First USGA event to UT !

[Matt_Ward]

SOLDIER HOLLOW GOLF COURSE TO HOST
 2012 U.S. AMATEUR PUBLIC LINKS CHAMPIONSHIP
 
Far Hills, N.J. (March 16) – Soldier Hollow Golf Course at Wasatch Mountain State Park in Midway, Utah, has been selected by the United States Golf Association as the site of the 2012 U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship, to be contested July 9-14, 2012. It will be the first USGA championship conducted in the state of Utah.
 
“The USGA is extremely proud to have Utah’s Soldier Hollow Golf Course as a future host of the U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship,” said USGA President Jim Hyler. “The Amateur Public Links is our fourth-oldest championship, with a rich and storied history. We are thrilled to bring one of our most prestigious championships to the state of Utah and Soldier Hollow for the first time.”
 
“It is an honor for Soldier Hollow at Wasatch Mountain State Park to be selected as the site for this prestigious championship,” said Utah State Parks Director Mary Tullius. “We are very proud to host the very best of amateur sport as we did for the Olympic Winter Games in 2002.”
 
Soldier Hollow, which opened in 2004, is located in Wasatch Mountain State Park, approximately 50 miles from Salt Lake City, in the Heber Valley and in the shadow of Mount Timpanogos. Designed by Gene Bates, Soldier Hollow was built on the site of the biathlon and cross-country skiing venue for the 2002 Winter Olympics, making it the only golf course in the United States built on a Winter Olympics venue. Soldier Hollow is a 36-hole facility comprising the Gold and Silver courses. For the 87th Amateur Public Links Championship, 17 holes from the Gold Course (all but the second hole) and one hole from the Silver Course (No. 11) will be used.
 
“This is an exciting opportunity for Utah and our golf community. We have a rich history of golf in this state and we look forward to sharing it with the rest of the country,” said Utah Golf Association Executive Director Thomas Pagel.
 
As of 2010, only three states have yet to host a USGA championship – Alaska, New Hampshire and Utah.
The U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship was inaugurated in 1922 as an opportunity for public-course players to compete for a national championship title. It is open to amateur golfers who are bona fide public-course players and who hold a USGA Handicap Index not exceeding 4.4.

Just have to wonder if other sites in the state, esepcailly in the St. George area, could have been selected ?

[Garland Bayley]

" making it the only golf course in the United States built on a Winter Olympics venue "

More disinformation from those too lazy to check their facts.

[Jim_Kennedy]

Garland,

I'm sure you have one(or more) so good find, what other US golf course has been built on a Winter Olympic site?

[Matt_Ward]

Garland:

The quote you tagged to me -- is within the USGA's press release. Your attriibution is off partner.

[Peter_Herreid]

I am not absolutely certain whether any of the biathlon and/or Nordic events in the 1960 games were conducted over the exact same wetlands, but the RTJ Jr course at Squaw Creek is most definitely within the Squaw Creek resort, and the resort ( such as it was, so hastily constructed back then) hosted the 1960 Winter Olympics.

[Carr Harris]

Their Website descibes them as part of a cross-country skiing resort. I have never heard of such a thing. Maybe I need to get out of the house more.

[Jim_Kennedy]

Peter,
That question would need an answer as the article is careful to say that the golf course is built 'on' the site.

Garland,
Is that the case for the golf course at Squaw Valley? 
I don't think there has been anything built in Lake Placid, NY after the '32 games.

[Jim_Kennedy]

Peter,
The Biathlon (first time in the games was 1960) and other Cross-Country events were held 12 miles away from Squaw Valley.

[Garland Bayley]

Garland:

The quote you tagged to me -- is within the USGA's press release. Your attriibution is off partner.

I didn't say it was you. I simply took out the offending section of what you posted. You didn't make it clear, but it seemed it must be the USGA's statement.
Maybe you should do a better job of attributions in your posts partner.

[Garland Bayley]

Peter,
That question would need an answer as the article is careful to say that the golf course is built 'on' the site.

Garland,
Is that the case for the golf course at Squaw Valley? 
I don't think there has been anything built in Lake Placid, NY after the '32 games.

The article says "on the site of the venue". Squaw Valley is the site of a variety of venues for the 60 games.

So divorce me for wordsmithing. You know it all depends on what the meaning of is is.

[Jim_Kennedy]

The article says "on the site of the venue". Squaw Valley is the site of a variety of venues for the 60 games.
So divorce me for wordsmithing. You know it all depends on what the meaning of is is.

Garland,
That's how politician's get themselves into trouble, not admitting they were incorrect. You jumped out of the blocks before the starter's gun went off, that's all.   

The article said, and very clearly:  "Soldier Hollow was built on the site of the biathlon and cross-country skiing venue for the 2002 Winter Olympics, making it the only golf course in the United States built on a Winter Olympics venue." It didn't say the golf course was the first ever built "at" or "near" an Olympic site, it said "on" the same venue where those events were held.

[Jon Nolan]

The USGA is simply reiterating what Soldier Hollow says all over every marketing piece they release.  Only, first or otherwise - no biggie.  It's a unique circumstance or close to it and worth a novelty mention.

I like the course and I love it when they have big events there.  The greens are already about as good as you can find in No. Utah public golf and for a month before events like this they are twice as pristine. 

[Matt_Ward]

Garland:

You said,

"I didn't say it was you. I simply took out the offending section of what you posted. You didn't make it clear, but it seemed it must be the USGA's statement. Maybe you should do a better job of attributions in your posts partner."

The info I posted was directly from the USGA press release. If you bothered to check the attribution you should have known that.

You listed my name and then made listed statement directly from the release and added the following, "More disinformation from those too lazy to check their facts."

Maybe you should read the attribution which listed Far Hills (hint / hint home of USGA) before barking out partner.

[Kalen Braley]

From one who has been there, I'm pretty sure its not "on" the cross-country site, because its still very much there, and very much used in the winter time. 

It is possible, the biatholoners used a different track that could have been where the golf course actually sits.

P.S.  Good to see Utah being recognized.  I feel sorry for those guys having to walk the back 9 on the Gold course...its a massive trek.