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Arnold Palmer is designing the North Carolina State golf course, which had it’s ceremonial kick off over the weekend.

The 18-hole, 7,025-yard, par-71 public course will be the first university course designed by The Palmer Course Design Company.

It will cost $11.6 million, funded entirely by private donations, and is scheduled to open in spring 2009.

“This is a long-standing project,” Chancellor James Oblinger said. “North Carolina State’s been talking about a golf course for over 20 years.”

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The course was designed by two N.C. State alumni, Erik Larsen and Brandon Johnson.

“They do a fantastic job, and what they do here will startle you,” Palmer said.

Along with being a home course for the Wolfpack’s men and women’s golf teams, the course will be a “living laboratory” for the university’s nationally recognized turfgrass program and home to its professional golf management program.

The highlights of the course will be its view of the Raleigh skyline and the “dramatic rolls” of the topography, Larsen said.

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