R.I.P. Roy Case

[Pete Stankevich]

A great man and a great friend to me and many on this site passed away on April 29th.


https://www.palmswestfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Roy-Case-3/#!/Obituary


Roy was also the Feature Interview on GCA in February 2008:  https://golfclubatlas.com/feature-interview/interviewcase/


A life well-lived.

[Jon Wiggett]

Sad to read this Pete.

[Chris_Blakely]

Very sad new.


I played New Jersey National back when I lived out east and enjoyed the course very much.

[B.Ross]

sad to hear. i'm a big fan of osprey point, enjoy skyway in jersey city more than most (i've seen critiques on it that it is too penal for a 9 hole muni meant to serve a local community & grow the game) and enjoyed north sound in grand cayman as well.

[Forrest Richardson]

I knew Roy, but not particularly well. We met at the GIS Show and I recall speaking with him about a few projects over the years. As many know, he was well known for his expertise on landfill conversions to golf — a highly specialized sub-field that was very popular in the 1980s-90s, but not as much any longer.


This is because landfills are now "uber-constructed" to the point where they are often 50-feet or more in height and hardly conducive to a golf course. Where landfills used to be canyons filled in with waste, or perhaps mostly "level" ground across a few hundred acres, they are now engineered structures because operators want to get every last sand and gravel $$ out — and every last piece of waste in.


RIP Roy. I enjoyed the few times we met and spoke.

[Chris Mavros]

I'm sorry to hear this.  I recently played Skyway Links and thought his work there was terrific.  The course is forward thinking in more ways than one and his contribution to the game well done.

[Joe Bausch]

sad to hear. i'm a big fan of osprey point, enjoy skyway in jersey city more than most (i've seen critiques on it that it is too penal for a 9 hole muni meant to serve a local community & grow the game) and enjoyed north sound in grand cayman as well.

I also enjoyed Skyway. 


Photos from my June 2016 visit:


http://www80.homepage.villanova.edu/joseph.bausch/images/albums/Skyway/index.html

[Steve Lang]

   Very interesting man and life, RIP RC.


Seems I play RC's Wildcat once a year, and have fun on the Houston links with a view...,  certainly no lack of challenges and constraint building at landfill sites and I can appreciate the results! 


ps  Never go out when its sunny in the summer, no shade!


https://wildcatgolfclub.com




pss  definitely not a fan of RC's work at Panther Trail, no one's perfect, and I imagine he'd agree