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Changes prepare Pebble Beach Golf Links for 2010 U.S. Open
February 24, 2010
GolfCalifornia.comBy Jason Scott Deegan, Senior Contributor
The hazards that make Pebble Beach Golf Links the most spectacular golf course in the land - the Stillwater Cove and Carmel Bay in the Pacific Ocean - will be in play more than ever at the 2010 U.S. Open June 17-20.
Pebble Beach has been tweaked, massaged and molded into what the brass at the United States Golf Association hope is a tougher test of golf. The USGA, in consultation with Arnold Palmer, managing partner at the resort, has added new tees, trees, bunkers and slopes to the world's most famous course.
To say that Pebble Beach isn't the golf same course that Tiger Woods dismantled en route to a landslide 15-stroke victory at the 2000 U.S. Open would be true, but it wouldn't be entirely accurate. The changes don't deface the Mona Lisa of golf. They only enhance it.
Read the full story at CaliforniaGolf.com
Posted: February 24, 2010 04:01 PM
Half Moon Bay Golf Links receives Gold Medal from Golf Magazine
February 19, 2010
WorldGolf.comHALF MOON BAY, Calif. -- Half Moon Bay Golf Links -- the world-class, 36-hole golf resort set against the dramatic cliffs of the Pacific Ocean just minutes from San Francisco and San Jose -received a "Gold Medal" rating in GOLF Magazine's 2010 edition of "Premier Resorts."
Read the full release at WorldGolf.com
Posted: February 19, 2010 02:38 PM
Nationwide Tour to play new Chiquita Classic at Palmer designed TPC River's Bend
MAINEVILLE, Ohio -- The Nationwide Tour added a new tournament to its 2010 schedule Friday with the announcement of the Chiquita Classic, to be played July 12-18 at the TPC River's Bend in the Cincinnati suburb of Maineville, Ohio.
The Chiquita Classic will feature a field of 156 competing over 72 holes of stroke play for a purse of $550,000. The TPC River's Bend is a 7,180-yard par-72 layout designed by legend Arnold Palmer which opened in 2001. A pro-am will be played at TPC River's Bend on Wednesday, July 14th.
All four rounds of the Chiquita Classic will air on GOLF CHANNEL in the U.S. The tournament will also be made available around the world, including China, Japan, Korea and parts of Latin America and Europe.
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Posted: February 19, 2010 11:21 AM
Golf Digest Names Las Vegas' Angel Park Golf Club as Top 50 Best Women's Course
From golflasvegasnow.comFebruary 19, 2010 (Las Vegas, Nevada)--Angel Park Golf Club is the home of two 18-hole Arnold Palmer Las Vegas golf courses, a lighted par 3, an all-grass putting course, and expansive practice facilties. For seemingly too many years to count, this facility and its Las Vegas golf courses have earned status as the "Best Golf Course in Las Vegas" in a local newspaper poll. Now, Golf Digest has named Angel Park to a list of the Top 50 most friendly women golf courses in America.
"We take our loyalty to female guests very seriously," says David Stead, Director of Golf at Angel Park Golf Club. "Although the game of golf sort of started out as a male-centric game, I gotta tell you that the ladies who tee it up at our club are just as captivated with this wonderful game as the men. Their participation is good for everyone." Angel Park Golf Club is also home to a restaurant and patio with terrific views, plus a full-service pro shop. And Las Vegas golfers can reserve Las Vegas golf tee times for the best rate guaranteed at the official Angel Park Golf Club website.
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Posted: February 19, 2010 10:35 AM
Myrtle Beach National's King's North course: Arnold Palmer's gem is much more than just The Gambler
February 16, 2010
By Josh Hoke, Contributor - TravelGolf.comMYRTLE BEACH, S.C. - Challengers of the King's North course at Myrtle Beach National will find a multitude of risk-reward opportunities.
That doesn't just apply to the famed sixth hole, "The Gambler," but rather much of the entire Arnold Palmer-designed layout, which has established itself as main attraction in the 54-hole Myrtle Beach National field.
