For everyone on the soggy East Coast:
The back nine at Cypress Point is about as good a nine as there is in golf, but to me it is also the most beautiful landscape that I have ever spent time in. We were blessed to tour the back nine in the evening of a spectacular, early [...]
Posts Tagged ‘golf course architecture’
CYPRESS POINT – BACK NINE
FRENCH CREEK
French Creek Golf Club in Elverson, PA is often overlooked when people discuss Philadelphia golf. Located across the street from Stonewall, the course occupies much more difficult terrain than its neighbor. Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner did a clever job of routing the course to create a fun, playable course. This video (after the jump) [...]
MID OCEAN- PART TWO
In the second part of my interview with Norman Furtado, he discusses the course’s push-up greens. They switched the greens over to Tifeagle a few years ago under the advice of Patrick O’Brien of the USGA. I was somewhat surprised that Mr. O’Brien did not suggest the replacing of the greens with USGA greens. (Video [...]
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 [...]
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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