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Michael Chadwick's Brambles Course Profile Now Live
Andrew Harvie:
Brambles Course Profile
James Duncan's impressive list of golf courses under the Coore & Crenshaw helm includes the unfussy Austin Golf Club in the plains of Texas, in the shadows of the notable Hamptons clubs at East Hampton, Clear Creek in the Californian mountainside near Lake Tahoe, and the dramatic Shanquin Bay, edged into the dramatic shoreline of the Chinese coast. Quite the résumé! Notably, he led the jobs at both Austin Golf Club and Shanquin Bay.
While living in the Bay Area in the early 2010s, Duncan began to envision a club that captured the spirit of the game from his homeland of Scotland, particularly motivated by North Berwick and St Andrews. Not that the San Francisco area doesn't have great golf, but he wanted something of his own, and Middletown, California seemed like the perfect fit. In 2014, Duncan found the plot of land he felt best-suited for his vision, acquired in 2017, and in 2024, the golf course opened as a Bill Coore & Ben Crenshaw golf course.
GCA member Michael Chadwick wrote a course profile above, which you can click on the link and read in detail. I have yet to get to Brambles, but what a superb mission, effort, and aesthetic—certainly unique in California and elsewhere. Congratulations to all involved!
John Foley:
Those are some spectacular views!! VERY well done!
Cal Seifert:
Out of all of the courses that have opened in the past few years, this is the one that interests me the most. I love the lay of the land look and long views of the course. Great to see course profiles being uploaded with some regularity again. One of my favorite aspects of this site.
Joe Hancock:
If anyone gets the ooportunity to meet and spend time with James, do it. He’s a dear friend and a wonderfully smart, well traveled man. A captivating story-teller as well. I hope to get out to Brambles at some point to take in what he and his team created.
John Kirk:
This new course scores high on the uniqueness scale for me. it looks fun and it looks interesting.
(a couple days later)...
Boy I have become a master thread killer. Not my intent.
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