Previous Next Dismal River – Red Course Mullen, NE2013 The second eighteen hole course for Dismal River Club, like the first, had to start and finish away from the clubhouse because of real estate and topography issues. What would distinguish it from the first course [and from its neighbor Sand Hills] was playing down to […]
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Previous Next The Punchbowl Bandon Dunes Resort Bandon, OR 2014 When we were building Pacific Dunes, we suggested building a giant putting green in back of the future clubhouse site: an ode to the Ladies’ Putting Green at St. Andrews, with its massive undulations and slopes. But the clubhouse was not yet designed, so there
Previous Next Medinah CC – Course One Medinah, IL 2014 Medinah Country Club used the proceeds from the 2012 Ryder Cup on Course #3 to fund the reconstruction of their members’ Course One. We began construction the day after the Europeans’ comeback victory in October 2012, and the course reopened for member play in 2014.
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Previous Next Simapo Island GC Haikou, China2014 * closed 2015 * My associate Eric Iverson spent three years of his life traveling back and forth to China, to create a golf course that closed before it opened, due to the national government’s crackdown on its previously unenforced ban on new golf construction. The setting of
Previous Next Tara Iti GC Mangawhai, New Zealand2015 The acclaim for Tara Iti continues to astonish us, even though we are well aware of the charms of New Zealand. The oceanfront location of the project was a great start, but the entire site was covered by a commercial pine forest, so 100% of the golf
Previous Next Domaine du Golf de Grand St. Emilionnais Bordeaux, France2015 Our first project in continental Europe has quickly become a hangout for some of the best players in France. That is partly because our clients, the Mourgue d’Algue family, are so highly respected in the game. But as our clients have told us, the
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Previous Next The Loop Forest Dunes GC Roscommon, MI 2016 For thirty years, I had dreamt of building a golf course that could be played forwards or backwards. When our client Lew Thompson said he needed a course that would wow people, and make them want to stay over and play again the next day,
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Previous Next St. Patrick’s Links Carrigart, Co. Donegal, Ireland 2021 It’s impossible to build a new golf course on raw duneland in the European Union, but St. Patrick’s is the next best thing – a complete remodeling of an existing links. We used pieces of old fairways for our 1st, 2nd, 7th, 8th, and 16th
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Previous Next The Mulligan Course Ballyneal G & Hunt C, Holyoke, CO 2017 What could we do to make Ballyneal a more compelling place, with enough water for seven more acres of turf? Much more than we thought, actually. The new Mulligan course consists of twelve par-3 holes, the perfect option for those who don’t
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Previous Next Gunnamatta CourseThe National GC Cape Schanck, Australia2019 Transforming an older course into a new one is difficult; there are usually too many remnant pieces that stand in the way of a total re-routing. The open nature of the Cups land south of Melbourne provided an exception to the rule. The previous Ocean course
