Course of the Week

Boots on the ground: Q&A with 2016 Olympic course superintendent Neil Cleverly

August 5, 2015 By Grant Gannon

Sun, sand and tourists. That’s the culture surrounding Neil Cleverly, superintendent of the 2016 Olympic golf course, in his temporary home, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Cleverly’s stay in the South American nation is focusing on two things: getting the course ...

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Photos by: The PGA of America | Seth Jones | Hayley McCormick/Epic Creative

Whistling Straits takes its turn

July 22, 2015 By Seth Jones

In a year of links-y Majors, Pete Dye’s 1998 design gets its turn in the spotlight. With the first three Majors of 2015 in the rearview, all eyes now look to the final Major of the year, at the Straits ...

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Course of the Week: Minnesota’s Stillwater CC

July 21, 2015 By Joelle Harms

Stillwater Country Club in Stillwater, Minn., has been renovated 90 years after it first opened in 1924. According to architect Kevin Norby, the course, like most of those built in the golden age of architecture at the beginning of ...

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Pete Dye designs 9-hole addition to Nemacolin’s Mystic Rock

July 8, 2015 By Joelle Harms

Nemacolin Woodlands Resort in Farmington, Pa., held a groundbreaking event July 8 to announce plans to expand its Mystic Rock golf course with a $6 million nine-hole addition. Pete Dye, who designed the original Mystic Rock course, has designed and will oversee ...

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Bunker restoration complete at Spring Lake GC

June 12, 2015 By Joelle Harms

Golf course architecture firm Tripp Davis and Associates has completed the second phase of its renovation and restoration work at the Jersey Shore’s historic Spring Lake Golf Club. Spring Lake originally was designed by George Thomas in 1910, and A.W. Tillinghast ...

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Course of the Week: Keystone (Colorado) Resort

June 8, 2015 By Joelle Harms

Keystone Resort in Keystone, Colo., has recently opened its two 18-hole golf courses for play. The River Course at Keystone, situated along the Snake River and among the Rocky Mountains, is a par-71 Hurdzan-Fry-designed course. It has earned a number ...

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