On my trip to Bandon in February, I played Pacific Dunes for the first time since the Renaissance Cup, six or seven years ago. I was relatively new to golf course design and certainly new to the construction side of things when I last played there and I have since seen a lot more great [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Jim Urbina’
LINKS GOLF AND OLD MAC
The next installment of Kemper Golf’s videos from Old Macdonald. John Dunn hangs around with Grant Rogers and learns how to play true links golf shots with the putter from just about anywhere. This video will get you drooling and wishing you were in Bandon right now.
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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
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 [...]
MORE OLD MAC
This is a first of a series of videos commissioned by Josh Lesnik and Kemper Sports to promote the new course at Bandon Dunes. It is hosted by our good friend John Dunn, who is a golf journalist when he is not caddying at places like Pacific Dunes or Augusta National. The video features interviews [...]
JIM URBINA & OLD MAC (PART TWO)
In the second part of my interview with Jim Urbina from this past February out in Bandon, Jim talks about the bold features that the team incorporated into the design at Old Macdonald. The greens are some of the wildest that I have ever seen on any golf course. The sixth hole at the National [...]
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 [...]
OLD MAC
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A few videos of Old Mac have popped up on You Tube, so I thought I would post them here for posterity. The quality is not that good, but they give you a feel of the place. On the second video there is a brief interview with Mike Keiser. John Grothe, director of golf of [...]
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