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Kevin_Keeley:
I've been invited to play Del Paso in Sacramento and did some research because my host said they are looking to spend $10 million to redo it. Then I found out it's a Hebert Fowler course.

Is this so and does it have any of his touch remaining? Was it ever top notch? They did once host a US Women's Open, so it must have something special about it.
KK

Joel_Stewart:
Do you mean restore it or re-do it?

Joel_Stewart:
This was the information on golfcourse.com,

"This course has many trees and thick vegetation lining its fairways. It was built on rolling hills. There is one creek and one lake that come into play on six holes. This course has been redesigned several times this century, the latest by Gary Roger Baird in 1981 and Robert Muir Graves in 1985."

The architect is listed as John Black in 1915?  

Mindy:

--- Quote from: Kevin_Keeley on November 12, 2003, 11:29:30 AM ---I've been invited to play Del Paso in Sacramento and did some research because my host said they are looking to spend $10 million to redo it. Then I found out it's a Hebert Fowler course.

Is this so and does it have any of his touch remaining? Was it ever top notch? They did once host a US Women's Open, so it must have something special about it.
KK



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Mindy:
Actually, yes there is a lot left of what Fowler originally designed, the whole course. We have a greater number of trees and underbruch that are being slowly thinned, however the redesign info is all worng. Baird came up with a master plan that only enhanced and added bunkers to the course. The members never fully encompassed his whole plan. Graves on provided a guideline for the irrigation system. No one has truely tried to even touch a redesign until now and Kyle Phillips is trying to do just that. It is something, and to play it would be step back into a time when art and nature came together to form a test of golf in a park like setting. However, I may be a bit bias, I am a member who happens to be on the green committee. Mindy

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