"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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"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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"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

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"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

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"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

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"City leaders wrestled for years over the fate of the course, originally constructed by legendary course designer Donald Ross in the 1920s."

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

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"Becken told the club’s historical committee: “You have compiled a remarkable history of the Saint Andrew’s course and, despite all of the changes over time, present it in a clear and understandable way.”"

Tags: Brad Becken, Donald Ross, Donald Ross Society, Jack Nicklaus, New York, Tufts Archives

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"Gil Hanse and his team gradually began restoring Ross’ features in the late 1990s, including many that had become covered by trees or lost over the years. During the early 2000s, Hanse restored every green, fairway, teeing ground, chipping area and bunker."

Tags: Amateur Golf, Gil Hanse, New Jersey, Private Golf, Restoration, USGA

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"Weed’s work on the par-35 ‘Ross nine’ – a compact set of holes that play across a valley floor, flanked by streams and trees, and surrounded by mountains – has included restoring Ross’s small greens, short-cut surrounds and bunkers, with hole lengths extended where possible."

Tags: Bobby Weed, Donald Ross, North Carolina, Public Golf, Renovation, Short Course

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"Becken commended the Club’s Historical Committee, saying, ‘You have compiled a remarkable history of the Saint Andrew’s course and, despite all of the changes over time, present it in a clear and understandable way.’"

Tags: Donald Ross, Donald Ross Society, Jack Nicklaus, New York, Tufts Archives

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