TPC Smorgasbord: Avenel, Boston, Myrtle Beach, San Antonio, Scottsdale
Updates from all over on the ever changing TPCs.
TPC Avenel
Geoff Shackelford heads off the updates, with the find of Leonard Shapiro’s WaPo coloum on changes being made to Avenel – who hopes to nab Tiger’s event from Congressional. The Tour is sinking some major cash into the deal.
The PGA Tour, Sullivan said, has set the [...]
Uhh… Pros trading their names for cash isn’t a secret
CNN apparently thinks it’s got a scoop from Jack Nicklaus – there are golf professionals out there selling out their name providing design services without ever setting foot on a site.
It is more the general trend of tour players assuming the role of designers with which Nicklaus is so uncomfortable. “There’s a lot of fellas [...]
“That is not what the game of golf is about, it’s not what people want to go out and do and play every weekend.”
Golf course architect Graham Marsh recently opened a new course in Australia and gave his thoughts on what some of the problems with the game is as related to design.
“There are probably more golf courses closed here in the United States last year than were actually opened. And the reason is we are pitching golf [...]
OK, OK – simple, sweeping – I got it
Hal Sutton and friends continue work on TPC Treviso Bay in Naples, Florida.
“We tried to keep the lines simple,” Sutton said, “pleasing to the eye, long simple slopes instead of sharp slopes.”
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Sutton says his design trademark is long, sweeping slopes.
And the second green was anything but.
It had sharp slopes, which caused a shadowing effect on [...]
“Maybe I ought to play this hole the way it’s designed.”
Mark me in the column of full support for furrowed bunkers. This week they make their return to the PGA Tour’s Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village Golf Club. Last year many of golf’s cry babies revealed themselves whining that a bunker might actually be a bad place to be! Nicklaus, who has been at least [...]
“The golf course design business right now is a little more of a struggle.”
As with things are going right now in the real estate economy, only two new courses will open in Massachusetts this year. This article contains a number of updates on New England based architects Mark Mungeam (who made the statement in the headline) and Brian Silva.
Mungeam said although most course design work has shifted to [...]
Nicklaus doesn’t get a charge out of playing golf?
Since Jack Nicklaus hung up the proverbial spikes, his focus has been on golf course design. But here’s an interesting quote from Nicklaus.
“Competition,” Nicklaus said, “is what I like more than golf. I love golf, but competition’s what I really like. Just to go out and play golf, I don’t get a big charge out [...]
Players’ thoughts on the Ocean Course
The Senior PGA Championship wrapped up play yesterday at Kiawah Island’s Ocean Course – a Pete Dye design. The Ocean Course will host another major – the PGA Championship – in 2012. The Ocean Course is known for its difficulty and the 1991 Ryder Cup – the so-called “War by the Shore”. A few of [...]
“I hope this never comes out as a criticism of Palmer’s design.”
Gil Hanse is one of the rising stars in the golf course architecture world – his work in and around the New England area has drawn a lot of attention for the creativity and interest it shows. His finished up “tweaking” of TPC Boston undoubtedly has given the course both a much better look and [...]
TPC Boston update and Oakmont nails one more tree
Geoff Shackelford has two articles of note on golf courses changes to significant courses.
The first is an update on TPC Boston which is being reworked by talented architect Gil Hanse (with Brad Faxon serving as player consultant) and the article couldn’t be full of more good news on the improvements that Hanse has inserted into [...]
