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Cuscowilla Takes the High Ground
Posts Tagged: SOUTHERN PLAYERS GUIDE
Colorado Golf Club–A Story in Three Acts
Every architect’s ideal scenario is to be able string together unlimited variations of holes on a vast, moving, unencumbered property…. Read more »
Retro MetroWest
MetroWest Country Club opened in 1987 and for a dozen or so years it was considered one of Orlando’s better… Read more »
Rankings, Fazio and Camp Creek
Given the varieties of budget, location, sites, clients, temperament and eras, it’s fair to debate which golf courses are among… Read more »
Fleming Island is a Jacksonville No-Brainer
At first glance–from the road, the clubhouse, the scorecard–The Golf Club at Fleming Island looks like most 1990’s-early 2000’s Florida… Read more »
The Synchronicity of the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island
One of my favorite stories of Pete Dye involves the construction of the Ocean Course in 1989. Hurricane Hugo had just come aground… Read more »
The Shape of Things at Shingle Creek
Shingle Creek in south-central Orlando sits at the north end of the same basin of wetlands as Greg Norman’s Grande Lakes less than… Read more »
Tracks of Engh at Fossil Trace
The hole people talk about the most at Fossil Trace, a public course in Golden just west of Denver, is… Read more »
Sugarloaf Mountain–A Central Florida Ideal
[Note: This course is permanently closed.] Sugarloaf Mountain should be the model for future golf course designs in Central Florida,… Read more »
Running the Gauntlet at Harbour Town
Harbour Town (part of the Sea Pines Resort) is one of the few good golf courses I know of where… Read more »
