"In 1944, the PGA of America moved its headquarters from Chicago and renamed the course PGA National Golf Club — leasing it from the city. Eventually, the PGA moved out, but the site hosted 18 consecutive Senior PGA Championships — as well as the original PGA Merchandise Show in 1954."

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"A test of accuracy, creativity and mental fortitude, Mid Pines Inn and Golf Club's Donald Ross designed course will eat your lunch and you'll thank it for doing so. Golf course architect Kyle Franz was fresh off restoring Pinehurst No. 2 with Coore & Crenshaw for the U.S. Open when Kelly Miller, president and CEO of Pine Needles Lodge and Golf Club, met Franz to talk about Pine Needles' sister course, Mid Pines. The rest is history."

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“If Ross crawled out of his grave today and saw how far the ball goes and how fast the greens are compared to his era, I do not believe he would design the same course today that he designed in 1926,” Kline said. “Now we have the course that we believe he would design. The routing is still the same, some bunkers changed locations to account for driving distance, and the greens are incredible. We recaptured all the pin placements, too."

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"The Country Club of Rochester dates back to 1895. Donald Ross, the distinguished golf course architect of his time, was engaged to set out a new 18-hole course in 1913 and he returned in 1931 to design essentially the course that is in use today. Robert Trent Jones Sr. added three new holes (5, 6 and 7) in 1960 and Gil Hanse completed a restoration in 2004, but The Country Club of Rochester still remains a Golden Age Ross design."

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"There's no question that by the number of bunkers and the contouring we found in the greens, Ross was clearly given a mandate or a directive to build a top-shelf championship layout on that property." Kris Spence

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"Over the years, several renovations took the course further away from what Ross had created. This included the green complexes shrinking 35-to-50 percent, taking away from the strategy Ross intended. In 2014, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Now, thanks to this latest and meticulous restoration of the green complexes, bunkers, fairways, and tees, every golfer can experience the course as Ross intended – right down to the actual greens Ross originally created."

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"The city posted an ad for design and engineering services March 20, the first in a series of requests for qualifications for major rebuilding projects, according to a news release. The release billed it as a 'milestone' marking the beginning of a 'strategic and coordinated approach' to restoring and enhancing the city's infrastructure after the storm."

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"As his team was surveying the land, 'I could see the old greens extending out beneath the current ones, and was able to measure them and compare them to Ross’s original plans and notes,' says Spence, who has worked on more than 25 original Ross designs and is an expert on the topic. 'I quickly realized that the original greens had never been destroyed – they were just buried under this newer material for 75 years'."

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"The golf course also was re-grassed, and the expanded bentgrass fairways opened in 2019. Zinkand also altered six greens to adjust contours so those greens would continue to play as Ross intended."

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“I visited Dunedin in the spring of 2021,” wrote Spence, in a post on Golf Club Atlas. “The course has been neutered by the removal of 75 original bunkers and a couple attempts to resurface the greens by adding rootzone, etc, meant the greens were about 50 to 60 per cent of their original size. However, the original green surfaces and fill pads were intact, buried under between 12 and 18 inches of added material. Excessive tree planting had also choked down the width and created major issues with shade throughout. I felt the place was tired and worn out, getting about 60,000 rounds a year.”

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