TPC Network Takes Off with New Construction
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DEVtLOPMENI BRIEFS Hot... Hot... Hot! TPC network takes off with new construction By PETER B LAI S he network of PGA Tour Tournament Player Club facilities will reach the quarter-century mark by the Tyear 2000 with seven courses currently under construction or in planning and others being discussed, according to Chris Smith, director of special projects for the PGA Tour. The latest course to come aboard is the TPC at Wakefield TPC at The Canyons in Las Vegas, which opened in October 1996, is one of DESIGNER MYSLINSKI JOINS JACOBSON Plantation in Raleigh, N.C. The Hale Irwin design broke the latest in the TPC network. LIBERTYVILLE, 111. — Jacobson ground Sept. 16 and is the first TPC course to be announced Golf Course Design has named Doug as the future home of a Nike Tour event, Smith said. are built with the capability of hosting a major tournament, Myslinski a design associate. "It [the number of TPC facilities] is expanding because of whether immediately or down the road." Myslinski, a landscape architect from the overall success of the TPC network," said Smith, adding Of the six courses currently under construction or in West Virginia University, has been in that TPC clubs have garnered a number of operational and planning, three already have tournaments planned: The the golf course construction business design awards. Energizer Senior Tour Championship at the Lanny Wadkins- for five years with Wadsworth Golf The TPC network runs the gamut from private to public to designed TPC of Myrtle Beach (S.C.) scheduled to open in Construction's Midwest region. He had resort facilities. With the exception of the TPC at Eagle 1998; the John Deere Classic at the D.A. Weibring-designed worked in the field as a supervisor for Trace, which yielded the Honda Classic to the recently TPC at Deere Run in Moline, 111., opening in 1999; and the two years and in the Plainfield office as opened (1996) TPC at Heron Bay, all the PGA Tour Golf Burnet Senior Classic at the TPC of The Twin Cities opening the chief estimator for three years. Du- Course Properties owned and/or operated by the PGA Tour in the year 2000 in Minneapolis. ties with Jacobson will include project host Tour events. In addition to the Myrtle Beach facility, three other TPC design assistance, document prepara- The design arm of the PGA Tour — PGA Tour Design courses will come on line next year: TPC at Jasna Polana in tion and on-site supervision. Services — works with the architect that the developer hires Princeton, N.J.; TPC at Virginia Beach; and TPC at at each facility to make sure the Tour's needs are ad- Snoqualmie in Seattle. AURORA TABS KAVANAUGH dressed. A PGA Tour player is usually also involved as a There's a huge benefit to tournament sponsors who use a AURORA, Colo. — The city of Au- consultant or designer on the project. "Player involvement is TPC venue to host their tournament, Smith said. It gives rora, Colorado/Golf Division has re- important in the design of all TPC courses," Smith said. "All Continued on page 24 tained Kenneth M. Kavanaugh Golf Design, of Tucson, Ariz, for a new project called The Homestead at Murphy Creek. This 18-hole daily-fee $10M in working course will be located in the rolling foothills of the Rocky Mountains with capital pumped a projected construction date of fall. Kavanaugh was also selected as archi- tect for the destination time share re- into Golden Bear sort project, Seven Canyons, for the NORTH PALM BEACH, Fla. — Golden New Mexico & Arizona Land Co, in Bear Golf, Inc. has announced comple- the majestic red rocks setting of tion of a definitive credit agreement with Sedona, Arizona. SunTrust Bank for a $10 million revolv- ing credit facility to be used to finance the LANDFILLS TO BE TRANSFORMED working capital needed to fund the QUINCY, Mass. — Quarry Hills company's continued Associates has gotten the go-ahead to growth as well as for build a 27-hole public golf facility on general corporate two contiguous landfills in the neigh- purposes. boring towns of Quincy and Milton. "We are pleased Part of the construction of the 27-hole to have arranged ad- facility, to be called Quarry Hills, is ditional working being supported by fill from the mas- capital financing, sive Central Artery roadway and tun- especially for our nel project taking place in downtown rapidly growing Jack Nicklaus Boston. The proposed 446-acre Quarry Paragon Construction division, which Hills would include a 27-hole golf through June ... has won contract course, a clubhouse, range, softball The 17th hole at Old Head Golf Links shows off an 18th-century lighthouse, one of its many awards in excess of $90 million for and soccer fields, basketball courts historical elements. projects expected to be completed over and other recreational amenities. Con- the next nine to 24 months," said Dick struction is expected to take five years. Old Head: New beauty in the Old Country Bellinger, president and CEO of olden Bear Golf, Inc. By MARK LESLIE Links, an 18-hole semi-private course HILLS OPENS SOUTHEAST OFFICE KINSALE, Ireland — The site sits with daily-fee play developed by "We are also actively pursuing pos- Arthur Hills & Associates has opened entirely in County Cork on a penin- Irishman John O'Connor, built by local sible additional financing which could a regional office in Charlotte, N.C. Ben sula whose cliffs plunge down to the contractor Haulie O'Shea and designed take a variety of forms including public Dennett, a design Celtic Sea. It contains what its archi- by the American Ron Kirby with con- offerings or private placements of debt associate with the tect calls "the most natural [golf] hole sultant Dr. Joe Carr, possibly Ireland's or equity securities, or bank financ- firm, will manage God ever built." And, now complete, most successful amateur golfer of all ing." the office and co- it stands as the model for new golf time. Under the terms of the commitment, ordinate Hills' mar- course construction in this country, "I've never seen anything like this in the revolving credit facility will mature in keting and plan- passing stringent environmental per- my life, and others I've talked to agree," two years with an option for a one-year ning activities in mitting that stretched over five years said Kirby, who has designed golf extension. the Southeast. The and resulted in an ecological sanctu- Borrowings thereunder will be secured -7—7—7777-j office is located at courses around the world for more by company assets, excluding certain golf Arthur Hills ary and protection for some fascinat- than three decades alongside the likes center properties and other assets 9710 Commons ing historic landmarks. of Robert Trent Jones Sr., Gary Player pledged to secure other long-term indebt- East Dr., Suite I, Charlotte, N.C. 28277; The property is Old Head Golf Continued on page 25 telephone 704-544-1445. edness. GOLF COURSE NEWS November 1997 23 .