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RTJ II announces Green Proclamation

RTJ II announces Green Proclamation

Robert Trent Jones II announced a new “green” proclamation which includes, “ten tenets that have guided the company’s design philosophy and that the firm commits itself to pursuing into the future”. On the heels of Jones winning of the “best new public course” in Golf Digest’s rankings, this is a pretty hefty PR campaign.
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Charleston’s Wild Dunes loses 18th hole to Atlantic Ocean

Following up on an entry posted back in April regarding the challenges facing seaside golf courses, Wild Dunes, located in Charleston, South Carolina, lost most of the eighteenth hole when it collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean in October.
Beach erosion, which had been nibbling at the exposed hole, has taken the green and the final 300 [...]