The Prairie Club has released two videos recently. The one above is of Tom Lehman talking about the design of the Dunes course and specifically the sixth hole. Having spent a great deal of time on this hole including shaping the green, I can’t wait to get back out there and see and play it [...]
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LIVESTOCK & GOLF
Tom Dunne over at Out-and-Back has put together this great short video about livestock and golf in Wales. Please go there and check out his thoughtful write-up on the subject. I am all in favor of allowing grazing on course as I think it establishes a great sense of place and more importantly is a [...]
THE HORSE COURSE
I really like this video by Geoff Shackelford about figuring out the land plan at the Prairie Club. It was great having Geoff, Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner out in Valentine for at least part of the summer. Their final product, the spectacular Horse Course, interacts with the canyon in way that highlights the unique [...]
KYLE FRANZ
I have worked with Kyle Franz on a number of projects, most recently at the Prairie Club for Tom Lehman and Chris Brands. Kyle is an immensely talented person, who is almost singularly obsessed with golf course architecture. He has worked on some of the best courses built in the past ten years including Pacific [...]
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 [...]