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DONALD ROSS NEWS FEED

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  • January 22, 2024 7:00 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)


    "The application, submitted late last month to the town, proposes constructing 90 three-story structures consisting of a mixture of apartment units distributed on several properties associated with the current Winnapaug Golf Course at 184 Shore Road."

    Tags: Development, Donald Ross, Rhode Island 

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  • January 16, 2024 7:00 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)


    "Cumberland County Commissioners are now considering two locations to rebuild the high school. Recently, the Cumberland County School Board voted 5 to 3 in favor of submitting Stryker Golf Course at Fort Liberty as an option to county commissioners."

    Tags: Course Closure, Donald Ross, North Carolina, Public Golf

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  • January 08, 2024 7:00 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)


    "Overall, the report recommended the Stryker Golf Course site as a future location for E.E. Smith. ‘The site has good street access although travel times would probably be extended due to the closure of Bragg Blvd through the military reservations,’ the report says."

    Tags: Course Closure, Donald Ross, North Carolina, Public Golf

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  • December 25, 2023 7:00 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)


    "By the time Franz finished, in late 2021, Southern Pines had been returned to its rustic beginnings, with reborn greens and bunkers, rugged sandy wastes, and wider, firmer fairways that allowed the ground game and invited different angles of attack."

    Tags: Donald Ross, Kyle Franz, North Carolina, Public Golf, Renovation

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  • December 15, 2023 7:00 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)


    "The club has received an Environmental Excellence Award from the American Society of Golf Course Architects in recognition of the project’s positive impact on the environment."

    Tags: Donald Ross, Florida, Municipal Golf, Park, Public Golf, Renovation, Richard Mandell, Short Course

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  • December 11, 2023 7:00 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)


    "The future of Westerly’s Winnapaug Country Club looks “gloomy.” This comes after a new proposal from Winn Properties LLC to build 2,300 housing units on the Donald Ross course could be filed with the town early in 2024, according to reporting by The Westerly Sun."

    Tags: Development, Donald Ross, Nicklaus Design, Rhode Island 

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  • December 04, 2023 7:00 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)


    "The proposal lists a development of 58 buildings of up to three stories on the site, consisting of townhouses, according to the RI Housing application. Two-bedroom market-rate rentals are projected at $3,000 per month in the RI housing forms."

    Tags: Development, Donald Ross, Nicklaus Design, Rhode Island

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  • December 01, 2023 7:00 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)


    "‘Bobby Jones Golf Club in Sarasota is as significant as they come because the land on which Donald Ross created this masterpiece is still intact, allowing us to restore his original plan,’ Mandell said."

    Tags: Donald Ross, Florida, Municipal Golf, Park, Public Golf, Restoration, Richard Mandell, Short Course

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  • November 15, 2023 7:00 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)


    "The 18-hole course was originally designed by Donald Ross and opened in 1926. During the course’s construction, the club decided to move the planned location of the clubhouse and while the holes remain in the locations set by Ross, the sequencing has changed, with both nines finishing with a par three."

    Tags: Barry Jordan, Brad Klein, Donald Ross, New York, Private Golf, Restoration

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  • November 01, 2023 7:00 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)


    "In 2004, Idle Hour Country Club hired Ron Prichard, the godfather of golf course restoration, to return the golf course to its Ross roots. Ron did a phenomenal job of eliminating the modern style of bunkers and restoring them to bunkers full of Ross characteristics."

    Tags: Dick Wilson, Donald Ross, Kentucky, Robert Simmons, Restoration, Ron Prichard

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