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DONALD ROSS NEWS FEED
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"In the 1920s alone, Ross designed over two hundred and fifty courses. That's more than two courses per month, every month, for ten consecutive years. And the brilliance within that...how is that even possible, even if you were just doing it on a piece of paper?"
Tags: Donald Ross, North Carolina, Public Golf, USGA
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"The architect explains key details of his approach to Pinehurst No. 2's design and the modifications made for major championship golf."
Tags: Donald Ross, Geoff Shackelford, Golf Course Architecture, North Carolina
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"Part 1 with the maestro of Pinehurst discusses how he started in the golf business, his design philosophy, and his views on the evolving game."
"100 years before there was Bandon Dunes, Whistling Straits, Streamsong and Sand Valley… Pinehurst was the golfers’ getaway hub."
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"Both the North course, which has played host to the PGA Tour’s Rocket Mortgage Classic since 2019, and the South course were designed by Donald Ross in 1916. Since then, a variety of architects have tweaked the layouts. Rae will endeavor to infuse the Ross characteristics that defined the courses when they opened."
Tags: Donald Ross, Michigan, PGA Tour, Private Golf, Renovation, Tyler Rae
"As part of a multi-year transformation project to renovate northern Michigan’s Donald Ross Memorial at The Highlands, four more renovated holes are now open at the BOYNE Golf facility built to honor the legendary architect. The 18-hole layout is a composite re-creation of classic golf holes from iconic venues that Ross designed during the early part of the 20th century."
Tags: Donald Ross, Michigan, Public Golf, Ray Hearn, Renovation
"Rae is planning to use the detailed 1914 Donald Ross plan, early aerials and historical ground level photography to determine how to rebuild greens so that lost pin positions are recaptured, and the original Ross character, scale and grandeur is restored."
"Originally a nine-hole layout, Green Oaks membership engaged Ross in 1913 for a new 18-hole course after purchasing an additional 46 acres. Ross returned in 1914 to finish placing the bunkers, and the course opened in the fall of that year."
Tags: Bobby Jones Links, Donald Ross, Pennsylvania, Private Golf
"Ross’s routing remains largely unchanged but tree planting throughout the 20th century narrowed playing corridors and transformed the heathland-style layout into more of a parkland course. In the 1990s, architect Ron Prichard renovated greens and bunkers, removed trees and planted native fescue."
Tags: Brad Klein, Donald Ross, Gil Hanse, Massachusetts, Private Golf, Ron Prichard
"Detroit Golf Club’s courses, site of the Rocket Mortgage Classic on the PGA Tour since 2019, were designed by legendary architect Donald Ross and opened in 1916."
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