Great news for all that like strategic architecture and golf courses with a sense of place. Can’t wait to see what they do.
Posts Tagged ‘Ben Crenshaw’
COLORADO GOLF CLUB- BACK NINE
Colorado Golf Club has been awarded a Senior PGA in 2010 and there has been some speculation that it will one day host a major on the big tour. Because of the altitude some additional length may be required, but this could readily be accomplished. The property is expansive and could easily handle spectators. Denver [...]
COLORADO GOLF CLUB
I was fortunate to visit Colorado Golf Club during construction/grow-in and I came away thinking that the course had a lot of potential, but of course, the proof is in the playing. After a visit this summer, I can report that the potential was met and surpassed. I was blown away by how good this [...]
COORECRENSHAW.COM
Those of us who are big fans of Bill Coore & Ben Crenshaw have long bemoaned the firm’s lack of a website. No more. http://www.coorecrenshaw.com/ is a the firm’s sophisticated and elegant new home on the interwebs, full of information and pictures on their current and past projects. Matt Varney, developed the site for the [...]
CHECHESSEE CREEK – PART TWO
In the second half of my interview with Bill Kennedy, superintendent of Chechessee Creek, he discusses how Chaffin/Light, the club’s developer, went about making environmental stewardship a priority at the club. Bill lays out what measures he undertakes to develop animal habitat, limit water and chemical use and generally make the course as environmentally friendly [...]
BANDON TRAILS
During my February trip to Oregon, I played Bandon Trails for the first time. I am huge admirer of the architecture of Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw so I was very much looking forward to see what they had conjured up from the dunes and forests of the Oregon coast. Bandon Trails is yet another [...]
HIDDEN CREEK AT OUT AND BACK
Tom Dunne at Out and Back has a good slide show of Coore/Crenshaw’s Hidden Creek near Atlantic City, New Jersey. Created by photos Tom took while touring the course with Bill Coore, the slideshow shows the course in early season form.
I have only been around the course once, but I found it to be yet [...]
CHECHESSEE CREEK CLUB
Full Disclosure: I have been a member of this club since 2003 and it is one on my favorite places in the world.
Chechessee Creek is located halfway between Hilton Head and Beaufort, SC and only forty minutes from Savannah. The Coore/Crenshaw low-profile design is an excellent example of how a short course can play much [...]
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