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As good and as well received as the changes were to the TPC Boston this year, more changes are planned for next year - although they won’t be nearly the scope.
“I like what they’ve done,” said Aaron Oberholser, who tied for second. “I think they could do even more.”
That is exactly the plan.
“Some of the [...]

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The focus on what has been by all accounts a tremendous success of the redesign of the TPC Boston course this week means that both Gil Hanse and Brad Faxon are likely to get more looks in the future for opportunities to design courses. Faxon and Hanse aren’t “a pair” like so many architect/player combos. [...]

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The transformed par 4 fourth hole at TPC Boston is generating a lot of talk this week, including perhaps the longest article on a discussion of a single hole that I’ve ever seen at the Boston Globe. Geoff Shackelford also weighs in on the hole, including photos from different angles. Unfortunately, since it’s the fourth [...]

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Just a few more quotes to add to the changes that will get tested starting tomorrow at TPC Boston and the Deutsche Bank Championship.

“It’s the mental aspect — we’re trying to make them think,” he said. “That’s the whole idea. You want to be able to test the players and make them come up with [...]

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Forsyth County, Georgia’s planning commission voted 3-2 to deny the rezoning on Tuesday night.

A developer lost the first round late Tuesday in a battle with Lake Lanier residents who fought a plan to turn Forsyth County’s oldest golf course into a massive, 772-unit retirement community.
Wellstone Communities LLC of Cumming has an option to buy the [...]

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A club with some local interest is facing the demand of a great location. Unfortunately, the neighboring homeowners are finding out the hard way that property they don’t own doesn’t give them the control they need to prevent it from changing. The course itself, which I played for the first time last year, is nice, [...]

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The University of Texas has revamped their golf course in an effort to draw “major championships”. The course used to measure a pedestrian 7,150 yards, but it’s been lengthened to a more Texas-sized 7,400 yards.
“This was a very good course from the start (in 2003), but early on we realized there was an issue with [...]

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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 [...]

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Geoff Shackelford has been highlighting the excellent changes that architect Gil Hanse and Brad Faxon have made at TPC Boston. In a word, from the photos, the changes appear excellent. It will be interesting to see how the course plays in next week’s Deutsche Bank Championship.
Holes highlighted as of August 27 (Updated as Geoff posts [...]

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Although we’ve known for almost a week, it was officially announced that Tiger Woods’ first American design will be at North Carolina’s Cliffs community. Below is the press release:
ASHEVILLE, N.C.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–It’s official: the world’s number one golfer, Tiger Woods, will design his first American golf [...]

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