Mowing bunker faces

Not many new golf courses being built or courses built in the past have grass bunker faces like we do at the club. It just costs to much to upkeep them and more and more courses do not have a big enough staff to upkeep them. I love the design and layout of the course, but the bunkers make us a unique golf course. It gives the course character and offers a different layout then many golfers get to see at their own course. Bunkers on golf courses either have sand faces (Augusta National) or grass faces like ours. Both style of bunker can offer different and challenging options in upkeeping them. With sand faces there is the potential for the sand to wash off of the face during heavy rains. A few benefits to having sand faces are no mowing or spraying herbicides and fertilizers on them. Having grass faces adds the challenge of mowing them plus the added upkeep of spraying for weeds and fertilizing them. We use a mower called a hover mower or fly mower to mow the faces. This mower actually does hover above the ground and it works perfectly for our steep bunker faces. It takes four employees with two mowers and two blowers five to seven hours to mow all the bunkers on the course. Depending on how thick the bermuda is determines how long it takes to mow the bunker faces. I have attached a video of Jared fly mowing one of the smaller bunkers on number 18.