appears in a long expanse of grass just before t he fourth hole. Just as the entire course becomes a cool refreshing place in a field of sunswept grass, so does this tree intensify create an pool of shade on an otherwise exposed plain,