Matt Allen came to Chambers Bay after nine years at Bandon Dunes. As the General Manager, he is responsible for making things go smoothly in anticipation of the 2010 U.S. Amateur and the 2015 U.S. Open. In this first part of my interview with him, he discusses the site’s history and how it came to [...]
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WILD HORSE
One of the perks of building the Prairie Club in the summer of 2008 was being only a few hours away from Wild Horse in Gothenberg. If this is not the best course for the money in the U.S., I don’t what is. Dan Proctor and Dave Axland put all of their expertise learned from [...]
JIM URBINA & OLD MACDONALD
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
REES JONES AT TORREY PINES
In anticipation of the Buick this week, we thought some of you might enjoy watching these videos produced by California Golf News. Many have probably already seen them, but we wanted to put them all together here. (The final video is the most interesting and revealing.)
Rees’s redo of Torrey certainly was a great stage for [...]
FRENCH CREEK- #17 BUNKER PROJECT
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This past spring I spent a little time helping out Jim Wagner of Hanse Golf Course Design at French Creek Golf Club in Elverson, PA. I was there to assist in making a few changes to a number of bunkers mostly due to maintenance issues. This video shows the work that was done [...]
TOM LEHMAN AT THE PRAIRIE CLUB
This video was shot the day before construction began on the Lehman course at the Prairie Club in Valentine, NE. It was a great pleasure working with Tom and Chris Brands. Both share my passion for golf course architecture and all of us who worked on the project are very proud of the work done [...]
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