Hearn, an award-winning Michigan-based golf course architect, was contracted in August of 2022 to prepare construction drawings for a significant sand bunker renovation through the course, which is an original 1976 design of the late E. Lawrence Packard, a celebrated and prolific...
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a bunker structure which enables a golfer to get hold of the bunker as a three-dimensional surface even from a teeing ground or a remote position on a fairway side and can impart novelty to a course by affording the player standed on the course a visual...
Firm playing surfaces elevate any design but add in a great design and wind and you have the makings of a world top-50 course. The difficult decision to shut the course in 2007 and rebuild it according to a thoughtful Master Plan carried out by Kyle Phillips and his team has proven to ...
thrilling and authentic the game will remain. We are not particularly interested in trendy bunker styles or the latest fashions in golf course design. Instead we focus on findingoutstanding clientswho share our core values of substance, character and longevity. Parlaying twenty-plus years of top-...
The final set of 9 holes is called Sole. The Sole Course boasts an island green and a beach bunker and water comes into play from the 3rdhole onwards. The par-4 6thhole is particularly tough with two water carries and several well-placed bunkers. ...
WELCOME TO BRIARDALE GREENS GOLF COURSE Our golf course offers the classic test of tree lined fairways, well bunkered targets and large undulating greens. X A CLASSIC TEST OF COURSE DESIGN Briardale Greens features a par 70, 18-hole layout, measuring 6,058 yards from the Championship Tees. Op...
Built in a narrow canyon, there was no reason to hold high hopes for this course. Yet what emerged, courtesy of George Thomas and Billy Bell, is one of the game’s strategic design marvels. Together, the designers took bunker configuration and angled greens to new heights in the 1920s. ...
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(1-3 and 16-18). The bunker shaping for Phase Two on holes 10-15 was started and completed in October 2024. Phase Three will be undertaken in 2025. It has been over 30 years since the last changes were made to the course and it is wonderful to place bunkers more into play for ...
In 2001 Drew Rogers was accepted as a member of the prestigious American Society of Golf Course Architects. In 2003 Golf Inc. Magazine featured Drew as a rising star in “Golf’s New Breed of Architects†featured in their Ultima