Whistling Straits is just a course routed in the genius of Pete Dye. It has so many fascinating intricacies that I could spend a week just studying each hole. So, when I saw that Ben Crenshaw, a golfer and architect who I really admire, had made comments on the course, I was really curious to [...]
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The current bankrupt owner of Running Horse golf course says the deal for the course by golf course architect Donald Trump is dead. Trump’s lawyers say otherwise. Nobody seems to know what really is going on.
Current Running Horse owner Mick Evans says, “They’re really close. The Trump Organization chose to stop negotiations at this point, [...]
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Golf course architect Jim Engh has spent the majority of his career designing courses out west and dabbled a little in Michigan. Reynolds Plantation had 81 holes of golf from the likes of Cupp, Fazio, Nicklaus and Rees Jones. The first 81 holes are good golf, as you’d expect from those four architects. But Reynolds [...]
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Sagebrush is the dream child of PGA Tour player Richard Zokol. Located in remote British Columbia, Canada, the Zokol and Canadian architect Rod Whitman are designing a course that Zokol hopes to be on par with some pretty lofty courses - among them Augusta National, Sand Hills and Pacific Dunes.
“There’s nothing like it in Canada, [...]
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If Running Horse, to be renamed Trump International, Fresno, is to come to pass, it’s going to take a major effort on golf course architect Donald Trump’s part to make it happen.
It’s going to take a herculean effort to complete the sale of Running Horse to Donald Trump. Owner Mick Evans and his lawyers met [...]
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Golf course architect Donald Trump is getting a lot of press out of his purchase of Running Horse. The LA Times managed to snag the money quote from the Donald.
“They ran out of a thing called money,” Trump said in a telephone interview, “so I bought it.”
I know this [...]
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Neat story about architect David Druzisky, who moved his family from Phoenix to Idaho.
“I always enjoyed being on the golf course, especially with my dad,” said Druzisky, who grew up in Arizona and California as the son of a golf course superintendent. “Like a lot of us when we were kids and had a passion [...]
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Fred Couples is collaborating with architect Gene Bates in BC, Canada on a golf course named The Rise.
Freddie was as impressed with the architectural artistry of his longtime associate as everyone else viewing the layout situated a breathtaking 1,000 feet above the south and north arms of Okanagan Lake for the first time on Friday.
“It’s [...]
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Golf course architect Donald Trump pulled a fast one - a day after reporting that the Donald’s bid for the troubled Running Horse project had been pulled, the property’s developer accepted the Donald’s $40 million bid.
Owner Mick Evans signed a letter of intent with Trump for the sale of the troubled course, Evan’s attorney Harry [...]
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Pete Dye is building a course in the Tennessee mountains - 60 miles north of Knoxville - and he took time out to explain his design process.
“I’ll be doggone if I can see it (a course) on a piece of paper,” said the 81-year-old Dye. “And nobody else can either. But you have to come [...]
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