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The Bethpage Black Golf Course

This was one of the last courses designed by master golf course architect A.W. Tillinghast, and is said by many to be his finest work.

The Black Course is a difficult and challenging course that should be played only by low-handicap golfers. The course is for walkers only and its slope rating is one of the highest in the northeast.

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The 18th hole at Bethpage Black Course by Golf Shuttle

Bethpage Black closes with a straightaway par-4, with the clubhouse looming in the background.

The hole measures 411 yards, making it one of the shortest par-4s on the course. It isn’t one of the toughest holes on the course – but that doesn’t mean it’s easy.

The decision is whether to lay up short of the bunkers that pinch the fairway, or – with a downhill tee shot – to try to thread the bunkers.

An errant tee shot that winds up in those bunkers could mean trouble, and there are a couple deep bunkers guarding the green.

The green sits uphill from the fairway.

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The 18th hole at Bethpage Black Course by Golf Shuttle

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Golf’s giant step back

PINEHURST, N.C. – With 43 public courses at varying price points within a 15-mile radius, Pinehurst Resort remains the epicenter for golf in North Carolina more than 100 years after visitors starting losing golf balls here.

Pinehurst itself offers eight courses in various styles by several architects, including Tom Fazio and Rees Jones.

The latest innovation, however, is a major shift backward, with the restoration of the Pinehurst No. 2 golf course to designer Donald J. Ross’ original vision.

Now that it’s complete, you may wish to play it before tee times get scarce. This is your chance to play an antique that’s about to feel the golf world’s full embrace.

The U.S. Open will be held at Pinehurst No. 2 on June 12, 2014. Four days after that four-day championship, the U.S. Women’s Open tees off. No course has ever hosted two U.S. majors within two weeks.

Pinehurst, the U.S. Golf Association and the restoration architects, Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw, have a lot riding on the debut. One thing a championship golf venue cannot be is a pushover televised worldwide.

Rather than merely add length to Pinehurst No. 2, which is short by modern standards, its owners asked Coore-Crenshaw to find another way.

They pored over aerial photos from the 1940s to strip away later alterations by other architects to uncover Ross’ original design.

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By Dan Vukelich, Special to Tribune Newspapers

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Great golf recession claims local course

It was four summers ago that I teed it up at the Chardonnay Golf Club in Napa. I had received a call a few days earlier from former Lower Lake High School football coach Bill Cox who wanted me to join him for a day on the links.

Chardonnay is an upscale public course that has hosted PGA Tour Q School as well as a handful of U.S. Open qualifiers. The caveat to our trip was that Bill had gift certificates so that we could play for free.

The gift certificates had been a present to Cox from his daughter for a birthday some three years prior. He had thrown them in a desk drawer and decided he had better make use of them sooner than later.

We go to the Chardonnay pro shop that morning and handed the gift certificates, valued at $125, to the pro manning the counter. The young professional looked at the certificates, handed one back to Bill, and turned the other on its back side. He took $90 off the certificate and returned it with a $35 credit remaining on it.

In 2005, a round of golf at the highly regarded Chardonnay Golf Club cost $125. It was a 36-hole complex. Today it is an 18-hole complex. Ten of its holes were sold to a new neighboring course named Eagle Vines.

The other eight holes have been plowed under and wine grapes are now being grown where golfers once roamed the fairways and greens. Green fees are as low as $27.

The Great Recession is now in its fifth year and the game of golf has taken a major hit. When times get tough, people know they still must pay the

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By John Berry – Record-Bee golf columnist

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Spare Me the Agony of Purist Golf

Indulge me for a moment: OK, you love golf. You love golf courses. You consider yourself, if not a purist, at least a connoisseur of the game.

Now picture this: You’re enjoying a ride through the countryside one summer afternoon and see a turnoff sign for a golf course. It’s a course you aren’t familiar with, so you figure, what the heck, take a look.

What you find is something called Royal St. George’s. Hmmm, never heard of it. So you park, get out of your car and take a closer look.

Oh, yeah, just what you were looking for. Another dog track stuck out in the country. Wonder if they have the nerve to charge green fees to play this eyesore.

