"Some in the golf community might not know who Ron Prichard is. But they are familiar with the golf courses he’s worked on. The list includes Aronimink, the site of the PGA Championship. Prichard launched a restoration of Donald Ross’s original design in 1994. Seven years later he restored the luster to Jeffersonville Golf Club, a daily-fee club and another Ross original in the Philadelphia area. In the days before the PGA Championship, Prichard paid a visit to Jeffersonville and reflected on it all."

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"Both will be produced by golf journalist Adam Lawrence of Oxford Golf Consulting, the founding editor of Golf Course Architecture, and producer Vaughn Halyard of StoryLounge, a two-time Grammy winner who is a former senior executive with Sony Music, Columbia Records, Motown and Disney Studios. Halyard was also the golf and greens chair during the restoration of Cedar Rapids Country Club in Iowa and is the current president of the Donald Ross Society."

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"Hope Valley’s course has gone through multiple renovations throughout its history, but this one will be a golf restoration by architect Kris Spence, who specializes in meticulously restoring Ross designs to their original charm and challenge while optimizing them for modern play. The course will be closed in January and is expected to reopen in the fall of 2027."

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"Nantz’s positive impact on the game make him a worthy recipient of the 2026 ASGCA Donald Ross Award. The organization’s highest honor recognizes an individual who has made a significant contribution to the game of golf and the profession of golf course architecture. Nantz will receive the award during the ASGCA annual meeting in October."

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"Golf course architect Gil Hanse doesn’t claim to be an expert on Donald Ross, the famed Scottish-born builder of courses credited with building some of America’s most famous courses, including Pinehurst No. 2. Ross held a special place in his heart for Aronimink Golf Club, where two decades after laying out the course on rugged farmland in 1928 and creating his classic greens that reject anything less than a precise shot, Ross returned and couldn’t help stick out his chest and boast of the final product."

Tags: Donald Ross, Gil Hanse, Pennsylvania, PGA Championship, Private Golf, Restoration, Ron Prichard

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"Opened on Memorial Day, 1928, the course was designed by the most prolific architect of his era, Donald Ross, who brought his full toolkit to bear: bold, crowned greens that punish imprecision, reverse-cambered fairways, demanding and varied approaches, and a routing that makes the most of rolling former Pennsylvania farmland."

Tags: Donald Ross, Gil Hanse, Pennsylvania, PGA Championship, Private Golf, Ron Prichard

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"This corner of the course comprises No. 6, a crazily downhill 120-yard par-3; No. 7, a 280 par-4 where your only goal is to finish with the ball with which you started; and No. 8, a 240-yard par-4 up a suburban mountain. Some of the local high schools play their events at Merion West. It’s perfect. Herb Wind, you may know, did invent the phrase Amen Corner for that nook of Augusta. The same Herb Wind once told me that the U.S. has three great golf capitals: Chicago, New York and Philadelphia."

Tags: Donald Ross, Gil Hanse, Pennsylvania, PGA Championship, Private Golf, Ron Prichard

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"The second men’s Major, the PGA Championship, takes place at Aronimink Golf Club and to give golf enthusiasts a flavour of the challenge that the professionals face, the Shot Scope data experts took a closer look at the par 3 17th."

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"Designed by Donald Ross in 1928, Aronimink stands out amongst a crowded Philadelphia golf scene by employing a cleverly varied routing, bold bunkering, and a brilliant set of greens."

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"Built on rugged farmland outside Philadelphia, the course is bold and demanding holes tumble across natural valleys, fairways bank and shift, and greens reject anything less than a precise shot. Bunkers are everywhere—clustered, strategic, and punishing—and the greens are classic Ross, full of tilt, shoulders, and subtle movement that keep players guessing."

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