Sand and gravel pit adapted into landscape

Much like the lone fir, several tall columns to the right of the 18th tee and fairway are an unmistakable sight from virtually anywhere on the Chambers Bay property.

Various companies mined the site for sand and gravel for decades until 2003 when plans moved forward with building Chambers Bay. According to the book “America’s St. Andrews,” the site was the single largest sand and gravel producer in the U.S. in 1992.

“They are remnants from the sorting bins,” general manager Matt Allen said. “The materials were collected into the bins and dropped onto a conveyor belt in tunnels that ran underneath and the conveyors took the material out to the barges on the pier.

“They are absolutely a nod to the past and maintaining a historical reference to the site.”