Now playing on the Jay’s Plays Show on the Golf News Net Radio Network it’s rap producer and NBA basketball/MLB baseball expert DJ Q and golf architect Jim Engh on his new course in North Dakota!
Now playing on the Jay’s Plays Show on the Golf News Net Radio Network it’s rap producer and NBA basketball/MLB baseball expert DJ Q and golf architect Jim Engh on his new course in North Dakota!
This week we have three great shows for you on Jay’s Plays! A) Neil Sagabiel and Ryan Ballengee talk Tiger, the FedEx Cup, the Ryder Cup, and Neil’s two books, both of which will be reviewed right here and at Cybergolf; B) Bruce Moulton and Robert Trent Jones. Bru talks Tour, travel, Tiger, and the great golf courses of the UK and USA while Robert Trent...
Back 9 just ran my North Dakota golf peice, where we look at Hawktree, Bully Pulpit, and Links of North Dakota. The article is here.
Back 9 Network has run my Fossil Trace article. Catch it here. And have a happy new year. Enjoy the fiscal cliff you voted for…
Since forming his own design firm in 1997, Colorado’s Jim Engh has won four “best new course” awards from Golf Digest, been named “Golf Architect of the Year” in 2003 (ahead of such luminaries as Fazio, Dye, Jones, and Doak), built a reputation for getting world class work done on time and under budget, landed one gorgeous site after...
Crank up the Van Morrison in Parker, Colorado (Turn it up! Turn it up! Radio!) because Jim Engh should be celebrating yet another Best New Course Award, and this time it’s for an instant classic, Awarii Dunes, the first world-class public golf course in the fabled Nebraska sand hills region. For years golfers have regarded Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw’s...
I recently wrote that Tom Doak’s rise to prominence as one of the two greatest living golf architects most closely resembles the career arc of a band that’s a shoo-in for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Phish. Like Phish, Doak conquered the World, and did it his way showing everyone that all the mainstream artistic concepts and business models they had...
Let out a lusty yell if you’ve ever been to North Dakota. ***Cricket! Cricket! Cricket!*** I thought so. North Dakota seems all but forgotten by everyone except Minnesotans or Canadians: a flyover state, thinly populated, mostly due to its long and fantastically cruel winters and distance from any major metropolitan area. Well get ready for a welcome surprise...
Thank goodness I got to write about something other than Tiger.
Cybergolf ran my article on North Dakota public golf: Hawktree, Links of North Dakota, and Bully Pulpit. That’s Jim Engh, Stephen Kay, and Mike Hurdzan.
Like many industries, golf development has been severely curtailed by the economic downturn. Some planned projects are struggling for funding. Some which were ready to break ground are on now on hold. Some which recently opened with high price points struggle for rounds or reduce fees dramatically Yet some golf architects have viable solutions...
So my first piece for a new architecture column over at Golf Observer is up. I talk about Jim Engh’s new course in Nebraska called Awarii Dunes. I’ll be writing about Old Macdonald, Sagebrush, and many others in the coming weeks. Enjoy!
Jim Engh’s new golf design in the Nebraska sand hills is also getting a name change. The working title of “Nebraska National” has been scrapped in favor of a new name – Awarrii Dunes.”Awarii” is a word in the language of the local Pawnee Indian tribe from the region,” said Engh. “It means windblown.” I love it...
Here’s the link. What a great course.
I’ll write longer pieces over the next few days, but Masters week was made even more memorable by two excellent days of golf not far from fabled Augusta. About ninety minutes away, Mike Young designed an excellent, affordable public course, Long Shadow G.C. in Madison, GA, just one mile off Route 20, the Interstate that connects Atlanta and Augusta. With...
Tom Doak had the most high profile year and takes home this year’s award for some searing achievements in the most pressure filled jobs. He certainly rose to the occasion with Sebonack, Ballyneal and landing the new course at Bandon Dunes – due to open in 2010. Jim Engh gets the runner up nod and gives Dan Maples and Pete Dye runs for their money as the...