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Posted: February 16, 2010 02:01 PM
Great Golf in Port Aransas on the Texas Gulf Coast
February 04, 2010
By: Steve Habel - Read the full Story on CyberGolf.comNewport Dunes makes its mark in Port Aransas in a Hurry
Located on the northern tip of Mustang Island, Port Aransas is the hub of coastal activities and family fun on the Texas Coast. The bays, jetties and deep Gulf waters offer the finest fishing around, and the town - known locally as "Port A" - boasts beautiful beaches leading to the deep-blue waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
It's also the perfect spot for a true links-style course, a vision that Arnold Palmer Design Group turned into reality with Newport Dunes Golf Club. Weighing in at 6,821 wind-swept yards from the tips, the par-71 track meanders through sweeping, untamed native dunes and offers spectacular views of both the Gulf of Mexico and Corpus Christi Bay.
An Aerial View of the 13th & 14th Holes at Newport Dunes
Reminiscent of the coastal links in Scotland, Newport Dunes tests golfers with ocean breezes, rolling fairways lined with native grasses and imposing greens. The design combines with the nature to uncover a new golf experience on each round. True to its design charter, Newport Dunes features stacked-wall bunkers and deceptive landing areas, all of which make the course - rated at 72.9 and sloped at 121 - play much harder than the scorecard indicates.
"We truly believe that Newport Dunes plays more like a course with a 138 or 139 slope because of the bunkers, the winds and the contours on the greens," said Kevin Michael, Newport Dunes' general manager. "Our fairways here - which are grassed with Seashore Paspalum - are wide, but they are rolling, and they end with punitive native areas."
Newport Dunes is the first "ocean-side" track designed by Palmer in North America and the only course to fit the category in Texas. The fairways traverse over, up, down and through the dunes and past native flora, rare and endangered seaside plants and the verdant seashore grass, making it visually stunning and a blast to play.
Read the full Story on CyberGolf.com
For more details on Newport Dunes, visit www.newportdunesgolf.com.
Posted: February 4, 2010 12:30 PM
Thad Layton Selected to Judge the 2010 Golf World Lido Competition
February 03, 2010
Golf World's Annual Golf Design Contest
2010 Lido Competition
By Ron Whitten
February 8, 2010
Read the full article on GolfDigest.com
If the $3,000 grand prize isn't enough to convince you to enter the 2010 Lido Competition, the annual golf design contest co-sponsored by Golf World and the Alister MacKenzie Society, then consider this: If this year's winner attends the MacKenzie Society annual meeting at Ireland's Cork GC Aug. 21-24, he or she will receive a bonus $2,000 to help defray travel expenses.
And if that's still not enough, permit us to suggest one more reason: winning the Lido Prize can lead to even bigger and better things.
Our prime example is Thad Layton, who won the 2003 Lido Prize for his original hole design (pictured on right) which, as all entries must do, utilized the design philosophy of Dr. MacKenzie within the confines of a two-shot par 4. Back in '06, Layton was a "CADD monkey" for Arnold Palmer Course Design Co., doing computer design and graphics. Today, Layton is a golf architect for Palmer and has worked on, among other projects, the renovations of Pebble Beach (for this year's U.S. Open), Bay Hill in Orlando (for this year's Arnold Palmer Invitational) and The Bridges in Bay St. Louis, Miss., where he first got involved in the golf business as a grunt laborer in 1996.
Layton will serve as this year's judge for the Lido Competition, the first time a former winner has ever judged the contest.
The Lido Competition is based upon a magazine design contest won by Dr. MacKenzie in 1914. His winning hole, a par 4 with triple avenues of play, was later constructed by contest founder C.B. Macdonald on his Lido Golf Club on Long Island, N.Y. Sadly, the course, and hole, did not survive World War II.
As in previous Lido contests, entrants are restricted to a hand-drawn design, on paper not larger than 11"x17" along with one sheet of supporting explanation. One entry per contestant. An entry form is required. To download an entry form, as well as a full set of rules click here. Deadline for receipt of all entries is April 1, 2010. No fooling. The winner will be announced by May 1, 2010.
--Ron Whitten
Posted: February 3, 2010 03:10 PM
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