This is the final installment of the my Aetna Springs trilogy. It is a truly special little course and worth getting out to see. It was fun working in such a pretty environment and great to get back there and see how it turned out. (Video and hole by hole review after the jump)
Posts from ‘June, 2009’
JIM URBINA UNPLUGGED
This video was shot during a trip out to Bandon at the end of February, just as Jim and Tom Doak were pulling the last few holes of Old Macdonald together. We were discussing the yet to be finished seventeenth green and Jim quickly dropped to all fours and starts playing in te sand to [...]
DICK RUDOLPH & AETNA SPRINGS- TWO
The second half of my interview with Dick Rudolph, the superintendent of Aetna Springs, features a discussion of eradicating the bermuda grass which covered the old course, his thoughts on working with Tom Doak and Jim Urbina, and the possible development of a new eighteen hole course down the valley. Since my discussion with Dick, [...]
MID OCEAN- PART THREE
In this last video of a three part series, Norman Furtado, the superintendent of Mid Ocean, discusses the challenges and rewards of maintaining a world class course in Bermuda. Mid Ocean is short by today’s standards, but is still plenty challenging, especially when the wind is up as it normally is in Bermuda. The PGA [...]
CONGRESSIONAL (GOLD)
A couple of weeks ago, I joined a friend for an afternoon at Congressional’s less heralded Gold course. While the Blue course gets all of the attention (hosting Tiger’s tournament and the 2011 U.S. Open), the Gold hums along at a very nice clip. To me, the best holes on the property, with the exception [...]
CH’S PHOTO OF THE WEEK 7
When one lives the life of a tortured Cleveland sports follower, and the team of his most preferred sport poignantly shits the bed to the Bedazzlers, the strongest onsetting urge is to remain quiet and fetally positioned. Without the surrounding calm or the requisite vacation days for such an exercise, this week my mind slips to cope in [...]
DICK RUDOLPH & AETNA SPRINGS
At the end of April, I was fortunate to get out to Aetna Springs in the northern Napa Valley for an afternoon of golf and a quick chat with Dick Rudolph, the course’s superintendent. I worked for a few months on the construction crew at Aetna in the fall of 2006 and I look back [...]
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