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Smyers, Faldo Join Forces in UK Jacobson Transforms Sand Pit Into Yes Maas: Super accepts challenge of grow-in battle By MARK LESLIE The medical profession has pedia- tricians, podiatrists, internists and other specialists. Attorneys special- PACKARD PACKS PUNCH AT THE GENERAL ize in corporate, real estate, interna- GALENA, 111. — Eagle Ridge Inn & tional and other areas of the law. And Resort has begun construction on The the turfgrass profession has its own General, an 18-hole, par-72 golf course specialties: plant pathology, turf six miles east of here. The course, set to breeding, biogenetics, golf course open in the fall of 1995, was designed by superintendent. architect Roger Packard and pro golfer The 9th hole at Steve Smyers-designed Chart Hills Golf Club in London looks scary from the tees, but a Add one more, Andy North. It is located at the entrance generous landing area lies between the two sets of bunkers. thanks to certi- of the Eagle Ridge development. Named fied golf course after Gen. Ulysses S. Grant who was superintendent native to this area, the course will also Smyers, Faldo join forces in UK Stephen Maas. feature its own lounge, restaurant, locker Maas is be- rooms, pro shop and meeting rooms. By MARK LESLIE is also working with Brit Stenson of lieved the first ONDON — Taking a page from International Management Group on person to hang up a shinglu • i e as a Steve Maas BUSINESS UP, JOHNSTON MOVES Lthe Alister Mackenzie design course designs in Asia-Pacific. HILTON HEAD, S.C. — Golf course book and blending in the modern bent- Faldo's input on design is mainly golf course grow-in specialist, period. architect Clyde B. Johnston is moving grass playing surface, American architect conceptual, Smyers said. "We bounce a One job at a time — wherever it is his office here, due Steve Smyers and British Touring pro lot of ideas off one another, especially and whether resort, private or public to a recent in- Nick Faldo have finished their first about strategic values. Then we take — Maas' focus will be on new con- crease in business. collaboration, Chart Hills Golf Club here, those ideas and implement them into the struction. The new office is and are working on their second design. plans," he said. "It's like Jay Morrish and His luggage packed, credentials in located at 10 Office Smyers said Chart Hills and Gadbridge Tom Weiskopf. Jay said it best: Tm the hand and family in tow, Maas will Park Road, Caro- Farm, a daily-fee project planned for the author and he's the editor." show up even before the first spade lina Suite 100, suburb of Brey, are forerunners of more Chart Hills, a private club with a large of earth is turned and remain on site Hilton Head Is- work done under the Faldo-Smyers golf academy, opened here this spring. until the course is opened and a su- Continued on page 35 land, S.C., 29928. , T1 , signature in Europe and America. Faldo Continued on page 36 The phone (803- ^J**** 842-3367) and fax (803-842-6135) num- bers will remain unchanged. Morrish: COURSE PART OF BUSINESS PARK BROOMFIELD, Colo.—Professional v^A hisc golfer David Graham and golf course architect Gary Panks have been chosen to design the 27-hole Interlocken Con- &JTJL ag ference Resort. The project is the sec- ond-phase expansion of a business park development. Preliminary course de- From his early days working, sign is underway and construction is ex- first, with Jack Nicklaus in the pected to begin by early 1995. 1970s and with Tom Weiskopf from 1983 until this year, Jay Morrish has had a hand in de- DEER TRACK REMAKE ON TRACK signing some of the great golf SURFSIDE BEACH, S.C. — Deer courses in America. Managing Track Golf Resort is midway through a editor Mark Leslie interviewed year-long renovation of its North Course. him while walking, and giving The 7,200-yard layout designed by Bob accolades to the A. W. Tillinghast- Toski and Porter Gibson will include designed San Francisco Golf faster greens, changes in bunkering, Club. the addition of pine-straw areas and new Golf Course News: You've worked with The 7th hole at very private Double Eagle in Galena, Ohio, which Morrish says may turn out to be the best mowing patterns. Changes to the course of his American golf courses. ,, are on schedule, with the entire project Jack Nicklaus, with Tom Weiskopf and on set for completion by late summer. your own. What's the difference between working with a pro/designer and solo? GCN: What have you learned from losophies. I quite honestly am much closer Jay Morrish: I can't say there is that Nicklaus and