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Clifton layout Staying at home spices Grey Oaks Graham, Ranks use lush desert 60-foot NAPLES, Fla. — Grey Oaks Country Club has been designed with luxury fea- elevation change tures and amenities developers hope will ensure it will be one of Collier Country's Tonte Verde in Ariz. premier country club communities. RIO VERDE, Ariz. — Former U.S. Open Golfers at Grey Oaks will enjoy a Lloyd and PGA Champion , and Clifton-designed course that also has visual his partner, Gary Panks, are designing the design elements when traveling from tee to new Tonto Verde Golf Club here. tee. The clubhouse has been built on an "With so many of our projects under way elevated site with a spectacular side view that out of Arizona, we are very excited to be spans the 18th green and fairway. The designing a first-class facility right in our entryway to the community has also been own backyard," Graham said. "It will be an designed, with an arched bridge that show- excellent opportunity to showcase our cases the course and surrounding waterway. desert design philosophies in a spectacu- The first phase of Grey Oaks Country lar setting." Club, which includes an 18-hole champion- The site for this 6,760-yard, -72 course ship course, a contemporary clubhouse is characterized by a lush native Sonoran and custom estate homes on wooded Desert landscape, with mature stands of homesites, opened Jan. 29. ironwoods, palo verdes, and saguaro cac- It is being developed by Peninsula Im- tus. The Graham & Panks concept is to provement Corp. on 1,600acres of land owned Grey Oaks Country Club s par-3 6th hole. design the course with as little disruption by the Collier family since the early 1900s. to the native environment as possible, uti- Fifty-four holes of golf are planned at lizing the existing landforms and mature Grey Oaks. Foster moves, takes on new projects trees in their routing. Clifton's design sports five sets of tees PHOENIX, Ariz. — The The second nine holes at PebbleCreek, The 60-foot elevation change across the on each hole to accommodate a wide range design firm Keith Foster & Associates, west of Phoenix, will soon be under con- property, numerous natural washes and of players. Subsequent courses will be de- which has moved to new offices here, is struction, according to Foster. The first views to the McDowells and the Mazatzal signed in nine-hole increments as mem- beginning construction on two projects in nine holes opened in January. Mountain ranges, offer a unique opportu- bership increases. the area for Robson Communities. Foster has moved to new offices. The nity to create 18 distinctively different holes. The clubhouse was designed by Diedrich Irwonwood, an 18-hole master- firm is now located at 3110 N. 16th St., Dave Ritchie, president of Rio Verde Architects and Associates, with interiors planned community, is being built south Phoenix, Ariz., 85016. Its telephone num- Development, said construction was sched- by Image Design, Inc. of the city. ber is 602-279-4232. uled to begin by April. Beautiful and Consistent PLEX-ABILITY Golf Holes! Solu-Plex™ Fe New for "93" 15% Fe water soluble for fairways and fertigation systems.

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