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"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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"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
"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."
"‘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
"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
"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
"It needed the full gambit of improvements — guided in part by a $25,000 master plan, prepared by golf architect Kris Spence, a “roadmap” for restoring the relevant Donald Ross features of the course, maintaining the integrity of a historic design."
Tags: Donald Ross, Kris Spence, Municipal Golf, North Carolina, Public Golf, Renovation
"The 100-year-old private country club with coastal views offers members the pleasure of playing a classic Donald Ross-designed course, typically in tournament condition."
Tags: Bobby Weed, Bruce Hepner, Donald Ross, Florida, PGA Champions Tour, Professional Golf, Renovation
"The agreement envisages the towns working in tandem with their world-famous golf clubs to promote environmentally friendly golf and sustainable golf tourism through ties with the USGA, The R&A, The Donald Ross Society and The Tin Whistles, which is the oldest continuous men’s golfing society in the USA."
Tags: Celebration, Donald Ross, Donald Ross Society, R&A, USGA
"City leaders wrestled for years over the fate of the course, originally constructed by legendary course designer Donald Ross in the 1920s."
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