Weiskopf? to the Weiskopf philosophy, or strategy, KERN BEGINS MISSOURI TRACK much difference. I hope I've helped them JM: A lot about strategy. What a good than Nicklaus'. For instance, in the old JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Construc- with some points they may have not under- golfer expects and wants to see. Of course, days Nicklaus would not allow you to tion has begun here on the Eagle Knoll stood, and I certainly learned from them. everybody has some slightly different phi- Continued on page 37 Golf Course. Designed by Gary Kern, the development includes some house lots that adjoin the course. Builder Tim Cox of Nixa hopes to finish construc- Jacobson transforms sand pit into double-green 9 tion within the year. An opening is sched- uled for summer of 1995. ONIEDA, Wis. — An 84-acre sand pit age constraints that to market," said Jacobson, of Libertyville. has been transformed into a par-36 golf would accommodate The double-green concept, coupled with course with nine double greens that will only nine holes of golf. multiple tees, will allow golfers to experi- IRWIN GOLF SERVICES MAY BE SOLD open July as Thornberry Creek Golf Club. "The area where ence the golf course differently each time it The Brassie Golf Corp. of Delaware "It's beyond comprehension to see it this course was being is played. has entered a letter of intent to acquire turn out like it did," developer Jack developed was satu- While working with Jack Nicklaus Golf Hale Irwin Golf Services. Brassie owns, Schweiner said of the Rick Jacobson-de- rated with nine-hole Services, Jacobson assisted with plan docu- builds and operates courses through- signed track. courses, so we pro- ment preparation for the dual-strategy Ren- out the United States and Canada. Irwin Each hole has multiple tees and two posed the dual strat- Rick Jacobson egade Course at Desert Mountain in specializes in course design and opera- greens or one large connected green. The egy as a means to pro- Scottsdale, Ariz. The dual strategy was tions management. dual strategy was incorporated due to acre- vide the client with a unique golf experience Continued on page 36 July 1994 31 that. It's like the finger is torqued. I'd like to find some 90-year-old con- 'The future is struction guy and get him on one of my jobs. here/ says GCN: There's something to be said for having a shaper or two who knows your style. Why doesn't everybody do that? Weiskopf of JM: We do limit it to three contractors. If we ask for so-and-so we usually get him. course design GCN: You talk about getting back to classical design. How do you define classi- By MARK LESLIE cal design? SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Wrapping up JM: I wish I knew. I can relate to his co-design work with ex-partner Jay courses I call classical design. They Morrish, Tom Weiskopf has formed his have some of these elements here. own golf course architecture company here Shinnecock, for example. There's noth- and declared the world is his stage. ing behind the greens and very few 'This is my future. This is where I want bunkers. It's a good example that you to be and what I like to do," he said of Tom don't need big mounds to stop the ball Weiskopf Signature Designs. "Playing golf going off the green. Let it go off. still remains a hobby." Tour pro/golf course architect Tom Weiskopf, left, and former design partnerJay Morrish, right, talk with GCN: What if you're Stimping greens at Weiskopf has worked to put together a Double Eagle Golf Club owner John H. McConnell at the Galena, Ohio, course. 10 or 11 — doesn't that become penal? design team since last November when JM: The greens should still be designed Morrish decided to slow down his design to hold the shots. Pinehurst #2 is a great work and Weiskopf opted to increase his Q&A: Morrish on design, superintendents... example. The edges of the greens go down own load. "I have two associates who will the slope and, if you don't put the ball in the do working drawings and help in the field Continued from page 31 Somebody's going to do it the way you proper place, that ball is going to run off and with the routings," he said. "It's taken bounce the ball onto the right half of this [developer] want it done. If you like what I down there. But what is so neat about it is, me some time. The choice is one of blend- green right here. He would close it off. We do, hire me. If you don't, hire whoever you Ross gave you the option to chip, pitch or ing personalities and philosophies and ex- will allow you to bounce the ball to a por- want.
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