Jim Urbina has quietly been Tom Doak’s right hand man on such projects as Pacific Dunes, Apache Stronghold and the Rawls Course at Texas Tech. At Old Macdonald, which will fully open in 2010, he has been elevated to the title of co-designer. I have had the pleasure of working with Jim on a number [...]
Posts from ‘March, 2009’
CYPRESS POINT- FRONT NINE
This video is a quick tour of the front nine at Cypress Point. The images and video were taken in the fall of 2007, shortly after the greens had been punched. They show the recently restored bunkers, which were a little too cleaned up for my taste.
MID OCEAN
I traveled to Bermuda at the end of October right after the PGA Grand Slam. I had long wanted to see this course because of its C.B. Macdonald design heritage. The fifth hole makes just about every list of the eighteen best holes in the world. After strolling the course and playing a round, I [...]
OUT AND BACK
Another new site has popped up that we feel is worth lauding. Our friend Tom Dunne (seen in this video of the inaugural Punchbowl) has started Out and Back a website that should be very different from your average internet fare. Tom worked as a writer/editor for many years at T & L Golf and [...]
CHAMBERS BAY
I swung by Chambers Bay in January. It was my first time visiting this course that has garnered so much attention in the last year. The USGA awarded Chambers Bay the 2010 U.S. Amateur and the 2015 U.S. Open and I had heard a lot of good things about the place through the grapevine. I [...]
BALLYNEAL
The video in this film (after the jump) was shot early one morning in late April. It shows the holes that go away from and come back to the clubhouse. Ballyneal is a truly special place and this is just a quick little video to give you a taste.
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