I recently watched a rerun of a British Open held on Royal St. George’s and it kindled this reaction. OK, so I’m just another spoiled malcontent, but seriously, folks, let’s be honest here.

If you drove up to Royal St. George’s with no clue as to its stature in the golf world, no hint of it being anything more than just an unkempt golf course, would you even consider playing it?

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Howard Ward

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Wee Links Golf Course coming to Rupert Rotary Club

RUPERT – The Rupert Rotary Club will soon begin construction on a six-hole youth golf facility near the Rupert Country Club.

The Wee Links Golf Course is supported by several Rupert organizations. The land for the course was donated by the Rupert Elks Lodge, BPOE 2106 and maintenance of the course will be provided by the Rupert Country Club in addition to its standard length golf course.

Construction of the Wee Links Golf Course is scheduled to begin in late summer 2012. The course will be open to the public for play beginning in fall 2013.

The course’s initial design work will be completed with a $5,000 grant from the Project Mutual Telephone Foundation.

Partial funding will be provided by the First Federal Foundation which will cover part of the cost to remodel a current building to serve as the Wee Links Clubhouse.

The Clubhouse will include an indoor seating area, a concessions and equipment area and a storage area for golf equipment.

The Clubhouse features a covered patio area for visitors and spectators of the course. The facility will operate free of charge for children to encourage and cultivate youth involvement in golf.

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By C. COLT CRANE

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Wachesaw Plantation East a challenge down stretch

MURRELLS INLET – You may want to save your best for last at Wachesaw Plantation East, because the course requires it.

It’s not that the rest of Clyde Johnston’s 6,933-yard 12-year-old layout is easy, but the three-hole closing stretch challenged the women of the LPGA Tour from 1997-2000, and will do the same to your foursome.

“The course definitely gets harder coming down the closing holes,” said Chris Williams of Brisbane, Australia, who took part in a review of the course in late August.

“Right when you’re getting tired you have to pull out the best of your game.”

The 410-yard par-4 16th hole requires a carry over wetlands off the tee, and the green is angled to the right and tucked behind a water hazard with bunkering to the left of the water and right and back of the green.

The 500-yard 17th has a creek down the entire left side that meanders across the front of a green with a false front on its front-left side.

The drive over water is to a split fairway with a tree on the left side. A layup short of the creek must avoid heavy mounding and rough leading to water on the right side of an elevated fairway.

A drive through a chute of trees on the 430-yard par-4 18th sets up an approach over water to a green that slopes to the right and front and is horseshoed by bunkering.

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By Alan Blondin

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Tampa investor buys Manatee golf course

A Tampa company has bought the 70-acre golf course at the Greenfield Plantation development on State Road 64, according to records.

The $850,000 purchase by Greenfield Golf LLC, a Tampa company managed by Anthony Soletti, also included the 5,000-square-foot clubhouse, records show.

The property at 10325 Greenfield Blvd. was owned by Myakka Valley Safaris and Bruce Williams Farm Associates.

The Links at Greenfield Plantation course, visible from State Road 64 a few miles east of Interstate 75, is known as a player-friendly track that requires crisp shotmaking due to its large number of dogleg holes and those with lateral water hazards.

The course was one of the first in the region to offer tee boxes that were moved way up to encourage play among youth and inexperienced golfers.

It may be best known for Hole No. 8, a par-5 dogleg right that requires a pinpoint drive and accurate second shot to avoid a huge lake on the right.

It typically offers competitive rates and has a nice clubhouse with a diner counter.

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By Michael Braga, Herald-Tribune

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Shaker Hills Golf Club reopens Oct. 1

HARVARD – Work is afoot to not only restore the Shaker Hills golf course, but to also push the clubhouse to a new level of splendor for weddings, functions and spectators.

Timothy Valas has been tapped to serve as general manager of the new Shaker Hills Country Club (formerly known as Shaker Hills Golf Club).

Valas was approached on April 12, immediately after the course was purchased at foreclosure auction by his longtime friend, Princeton businessman Frederick “Skip” Curtis Jr.

