Maketewah Country Club in Cincinnati, Ohio, has reopened its golf course following a restoration by Brian Silva.The club was founded in 1910 after moving from the nearby Avondale Athletic Club (with that site becoming the Xavier University campus). Tom Bendelow designed the original course and, in 1919, Donald Ross carried out a redesign that included creating two new holes (the third and fourth), which are still part of the current routing.
In 2010, the club hired Silva to create a masterplan that would restore the course’s Ross identity. The $6.5 million project, which was completed in three phases, began in 2012 with work on holes two, four, five and ten, tree removal, and the introduction of a new 2.5-acre short-game area and an indoor practice facility. The second and third phases focused on restoring bunkers and greens, tee work, shifting and expanding fairways, regrassing and eliminating select cart paths.
Bunkers are now reminiscent to those designed by Ross, whether that be the existing hazards that have been restored or the new ones that have been added (25 new fairway bunkers have been built as part of the project) to better frame the holes. The Better Billy Bunker method is now featured in all bunkers.
Fairway bunkers are now more perpendicular in shape. “We’re trying to put a little movement in the bunker faces so that they capture people’s attention,” said Silva on
the club’s YouTube channel, reviewing the restored course. “And hopefully capture their fancy, and that they are assisting in the site’s drama and beauty.”
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