{"id":1034,"date":"2017-02-14T20:45:22","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T01:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/golfcoursebusiness\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2019-09-10T12:51:40","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T17:51:40","slug":"rosen-shingle-creek-features-new-arnold-palmer-designed-golf-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/golfcoursebusiness\/real-estate\/1034\/rosen-shingle-creek-features-new-arnold-palmer-designed-golf-course","title":{"rendered":"Rosen Shingle Creek Features ‘New’ Arnold Palmer-Designed Golf Course"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hole No. 17 – Photo Courtesy Rosen Shingle Creek<\/p><\/div>\n

By Scott Kauffman<\/p>\n

[Feb. 14, 2017]–<\/em>Rosen Shingle Creek resort revels in the fact it sits alongside historic Shingle Creek, the headwaters of the famed Florida Everglades. As it turns out, the AAA Four Diamond destination also happens to be at the headwaters of some world-class golf.<\/p>\n

Nestled next to its namesake tributary, top-rated Shingle Creek Golf Club is one of the main reasons the luxury resort is a true oasis in the heart of Orlando\u2019s congested tourist and convention-center corridor. This year, there\u2019s even more reason to revel in Rosen Shingle Creek with the recent opening of the newly created golf course by Arnold Palmer Design Company.<\/p>\n

For decades, the late Arnold Palmer and noted hotelier Harris Rosen reshaped their respective industries. Along the way, the two Orlando residents also literally changed the Central Florida landscape.<\/p>\n

Palmer, of course, put Orlando on the map with his personal Bay Hill Club & Lodge, which annually hosts the prestigious PGA Tour Arnold Palmer Invitational and benefits Orlando Health\u2019s Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies named after his late wife. Meanwhile, Rosen created one of one of the biggest and most respected independent hotel networks in the world\u2019s most visited city and helped establish University of Central Florida\u2019s renowned Rosen College of Hospitality Management after making an $18.2 million donation.<\/p>\n

Fittingly, Rosen and Palmer are now associated with the new Shingle Creek course, further accentuating an already-strong connection between the Orlando icons and their respective signature properties. For starters, the golf and hospitality icons nearly shared the same birthday (Rosen was born on Sept. 9; Palmer, 10 years his senior, passed away last\u00a0 Sept. 25 – 15 days after his 87th<\/sup> birthday.<\/p>\n

Indeed, there are a number of other parallels between Palmer and Rosen\u2019s new championship course, situated just a few miles from Palmer\u2019s former part-time home at Bay Hill. For instance, Shingle Creek\u2019s longtime director of golf Dave Scott started his career working for Palmer at Bay Hill. And acclaimed golf instructor Brad Brewer, who opened his namesake academy at Shingle Creek soon after it first opened 13 years ago, was a longtime Palmer associate as the co-founder of the Arnold Palmer Golf Academies.<\/p>\n

Scott, who opened the former Shingle Creek course designed by the late Dave Harman, another former Palmer golf prodigy and one-time neighbor of Rosen, can\u2019t wait to start showing off the resort\u2019s new Palmer Signature course.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s so exciting for me is we have had thousands who have played here before,\u201d Scott says. \u201cAnd when they come back and play the new course, it\u2019s going to be an entirely new experience. That was our goal. We wanted to make sure it was different when you see it and play it. But at the same time, you\u2019re going to be comfortable knowing you\u2019re still going to enjoy that same high-level of course conditions and guest services we\u2019ve always had.\u201d<\/p>\n

To be sure, the course will be unlike anything before. For instance, Palmer\u2019s senior golf course architect Thad Layton designed three totally new holes on a new 25-acre parcel of land owned by Rosen on the northern end of the resort, recreated numerous other holes to accommodate a future resort expansion with a new luxury tower, and updated Shingle Creek\u2019s aging course greens and infrastructure while maintaining the property\u2019s eco-conscious landscape mosaic.<\/p>\n

Some of the most noticeable changes made to the course were changing Shingle Creek\u2019s traditional green complexes formerly protected by bunkers and thick rough on the perimeter of the holes. Now, the new Palmer layout features green complexes that have fairway-cut surrounds or runoff areas, giving golfers of all levels more forgiveness and strategic options.<\/p>\n

According to Layton, his team\u2019s philosophy was putting strategy and variety at the center of the golf experience with design features that \u201charken back to the golden age of golf course design.\u201d In other words, Shingle Creek golfers will now notice elevated greens (featured on the opening hole) or newly designed cross bunkers strategically placed in the middle of fairways like the pot bunkers on the par-5, 567-yard second hole, drivable par-4, 375-yard No. 10 hole and brand new No. 14 hole, an exciting 307-yard reachable par-4 that wraps around a newly created lake.<\/p>\n

The latter hole is followed up by a newly designed 151-yard, par-3, which is now the shortest par-3 hole on the course, but by no means the easiest. That\u2019s because a challenging much smaller green now awaits golfers, precariously positioned and pitched towards the adjacent wetland that slopes into the new lake.<\/p>\n

This is also where Brewer\u2019s golf academy studio showcases some exciting new features at the back of the resort\u2019s driving range. Perhaps the biggest change is the greatly enhanced short-game practice area that will double in size Brewer\u2019s previous putting, chipping and bunker areas adjacent to the academy\u2019s private driving area. Brewer also integrated some new state-of-the-art swing analysis and game improvement technology at his indoor hitting bays.<\/p>\n

For Shingle Creek golfers looking to further hone their short games, a huge new putting green was built between the 7th<\/sup> and 8th<\/sup> holes, including never-before chipping and bunker areas. This new \u201cbreak\u201d in the course routing is also where Scott\u2019s staff has a valuable new 2,000-square-foot event building to host special events and parties, further improving the Shingle Creek golf experience.<\/p>\n

Then, for one of the more memorable challenges at the new layout, the par-5 8th<\/sup> hole (formerly the playing corridor for holes 10-11) now stretches to PGA Tour-length 606 yards from the back tees. This type of variety is yet another reason Scott and the Palmer Design team are so excited about the new-look Shingle Creek Golf Club.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith everything we\u2019ve done with the new greens and strategic bunkers to the mix of drivable par-4s and super long par-4s and par-5s, there\u2019s just so many more decisions to make,\u201d says Scott, whose esteemed property regularly plays host to U.S. Open and Amateur qualifiers.\u00a0 \u201cWhether you\u2019re an average golfer to the professional, it gives them more options and strategy to think about.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another way to put it is Shingle Creek is now a far cry from the banal \u201cresort golf\u201d marketing term that has become synonymous for that predictably ordinary golf course experience associated with so many resorts these days. In other words, play one resort and you\u2019ve played them all.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe set out to do something resolutely different at Shingle Creek,\u201d Layton added. \u201cOrlando is a golf town and our backyard. As such, we sought to build a golf course that would inspire and challenge every type of golfer. Through a hands on approach and countless hours on site, we handcrafted a golf course with design features reminiscent of some of the finest classic golf courses in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the end, Rosen Shingle Creek guests got a course that even the King of Golf would be proud to play and call home.<\/p>\n

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