The highly acclaimed Winston-Salem course closed April 16 to make several structural improvements, including the change of the surfaces of the undulating greens from bentgrass to bermudagrass Tif-Eagle. The club will also complete installation of the Better Billy Bunker system in its 80 sand bunkers, improve cart paths and complete other updates around the course…
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Perry Maxwell’s 1939 course at Old Town Club to reopen this summer By BRAD KING Bill Coore is standing on the first tee box at Winston-Salem’s Old Town Club pointing toward a trio of bunkers flanking the right side of the opening fairway. On an unseasonably cool, spring morning, the soft-spoken, 67-year-old golf course architect –…
By DAVID DROSCHAK Whenever the architectural team of Ben Crenshaw and Bill Coore discuss Pinehurst No. 2 it’s not long before the two turn to the Tufts Archives, and how instrumental the museum – which is centered on golf, Donald Ross and countless other fascinating items – was in their restoration work on the famed…
By David Droschak The work is complete …. Now the reviews start. In what some have described as a bold move after two successful U.S. Opens and a unique USGA double-header on the horizon in 2014, Pinehurst Resort is ready to unveil the throwback design of its classic No. 2 course to the golfing public.…
Even a course as revered and respected as Pinehurst No. 2 failed to escape the golfing excesses of the 1990s, when the universal theme was large expansive layouts with plenty of green grass. Well, that’s all about to change at the famed Donald Ross layout over the next 12 months as the architectural team…