Reynolds Lake Oconee’s Great Waters Course Gets Renovation
As I listened to Jack Nicklaus describe the renovation of Great Waters at Reynolds Lake Oconee—a course that he originally opened in 1992 and reintroduced last week—it was hard not to think golf’s greatest champion was perhaps describing himself, as well. “Irrigation wears out, bunkers need reworking. It’s just time.” Nicklaus will turn 80 in […]
Tom Doak is Building His First Course in Ireland
By Tony Dear In 1993, Tom Doak made a handshake agreement with the owner of Old Head in County Cork, Ireland, to design 18 holes but, for one reason or another, the plan fell apart. A decade or so later, another opportunity arose at Castlegregory, 10 miles west of Tralee on the beautiful […]
Wynn Las Vegas — Saved from the Chopping Block
Tom Fazio says it’s shocking that a golf course even exists on the Las Vegas Strip, and he’s the one who built the unlikely oasis in the Wynn Las Vegas’s backyard. Built and rebuilt it, actually. After getting a chance to play the second-coming of the reinvented Wynn Golf Club, it’s tough to disagree. You’d […]
Five Things to Know About Club Fitting
If you’re like me and have gone a while with your trusty troop of irons and woods, some days you may find yourself thinking, “I feel like I used to hit that club a little bit longer.” The truth is, you’re likely not wrong. Over time your clubs are depreciating just like anything else you […]
Bandon Dunes Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary
Twenty-one years ago, Bob “Shoe” Gaspar delivered a load of mulch to a construction site just south of North Bend on Oregon’s southern coast. Unsure of what was being built, he walked over a dune and saw a half-finished golf course. There was no clubhouse, the back nine was dirt, the front nine was being […]
Premier Properties: Desert Mountain Club & Community
Scottsdale, Ariz. There’s change in the air at Desert Mountain, where an increase in new members and real estate sales is showing a definite youth movement. Last year, Desert Mountain surpassed its all-time record for custom-home sales, nearing $200 million year-to-date. In the past six months, the community has welcomed 90 new members, with 85 […]
Grandfather Golf & Country Club
“There’s something going on here at Grandfather that is truly special.” That’s a simple statement coming from a friend of mine at our annual meetings for a nonprofit foundation at Grandfather Golf & Country Club, and one that seems to be echoed around every corner of the mountainside club in Linville, N.C. A Scottish man […]
Premier Properties: Dataw Island Club
Beaufort, S.C. The hospitality, friendliness, and kindness that you find here were a big draw,” says Michelle Seal, who moved to Dataw Island with her husband, Brian, this past year. “We really wanted to be in a small town, near the water, but without too much traffic. The minute we drove over the causeway, it […]
DLIII Redesigns Plantation Course at Sea Island
For the last 25 years—and largely under the radar—Davis Love III has been designing courses. With brother Mark, the Loves have done quite a bit of renovation work as well as creating some wonderful original layouts, among them Atlantic Dunes on Hilton Head Island, The Dunes Course at Diamante in Cabo San Lucas, and the […]
Links Living: Mirabel
There is no shortage of supersized private golf communities in the Sun Belt. Some boast membership in the thousands, clubhouses topping 100,000 square feet, and enough courses that members can play a different one every day of the week. Not so with Mirabel, located in Scottsdale, Ariz. But what this club lacks in size it […]