It’s been decided that the “Shaker Hills” portion of the prior name will remain in the title of the course in deference to the neighboring Shaker Village in Harvard and the course’s own illustrious history.

Shaker Hills was ranked number one golf course in New England by Golf Digest in 1992. A new logo is in the works.

Curtis’ winning bid was $3.4 million, not including outstanding real-estate taxes and utility fees due and payable at closing to the town of Ayer (where the 13,000-square-foot clubhouse and maintenance buildings are located on 5.3 acres) and the town of Harvard (where the 18-hole golf course expands across 163 acres).

Valas and Curtis have been friends for 30 years. The two both attended St. John’s High School in Shrewsbury and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. The two are members of the Worcester Country Club and love the sport.

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By Mary E. Arata

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Reston groups fight to protect golf course

(Shamus Ian Fatzinger/ Fairfax County Times) – John and Ruth Ann Pinkman have lived just off the fairway at Reston National Golf Course for 21 years. They started Rescue Reston, which opposes redevelopment of the golf course.

The mere suggestion of redeveloping Reston’s only public golf course, one of two courses within its boundaries, has community organizations arming themselves for a legal battle.

The owners of the Reston National Golf Course, RN Golf Management, are appealing a Fairfax County zoning administrator’s ruling saying the golf course cannot be redeveloped without going through a rezoning process.

The ruling was prompted by an inquiry from the owners’ representative about current zoning for the property.

The owners’ attorneys have said in correspondence with the county that they think the course could be redeveloped as a residential community under its current zoning. The case will go before the Board of Zoning Appeals next month.

Several Reston organizations are preparing to do what they can to support the position of county staff members. The groups say that, if the zoning administrator’s ruling is overturned, it will undermine the vision on which the planned community was built.

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By Kali Schumitz | Fairfax County Times

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Raccoon golf course explores development option

A loss of business because of the recession and diminished access from the widening of Ohio 161/37 has prompted the investors who own the Raccoon International Golf Course to explore options to make the 150-acre parcel more financially viable.

Beginning in 2007, the golf course experienced a severe decline in business that lasted until summer 2011, said Denny Riga, the majority shareholder for P.A.R. Golf Group Inc., which owns the golf course in Granville Township.

Riga said retirees were cutting down on their usage and corporations were scheduling fewer events.

The golf course formerly had an entrance on Ohio 37, but now is reachable only by an access road that requires golfers coming from the east to go about three miles out of their way.

With revenues shrinking, the golf course owners found it couldn’t meet a loan repayment deadline. The long term solvency of the golf course seemed in doubt.

Looking for an infusion of cash, the owners in 2010 put the golf course up for sale, seeking a buyer willing to either maintain it as a golf course or develop it.

Finding no takers, they tried another option: In February, they applied to Granville Township for a conservation easement on the 150 acres.

Under a conservation easement, the landowner is paid the difference between the value of the land developed and kept in its present state, in return for a guarantee the land will never be developed.

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Written by Brian Miller, Sentinel Reporter

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Private Golf Course Living on the Rebound

If golf course real estate development were a comatose patient the past four years, the prognosis for this part of the golf business has suddenly turned upbeat.

The patient is awake! At least that’s the mood at many golf course communities throughout America.

To be sure, this patient is by no means going to ever resemble its former self from the go-go golf days of the 1990s, when real estate development sparked a spate of 4,500 new courses from 1986-2005 – an average clip of 225 new courses each year.

However, many golf course communities are far from dead, and the industry’s general condition seems to be upgraded from serious to stable.

The continued absorption of excess course supply – 2011 marked the sixth consecutive year more courses closed than opened in America – certainly helps matters.

For example, the golf industry saw an overall net reduction of 2.4 percent 18-hole golf course equivalents from 2006-11, according to National Golf Foundation senior vice president Greg Nathan, reversing an unhealthy net gain of 44 percent new golf courses during the previous 20 years.

Indeed, just as America’s overall real estate industry is stabilizing and starting to become healthier by most accounts, there is life back inside the gates of golf. And the positive news is not tied to any one asset class or region.

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