From NLE...to OAE: who and why in the USA?

[Mark Bourgeois]

OAE: "Once Again in Existence."

Binks Forest is reopening after a five-year "hiatus."

The arrow always seems to point in one direction -- death -- when a course closes due to economics.  It's surprising to find any examples where the arrow reverses. You'da thought this  course in SoFla (which wasn't a bad track) would have been "housed."

The Sagamore is the only non-wartime, non natural-disaster example in the U.S. I can recall offhand. (I think saplings were growing out of those greens by the time "restoration" efforts began.)

What are other courses that have pulled a Lazarus, outside of war and natural disaster, in the United States -- courses that just fell idle for a while?
What's the record for "economically-induced" hibernation?
What forces brought it out of hibernation?

Mark

[Mike_Cirba]

I don't know much in the way of details, but I believe Samoset in Maine falls into this category.

It was originally built just after the turn of the last century, but the existing course resurrected around 1978.

[Mark Bourgeois]

Mike,

According to their website the Samoset Resort shut down from 1969 to 1974. (That was a tough time for resorts, wasn't it?)

Couldn't find anything on the course, though. Did it lie fallow during those years then get mowed and mulched or was it a do-over?

Mark

[Brad Tufts]

Wasn't Bedford Springs almost one of these?

[Adam_Messix]

Garrison's Lake just North of Dover, Delaware is soon to be on this small list.  From an architecture standpoint, it's insignificant, but it's a much needed public addition to the area.

[PThomas]

i think Forest Dunes in Michigan

[John_Conley]

There's been some stuff going on at Grenelefe.  It was all closed for a while, then I went down and played South about two years ago.  I don't know if West ever resurfaced.

[mike_beene]

How about the mountain course at the Broadmoor.I think rock slides and the economy caused this.