Championship; 1987 U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links Championship; 1987, 1989 Ram Intercollegiate; 1988 Western Junior; numerous USGA 1421 Research Park Drive • Lawrence, KS 66049-3859 • 800- championship qualifiers 472-7878 • www.gcsaa.org Course statistics GCSAA Tournament Fact Sheet PGA Tour FedEx Cup Playoffs Average tee size: 6,800 sq. ft. BMW Championship Tournament Stimpmeter: 11ft. September 15 - 18, 2011 Average green size: 6,000 sq. ft. Soil condition: Clay Green construction soil mix: Cog Hill Golf & Country Club USGA (80% sand, 20% peat) (No. 4 Dubsdread Course) Acres of fairway: 30 Lemont, Ill. Source of water: Seven-acre reservoir with wells for back-up Golf Course Management Acres of rough: 45 Information Drainage conditions: Good Sand bunkers: 98 GCSAA Golf Course Superintendent: Water hazards: 6 Scott Pavalko Availability to media: Contact Scott Pavalko by phone 630- Course ratings 257-5451; fax 630-254-5451; email
[email protected] Yardage Par Rating Slope Education: B.S., Agriculture/Turfgrass Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, Forward 5889 72 74.7 133 2005 Years as a GCSAA member: 9 GCSAA affiliated chapter: Regular 6354 72 72.7 138 Midwest Association of Golf Course Superintendents Championship 7616 72 78.1 152 Years at this course: 1 Number of maintenance employees: 70 Number of tournament volunteers: 20 Course characteristics Previous positions: 2003-2011, Assistant Superintendent, Height of Primary Grasses Muirfield Village Golf Club, Dublin, Ohio; Cut 2000-2002, Greenskeeper, Reserve Tees Bentgrass 0.425" Run Golf Course, Poland, Ohio Bentgrass; Poa Previous tournament preparation: Fairways 0.425" 2003-2010 The Memorial Tournament, annua Muirfield Village Golf Club, Dublin, Ohio; Greens Bentgrass 0.105" 2009 The Barclays, Liberty National Golf Club, Jersey City, N.J.; 2006 The Rough Kentucky bluegrass 3.5" Nissan Open, Riviera Country Club, Pacific Palisades, Calif. Previous events hosted by facility: 1991-2007, 2009-2010 BMW Championship/Western Open; 1997 U.S. Amateur Championship; 1970, 1989 U.S. Amateur Public Links
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Wildlife on the course 16th among the "Top 100 Courses You Can Play in the U.S." for 1998. In the category of "America's 100 Greatest Courses," Golf Digest Beaver; Bobcat; Coyote; Deer; Fish; Hawk; ranked it 59th for 1995-96, and 40th for 99- Mole; Muskrat; Rabbit; Raccoon; Snakes; 2000. GOLFWEEK ranked it 16th in the Squirrel; Turtle; Woodpecker; Several different category of "America's 100 Best Modern species of birds Courses" for 1997, 27th for 1998 and 29th for 1999.
Dubsdread reopened the spring of 2009 after a Interesting and historical course- $5.2 million renovation was completed, a related facts project led by Rees Jones that began after Cog Hill hosted the 2007 BMW. Changes included In 1926-27, a golf course was built by manual the reconstructing of all greens and tee labor and horse drawn equipment. This back- complexes, reshaping of the fairways, a new breaking work produced Cog Hill No. 1. It risk-reward pond on No. 7, significant tree opened on Fourth of July weekend, 1927. The management, the repositioning and sculpting of original No. 2 course opened in the fall of 1929. all 98 bunkers, a new irrigation system, additional drainage, and Sub-Air aeration and Despite 12 years of the Great Depression, the moisture removal systems were installed on all golf course prospered and the people who had 19 greens (including the practice green). money continued to make their way to Cog Hill. In 1963 Dick Wilson was hired to build a third course. After completing that design, he was then asked to build a fourth course that would Course architect/date: be good enough to hold a national Open or Dick Wilson and Joe Lee, 1964 PGA Championship. Wilson agreed, but unfortunately, passed away before finishing the Golf course builder/date: project and Joe Lee completed the course. Cog Wadsworth Contruction, 2008 Hill has also added five holes adjacent to parts of courses No. 2 and 4 to play during Most recent redesign/renovation: construction and renovation projects. Rees Jones, 2008
Over the years, Jemsek Golf and Cog Hill have hosted many national championships. Cog Hill Other key course personnel hosted the 1970 and 1989 USGA Men's Public Links Championship, the 1987 U.S. Women's Public Links Championship, the 1988 Western Ken Lapp, Director of Courses Junior and numerous U.S. Open qualifiers and Frank Latzko (No. 1 & No. 3 Courses), Men's Public Links qualifiers. In 1991 the Golf Course Superintendent/Irrigation Western Golf Association brought the Western Technician/Horticulturist Open to the Dubsdread course at Cog Hill Gebcio Hernandez, where the tournament remained until 2007. Cog Golf Course Superintendent (Course Hill hosted the third leg of the PGA Tour's No. 2) FedEx Cup Playoffs, the BMW Championship, Nick Marfise, Assistant Superintendent in 2007, and it returns 2009-11. Sergio Cisneros, Assistant Superintendent Esteban Reye, Crew Foreman The Dubsdread Course was built from the Ricardo Zurita, Crew Foreman/Cart Mechanic natural terrain and is known for its many oak Cruz Rodriguez, trees lining the fairways and its large, Crew Foreman/Irrigation Technician undulating greens. The signature hole on Emiterio Mascote, Equipment Technician Dubsdread is No. 16, a 397-yard, par-4, with a Luis Cisneros, Equipment Technician dogleg left fairway and great views of the Frank Jemsek, Owner/CEO countryside. Its green is four-tiered and Nick Mokelke, General Manager surrounded by trees. Golf Digest rated Katherine Jemsek, President Dubsdread as the "Best Public Course" in the state for 1996, and GOLF Magazine chose it
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