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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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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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For those who have made the trek to Whistling Straits, the road less traveled is the route. Not exactly the easiest place to get to, even when 45,000 other folks are headed to the same place. The Wisconsin DOT is looking at putting an interstate ramp off I-43 to serve the golf course and it’s [...]

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We heard stories of doom and gloom - that golf course architect Donald Trump was out of the running for Running Horse. But the deal is back on - maybe.
Billionaire developer Donald Trump and Running Horse owner Mick Evans are on the verge of signing a purchase agreement for the financially troubled golf and residential [...]

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