DEVELOPMENT BRIEFS Dye is cast for ASGCA Alice takes gavel this month When the American Society of Golf Course Architects (ASGCA) meets in Toronto, May 12-18, Alice Dye will suc- ceedDenis Griffiths as its first female presi- dent. A design partner with her husband, Pete, since 1959, Alice has been a storied amateur state and national golfer as well as prime champion offorward tees in course LOHMANN BREAKS GROUND architecture. When son Perry was accep- ted by the ASGCA last year, it meant the ON EVANSVILLE PROJECT Dyes and both sons were ASGCA members Alice (from left), Perry and Pete Dye conduct a site walk at Thai Muang G. C., EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Construction —younger son P.B. having joined several a Dye Design in Thai Muang Beach, Thailand. has begun here on Eagle Crossing years ago. doing something in a golfers, everyone. The Foundation has Golf Club. The new 18-hole golf course • • • special niche to help. done some good work with research, and and practice facility will be the focal Golf Course News: What do you want By building low- with a living history. We have videotaped point of the 270-acre Eagle Crossing to focus on during your term in office? cost golf courses we about 20 old-time architects who are still subdivision. The golf course is being Alice Dye: We will continue all of the can reduce the price living, telling their experiences and phi- developed by BSH Development of programs that Denis [Griffiths] started: of golf and keep it losophies. People like Robert Trent Jones Evansville and designed by Lohmann stressing low-cost golf growing. The Pres- on tape, telling his philosophy — this will Golf Designs, Inc. of Marengo, 111. Con- courses and the President's ident's Award will be directed toward a be invaluable 50 years from now. struction is being completed by BSH Award. We also want to specific project: this year Junior Golf. So The environmental book that [ASGCA Development and Golf Creations of improve speed of play many programs are so big that we can't member] Bill Love put together was won- Marengo, 111. The par-70 course will and create a greater make a particular contribution, so our derful. It required a lot of work and dedi- feature bentgrass greens with identity for the ASGCA foundation will center on some area that cation, and it is information that only our zoysiagrass collars, Bermudagrass Foundation so that the is pertinent to our organization where we organization can provide. But we're such tees and fairways, and fescue grass industry knows we are can really be of help to the golf industry, roughs. The golf course is scheduled Continued on page 48 for completion this fall, opening for play in the summer of 1998. The hous- COMMENTARY ing development began last summer and now features 84 of the 245 home sites for sale. With irrigation and

VIOLA TO ADD NINE alcohol, hard part is AT PINE KNOB GC CLARKSTON, Mich. — A new nine knowing when to stop holes are under construction here at By DR. MICHAEL HURDZAN Pine Knob Golf Course. The additional holes were designed by West Bloomfield ecently I had a discussion with architect Lorrie Viola, whose first solo perhaps the dean of club profes- effort in Michigan, The Timbers near Rsionals, from one of the most Frankenmuth, opened last summer. distinguished and exquisitely mani- She's also undertaking a renovation of cured golf courses in America. We Burning Tree Golf & Country Club in talked about, what else, Tiger Woods' Macomb, two championship layouts prodigious length off the tee, and my in Ocala, Fla., and a nine-hole addition friend offered that maybe it was time to in Fairfield, Conn. Planned to inter- bring back fairway cross bunkers that twine with the existing 18, three of the make the classic courses of the 1920s new holes will wind their way along so popular and a great test of golf. Lake Fleming, while the other six will "Only then," he mused, "will par-5s offer the wildness of an Irish links stay three-shot holes and will 460-yard course, Viola said. Seeding is expected par-4s be more than a drive and short to take place in June. The new nine iron for the big hitters." will be open for play in 1998. Personally, as a fan of cross bunkers, The contours catch and enhance patches of sun and shade at Keith Foster's Texas Star Golf I applauded his observation, but we Course and Conference Center in Euless. both realized that such hazards would C-D TO HANDLE MICH. RENOVATION most seriously frustrate the average SHEPHERD, Mich. — The golf Foster set to unveil the Texas Star and below-average golfer, make for course design firm Conroy-Dewling slow play and add to maintenance costs. Associates, Inc. will handle a renova- EULESS, Texas — Hurricane Creek through a landscape of stacked rock I suggested there might be another tion and extensive master plan here at meanders by while century-old oak ponds, waterfalls and hill country ter- strategic solution, which would actually Winding Brook Golf Club, according trees and an assortment of native rain. more fairly increase the challenge of a to President James R. Dewling. The grasses outline the fairways here on The 7,000-yard track, constructed golf course for all golfers, speed up renovation will continue this spring the newest design from Keith Foster, by Landscapes Unlimited of Lincoln, play, reduce maintenance costs and under the direction of head profes- the city of Euless' Texas Star Golf Neb., will play to a par of 71. make golf courses better neighbors to sional Tim Dawkins. Improvements Course and Conference Centre. Sporting a spikeless golf shoe policy, their surrounding environments. That will focus on the tees and drainage The facility, located in the heart of the course will host The Collegiate idea was also a 1920s classic, but it was around a number of greens and fair- the Metroplex and 10 minutes from Players Tour National Championship a product of technological depravation, ways. Phase two, involving an updat- the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, opens on Aug. 12-14. not intelligent decision-making. ing and upgrading of the existing for play May 22. The state-of-the-art conference cen- This big idea was — to turn off course, is expected launch this fall. The constant feature of the 287-acre ter includes more than 5,000 square fairway irrigation. The course will be available for play site is Hurricane Creek, which winds feet of divisible space. Now my dear Mom taught me "all while improvements are underway. Continued on page 42 GOLF COURSE NEWS May 1997 39 DEVELOPMENT

