Archive for December 2007
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The library is open
I’ve completed the first edition of the library (link is also at the top of the page) that includes 40 books relating to golf course design and maintenance. While this isn’t the seminal list of books on these topics, it does provide what many consider to be the best books in the field. I’ll update [...]
Orchard Hills Golf Course will become soccer complex
Orchard Hills Golf Course in Waukegan, Illinois will soon trade its flying golf balls for flying soccer balls after the Park District’s board voted 4-1 to close the course and redevelop it as a sports complex.
District officials spent nearly $1 million studying whether the soccer, baseball and softball fields could be built on a lakefront [...]
Minor changes in store for Ocean Course and PGA Championship
The 2012 PGA Championship is still a few days away yet, but after the success of the 2007 Senior PGA Championship, it’s too early to discuss some changes planned for the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island. The big change will be the sand.
“I’m concerned about some of the ways the ball has plugged in bunkers,” [...]
Charleston’s Wild Dunes loses 18th hole to Atlantic Ocean
Following up on an entry posted back in April regarding the challenges facing seaside golf courses, Wild Dunes, located in Charleston, South Carolina, lost most of the eighteenth hole when it collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean in October.
Beach erosion, which had been nibbling at the exposed hole, has taken the green and the final 300 [...]
