jenny
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Tha ideal course, Sand Hills meet that The course should have beautiful surroundings, and all the artificial features should have so natural an appearance that a stranger is unable to distinguish them from nature itself, according to the Doc's seventh commandment. The greatest course of the past half-century is Sand Hills Golf Club.
Currently ranked No. 8 in the U.S. and No. 11 in the world, Sand Hills is a private 1994 creation of architects Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw. Almost as soon as it opened Sand Hills ushered in two trends that have flourished since: minimalist course design, and the Field of Dreams theory, which holds that if you build a truly great golf course, people will come see it, no matter how remote the location.
The minimalist movement in golf course architecture is the practice of "least disturbance," a throwback to the ancient Scottish principle of using the land as you found it. In the construction of Sand Hills, less than 3,000 cubic yards of material was moved. Compare that to the more than one million cubic yards dislodged at most top modern layouts. Plus, only $1.2 million was spent to build the course. Shadow Creek, hewn from the barren desert of Las Vegas five years earlier, cost $40 million.
Of course, Coore and Crenshaw had terrain that was a lot more engaging. By the spring of 1993, two years into their site visits, the pair had discovered 130 possible golf holes on the property. According to architect Tom Doak, the Sand Hills site was "so perfect that they moved dirt in spoonfuls to create greens and tees, and in fact so perfect that they didn't even have to contour half the greens. This course was, literally, already there. It cost practically nothing to physically build it."
How do you sell national memberships to a club this remote? Simple. Create a course so pure, so varied in its shot demands and so stunning in its aesthetics that serious golfers will take to trains, planes and automobiles — and any other means necessary — to get here.
On this greatest course, you should score yourslef and score the course. Of course, X-22 Iron Set and AP2 Iron Set can not be missed.
So, what is your ideal golf course?
click here to see the beautiful picture of Sand Hills
edited by jenny on 10/23/2009
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