TPC Boston’s 4th hole feeling the love
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 [...]
Tiger Woods and architect Gil Hanse weigh in on TPC Boston changes
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 [...]
“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 [...]
Tiger signs to design first US course
The news is out – Tiger Woods is going to design his first US course. It’s going to be in North Carolina at the Cliffs, a high end retirement community located in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Now, in this previous article, I highlighted Tiger’s design philosophy. It will be interesting how he uses the extreme [...]
We knew it was coming – the 8,000+ yard tournament course
It was only a matter of time, and it happened at a course that is getting serious consideration for a U.S. Open. Erin Hills in Erin, Wisconsin held a tournament over the weekend for a group of 38 club pros and amateurs with the course set at 8,400 yards. Now, it was for 19 holes [...]
TPC Scottsdale’s Stadium Course shuts down
This is an interesting environmental note. The course had been using gray water to irrigate its fairways.
Sales and marketing director Tiffany Nelson said the root structure on the course has deteriorated since 2000, when it stopped irrigating with Central Arizona Project water and switched to reclaimed water.
The reclaimed water has high salt content, which [...]
The Donald is not an open piggy bank
After pulling his $30 million dollar offer last week, Donald Trump has become an outsider in the ongoing soap opera of the Running Horse project. Hard to blame him – the original developer failed to acquire a number of parcels that would logically be part of the project. Trump wasn’t able to acquire the parcels, [...]
Running Horse running into road blocks
Well, it’s off again. Like a typical California star relationship, golf course architect Donald Trump’s courting of the Running Horse project has ended – for the 3,463rd time.
Donald Trump withdrew his $30 million offer for the bankrupt Running Horse golf and residential development in Fresno.
Trump representatives said they are frustrated by failed attempts to buy [...]
TPC courses sold; synergies found
The PGA Tour sold off three TPC properties to the Heritage Golf Group – Michigan, Eagle Trace in Florida and Piper Glen in North Carolina. David Pillsbury, president of PGA Tour properties, fired off this MBA speak that surely got him a free lunch from his boss.
“Our strategic alliance with Heritage Golf Group is a [...]
The Donald saves the Horse, doesn’t ride a cowboy
Golf course architect Donald Trump’s horse has finally come in – Running Horse is the Donald’s fine mare now for $30 million. Hold your horses though, the deal will have to be approved by the bankruptcy judge, however. (I have to use up the horse cliches because…)
And the world won’t be calling it Running Horse. [...]
