Course where golfers are putting on the remains of broken bottles which they may have thrown away themselves.

Waste management is proving an important issue on the course, which has undergone extensive improvements.

Recycling and reusing is playing a major role in the building and landscaping at the Devonshire course, where a new multi-purpose clubhouse is currently under construction and many of the greens are being re-surfaced.

Workers are using crushed glass for the base layer of the greens and driving range. The glass comes from bottles collected at the Devon Springs recycling plant.

It serves as a solid base and provides excellent drainage, according to architects.

Environment Minister the Hon. Gerald Simons said this week that using the crushed glass was an "imaginative'' way to cut back on waste.

"It ensures that the greens drain quickly after it rains,'' he added.

High quality sand excavated from the site is being exchanged with construction companies for dark sand.

"This will be used as rubble cover at Pembroke Dump,'' said Works and Engineering Minister, the Hon. Ann Cartwright DeCouto.

She was touring the site this week to see how construction had progressed.

The $1.9 million project is "on budget and on schedule'' and is expected to be completed by mid-October.

ON COURSE -- Works and Engineering Minister, the Hon. Ann Cartwright DeCouto (centre) looks over plans of the Ocean View Golf Club. Also pictured (from left to right) are landscape artist Mr. Roger Steffens, Environment Minister the Hon. Gerald Simons, architect Mr. David Fisher and golf course manager Mr.

Wendell Tucker.