AND FAZIO MAKES A chat with Alice Dye, madame president THREE AT REYNOLDS Continued from page 39 want to be very positive in all our Reynolds Plantation, a a small segment that we're not going to relationships. When the USGA pre- 4,800-acre residential be movers and shakers in environmental sented this Construction Education community located in issues. Program, we made a point to accept it Greensboro, Ga.,onLake GCN: During your term you also positively even though there was some Oconee, midway between want to get the ASGCA and its mem- fear that it might be infringing on the Atlanta and Augusta, bers better known. Can you address builders' or architects' territory. Our will unveil its third golf that? attitude was, this is good for the course this year. Reynolds National, designed by AD: I'd like to work with [the media] industry, and as long as you don't Tom Fazio, will join the to promote that they are ASGCA infringe we want to work with you and Plantation and Great members. I'd like golf courses built by encourage you. Waters courses when it any of our members to have their photo GCN: Judy Bell is president of the opens this fall.Reynolds and "a member of ASGCA" on the USGA while you're president of the National is a par-72 lay- scorecard. Most of the top 100 courses ASGCA. What significance do you see out that features two holes on anybody's Best-of List were de- in these two organizations having their along Lake Oconee, a signed by ASGCA members, starting first lady presidents at the same time? 19,000-acre impound- with Donald Ross. I'd like this known. AD: We've been lifelong friends. ment that is Georgia's I'd like it known that belonging to our We've played golf together, been on second-largest lake. Rey- nolds'original Plantation society is quite an accomplishment... teams together and associations Course was designed by We want everybody who is doing together. I don't know if there is a Bob Cupp in conjunction quality work to be a member of the significance. I don't like getting into with touring profession- society. men versus women. I think it just als Fuzzy Zoeller and We also want to work to design golf shows we can work together, Hubert Green, while courses to promote speed of I think it's important that other Great Waters was de- play. We can do this by £ women see that this field is open signed by Jack Nicklaus. building cart paths with SB to them. That is one of the material that is not too V W reasons I accepted the distracting and by curbing ^^ J position. Plus the fact that I paths so they can be brought / % think I can do a good job. I close in to the green. Also, IjL had the experience of Pete by crossing the fairway with bein£ president. And I paths, players can get out \ , ^^ think I have some good and walk back or forward to ideas. Plus at this point in their ball, rather than sideways all the my life, my children are out on their time. own, and I am not as active out in the We want to promote alternative field, so I have the time. The same with spikes. With them, we no longer have Judy. She has taken the time out of her to put in a separate walk path. Cart businesses and has it set up so she can paths become walkways, which is a big do this. Someone said to me, "Judy is advantage. It's very difficult, when the best president we've had. She's a you're cutting through a natural area in detail person." And I think women tend front of the tee, for instance, to make a to pick up the details, walk path through cactus. And we have GCN: Will having two women as to watch that our bunkers only require presidents heighten awareness of a certain amount of walk-in, so that it is women in the sport? easy to get in, rake and get out. AD: That's right. The USGA has We can design a lot of things to another woman on its board now: Carol speed up play. I'll be talking with the Semple Thompson. They used to have members about them. the men's executive committee and the GCN: You've championed forward women's executive committee. There tees since the 1980s. Has it been were no women on the men's committee, satisfying for you to see the complete and the women's committee was here transition so that every course that is [lesser in importance]. That changed built today has multiple tees? when Judy Bell went on the board. The AD: It's been wonderful. Everyone same thing happened with the PGA 20- has forward tees except some of the some years ago. It was all men. Then old-time courses. So many courses are they took on their first woman, afraid. They don't want to lose their GCN: A lot has been said about identity with their golf course architect. attracting and keeping women. Many And they're afraid that if they put in enter the sport but leave for one reason forward tees it will change their famous or another. What can be done to keep old golf course. They don't think much them? about putting in a new back tee, but AD: I think the resorts and others "Course uniformity is extremely important to they are very hesitant about putting in miss out. They have to have a course us and our players. InfllTRx makes the course forward tees. That's funny thinking. But women can manage, For more information Call more uniform. Prior to using InfllTRx, we it has come a long way. All new courses Our problem in women's golf has to had to do a lot of additional watering. are building in manageable yardage for do with slope and rating and all that, InfllTRx is better because of faster response 1-800-257-7797 all players. Women can't seem to handle the two- to turfgrass management programs on the GCN: Do you see more cooperation tee system. We have a bigger spread of course. Because we use so much InfllTRx, the with the other associations — PGA, strength in women than you do in men. recyclable, 260gallon SpaceKrafl® container USGA, Golf Course Builders Associa- But we have one tee. I wanted two tees is a more economical and environmentally sound choice." riAQUATROLS tion, etc.? for women, but I stopped doing that Formulating For Effectiveness AD: We want to work very closely because no one played them. So I'm just 5 North Olney Avenue with all those organizations. We were trying to build very nice forward tees, Cherry Hill, NJ 08003 U.S.A. 1-609-751-0309 very interested in the USGA's new Men have three sets of tees. They can FAX: 1-609-751-3859 construction education program, to see have the hardest set — 7,000 yards — that it builds a special niche of in-house and they don't have to play it. operations and that sort of thing. We Whatever the ladies' tee is, that's the are interested in everything they are one they want to play. And this is the doing because golf is growing and we problem.

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