“I’m nervous, but also excited.”
Gil Hanse’s redo of the TPC Boston course will be all the talk this week. Set your TiVo to pick up the golf, if you don’t have time to watch it live (or will be taking in college football’s opening weekend…)
Thanks to a mild December, the job was done in about six months, and the course is ready to go for Friday’s start of the Deutsche Bank Championship.
“We redid everything,” Hanse said. “We moved most of the bunkers and rebuilt all of them. We built five new greens and tried to make them smaller. We wanted to create a golf course that felt older than it is. Actually, we made it shorter.”
Hanse said that the idea to shorten the course “raised a lot of eyebrows,” but that the purpose was to make players think their way around the course more. The new design added fescue around the bunkers and a few more blind shots.
“We wanted to make it more interesting,” Hanse said. “The guys have to make decisions off the tee. They have to think their way around the course and explore different options.”
While this may not be a Hanse “original”, this week will definitely be highlighting the architectural side of golf.
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