We have a collection of announcements from the USGA to catch everyone up on: awards, venues, and championship details. First and foremost, storied and historic Pine Valley will host the 2044 Walker Cup. I know it’s 20 years in the future (well 19 to be exact…) but beg borrow or steal to get there. Fabled Pine Valley opening its doors to the general...
(Sand Creek Station, pictured above, was designed by Jeff Brauer, a rising star of a golf course architect from the great state of Texas.) The 3rd U.S. Adaptive Open — a national championship that showcases the world’s best golfers with disabilities – begins tomorrow at Sand Creek Station in Newton, Kan., and will be contested until July 10. The...
Ski Area Management, one of the most respected, intelligent, and important magazines in the winter sports world ran my story about how ski area golf courses can improve their designs with minimal cost. They really made it look good. And – BONUS! – Mt. Snow is renovating their golf course right now and over next season as well. We’ll have that story...
Get ready, golf world, because a new dynamo has appeared on the scene. From the same family – the Kaisers – that brought you Bandon Dunes and Streamsong comes more than a proper rejoinder from Wisconsin, but rather another magnum opus. Already rightly famous for twin public masterpieces Sand Valley by _____ and Mammoth Dunes by, the resort recently...
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.
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...
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.
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...
Man, the hits just keep coming for Tom Doak. Dude, did you break a mirror or something? Yesterday brush fire ripped through a Colorado plain coming dangerously close to housing and Tom Doak’s redesign work at Common Ground Golf Course, a municipal club outside Aurora, CO. The fire came within feet of the 12th green. Here’s the latest. Hat...
Golf Channel will run my piece on North Dakota golf (Hawktree, Buly Pulpit, and Links of North Dakota), this week. Moreover, Golf Club Atlas held its farewell to Beechtre gathering last Saturday. My piece will be up soon. In the meantime, get down there, the course closes forever on December 7 to become BRAC housing, (Base Realignment and Closing). Also, look...
Golf architect Mike Hurdzan, who’s work includes Best New Public Course winner Bully Pulpit in North Dakota, was awarded the prestigious Donald Ross Award. According to the Cybergolf article: Hurdzan was honored for “being a respected, passionate voice of reason and knowledge for golf. Hurdzan received the award on April 30 during the American Society...
HAWKTREE GOLF CLUB 3400 Burnt Creek Loop Bismarck, ND 701.355.0995 888.465.HAWK www.hawktree.com Architect: Jim Engh Par – 72 EQ – 7/12 Diff. – 7/12 Design – Five and ½ stars Natural Setting – Five and ½ stars Conditioning – Six stars Cost – $60 peak, $50 twilight and replay+ cart $15 per person Value – Six stars...
THE LINKS OF NORTH DAKOTA 5153 109th Avenue Ray, ND 701.568.2600 866.733.6453 www.thelinksofnorthdakota.com Architect: Stephen Kay Par – 72 EQ – 7/12 Diff. – 7/12 Design – Five stars Natural Setting – Five stars Conditioning – Four stars Cost – $50 peak, $35 reduced Value – Five and ½ stars Overall – Five stars...
I crack up every time I hear Frances McDermott giving that Scandinavian “jaaaaa” during “Fargo.” But the secret is out, the public golf in Minnesota, North Dakota and Northern Wisconsin is no joke. North Dakota has a trinity of great, affordable public golf. Start with Jim Engh’s Hawktree. Located just outside Bismarck, the best point...