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USA Today
20-05-2025
- Business
- USA Today
Popular Arizona resort to renovate the greens and more on one of its highly ranked courses
Popular Arizona resort to renovate the greens and more on one of its highly ranked courses The Boulders Resort & Spa Scottsdale in Arizona has undertaken a renovation to its North Course with a main focus on the layout's greens. Plans are for the North Course to reopen this fall. The North Course ties for No. 15 on Golfweek's Best ranking of public-access courses in Arizona. The Boulders also operates its South Course, which is No. 17 on that list. The North was designed by Jay Morrish and opened in 1985. The greens on the North will be restored to their original sizes and shapes. They will then be resurfaced with TifEagle Bermuda grass, a resilient turf that should consume less water and does not require the course to be overseeded for each winter's busy season. All the tees on the North also will be leveled and resurfaced, as will the tees on par 4s and par 5s on the South Course. It all follows extensive bunker renovations and other enhancements to both courses three years ago, including resurfacing the greens on the South Course. Arthur Schaupeter, vice president of Casa Verde Golf, will oversee the North project. Casa Verde Golf is a Troon company, with Troon being the largest golf management company operating more than 575 18-hole equivalent courses around the globe. Troon also manages the agronomy and golf operations for the Boulders. 'The net result to the North Course refinement project will be more pin locations and playability enhancements to what is already an iconic course,' Schaupeter said in a media release announcing the project. 'Arizona courses that have recently converted to TifEagle greens include Stone Canyon, Superstition Mountain, TPC Scottsdale, Silverleaf and Terravita golf courses.'
USA Today
29-04-2025
- USA Today
Popular Florida course near Atlantic Ocean set to reopen after $7.4 million renovation
Popular Florida course near Atlantic Ocean set to reopen after $7.4 million renovation AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. – Architect Beau Welling has completed a $7.4 million renovation of Omni Amelia Island Resort & Spa's Oak Marsh Golf Course, which originally was designed by Pete Dye and opened in 1972. The course, sitting on a barrier island less than an hour north of Jacksonville at an expansive beach resort alongside the Atlantic Ocean, will reopen to members and guests May 16. With the intent of maintaining Dye's legacy at Oak Marsh without interrupting Dye's famous design style, Welling rebuilt all 18 greens at Oak Marsh. The greens had shrunk over the years, as is typical of most courses. The greens were also covered with fresh TifEagle Bermuda grass. Other work involved covering all tees, fairways, roughs and greens surrounds with new Bimini Bermuda grass. Each bunker was rebuilt or moved to better fit the modern game on the 6,471-yard layout, and the irrigation and drainage systems were updated. Perhaps most notably, more than a dozen acres of thick native scrub that lined many fairways were removed and replaced with a mixture of sand and coquina shells, allowing more opportunity for recovery shots from the now-wider playing corridors, with the new sandy waste areas also better framing the holes. 'Our team is incredibly excited about this renovation of Oak Marsh,' Welling – a frequent design partner of Tiger Woods who runs his own architecture company, Beau Welling Design – said in a media release announcing the reopening. 'We were very mindful to preserve Pete Dye's strategy and design intent as well as elevating the playing experience for today's golfer.' Welling also built the 10-hole, par-3 course Little Sandy at Omni Amelia Island. 'We have such a great relationship with the Omni team at Amelia Island, and we hope the overall aesthetic improvements, coupled with Amelia Island's natural beauty, will truly showcase how special Oak Marsh is.'
