Bruce Cadenelli took over as head greenkeeper at French Creek Golf Club, in the fall of 2007. I was there in April of 2008 doing a few touch ups on a couple of bunkers for Jim Wagner and Gil Hanse. Bruce was excited about the potential of the golf course and was hard at work [...]
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MATT ALLEN- CHAMBERS BAY
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]