What course is this?

[Scott_Burroughs]

I'm seeing approximately 20-21 holes?

If you know, perhaps don't give it away right away....give a clue that might help others....and they can do the same....will reveal in the US Eastern afternoon.

[Scott_Burroughs]

The sandy soil here is probably not good for growing corn, although you might think it would be.

[Adam_Messix]

But it might be for onions....


Also a well known fruit cake is made nearby.

[Kalen Braley]

My initial guess was Prairie Club, but I looked it up...not it!

[Craig Disher]

This architect sure gets around.

[Eric Smith]

Appears to be a great match play course.

[Scott_Burroughs]

Appears to be a great match play course.

My clue was going to be:  The kids like games with phosphorus sulfide here?

[Jason Topp]

Very good clues.  I finally got it. 

[Anthony_Nysse]

Very good clues.  I finally got it.

South East GA

[Mike Hendren]

Elsewhere my friend Michael Whitaker wonders why no one is building/emulating Lawsonia Links.  Perhaps this course (which looks pretty darned good on my computer screen, I must say)  is an example why.  Perhaps it's much more expedient, fashionable and commercially viable to sling paint (or sand in this instance) like Jackson Pollock than to sweat the minutiae like the Renaissance Trinity.

I hope Doak goes a different route at Sand Valley, using Cape Arundel as an inspiration.

Just mixing it up a little bit.

Bogey

[Scott_Burroughs]

Very good clues.  I finally got it.

South East GA

Well, my next clue was going to be based on this:

This architect sure gets around.

And based in his past work, it's unlikely this design will be a 'dawg.

[Anthony_Nysse]

Superintendent came from Palmetto Golf Club…...

[John Foley]

Wow - poster + unknown golf course - is this 2000???


 

[Scott_Burroughs]

So this is Ohoopee Match Club, in Cobbtown, GA, designed by Gil Hanse.  I believe at least 9 are to open this year (if not already)....does anyone know if this is still true?

'corn' = Cobbtown

onions = nearby Vidalia, home of those tasty sweet onions

architect gets around = Olympic course in Brazil + Scotland and generally in high demand

past good work

match play / phosphorus sulfide (flammable chemical in matches)

SE GA  / 'dawg = Georgia / U of Ga

[Adam_Messix]

Scott


The famous Claxton Fruit Cake is made nearby too, hence the reference.

[Matt MacIver]

A friend played 72 holes last weekend, and loved it.  Fully open and operational, walking only w/ caddies, snakes, multiple routings / alternate tees, all sand- based — what’s not to love?

[Kalen Braley]

I'm looking at the holes on Google maps and finding 22.5 holes... (One is a fairway that seemingly goes nowhere.)


Interesting...

[Ian Andrew]

Playing there in two weeks.
Liked what I saw in construction
Short par 4 4th and par three 5th are both outstanding


 

[JLahrman]

Wow - poster + unknown golf course - is this 2000???


 

Let's hope; those were some of my favorite threads.

[Steve Lang]

   AOTD !  AOTD ! 

[Ronald Montesano]

Bogey...nice change-up there. We were all out in front of that pitch!


Perhaps the owner/investor wanted something of this magnitude. As architects will tell you, what they want and what the money requests are often fairways apart. Look how long it took our patron saint, MK, to decide to build a more intimate golf course: 4 at BD, 1 at CL, 2 at SV and others around the world. It's a process...

[Scott_Burroughs]

Scott


The famous Claxton Fruit Cake is made nearby too, hence the reference.

I know nothing about fruitcakes, so couldn't divulge that one.  Been 30 years since I last had a bite of one, likely.

Wow - poster + unknown golf course - is this 2000???


 

Let's hope; those were some of my favorite threads.

I joined in 2001.  AOTD was 2002-2003.

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