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GolfClubAtlas.com => Golf Course Architecture Discussion Group => Topic started by: PCCraig on December 14, 2020, 12:07:38 PM
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I've heard from a few people here in town that Andrew Green has signed up as consulting architect at Interlachen CC here in Minneapolis.
A few big names came through town in the Fall to tour & interview for the job, but Green won out.
I played my last round of the year out at ICC a couple of months ago, and it will be exciting to see what AG puts together for the course. The course needs to remove quite a bit of trees in my opinion, and that coupled with mowing line restoration would make a big difference.
The course has a number of wonderful holes and greens such as the 2nd, 4th (!), 5th, 6th, 7th, 10th, 13th (!!), and 18th. It shouldn't need dramatic work to shine the old lady up a bit, however based on AG's past work I'm sure it will be more dramatic than I can imagine.
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Pat,
Don't forget about the cool stuff going on at Town & Country Club and Minneapolis Golf Club, too ;)
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Pat,
Don't forget about the cool stuff going on at Town & Country Club and Minneapolis Golf Club, too ;)
How could I forget?!
ICC is a big project, hence the separate thread. Surprised it wasn't mentioned previously.
Lots of great work going on in town. Yours at T&C and MGC (which is terrific - saw it last fall), Urbina at WBYC and Midland Hills, Axland at Oak Ridge, Rae at Olympic Hills and Northland, etc.
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A little video from Mr. Green posted a couple of weeks ago that was forwarded to me earlier in case any one is interested:
https://vimeo.com/486433526
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Exciting times, thanks for sharing.
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Don't forget number nine, but it might be the famous hole, given Bobby's lily pad shot.
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I was teasing, Pat.
As you know well, there's a deep roster of excellent golf in MSP. It'll be interesting to see what transpires at Interlachen.
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Interlachen: A Legend Reborn(Mike Fore)
This August, after a 14 month restoration by Andrew Green, Interlachen returned to a design that both Donald Ross and Bobby Jones would look fondly upon.As you enter Interlachen Country Club, one of the first things you come across as you make your way to the stately Tudor-style clubhouse is the Adirondack chairs around the eighteenth green. It was at this location ,of course, that Bobby Jones made a forty-foot putt to win the 1930 U.S. Open by two shots and complete the third leg of the grand slam.
Interlachen, with its rolling hills and challenging layout, was one of those rare courses that demanded precision, patience, and the kind of quiet confidence that Jones possessed in spades. Even on a week with extreme heat in which Jones lost 17 pounds, he persevered to victory and in doing so, put Interlachen Country Club on the map as one of the great golf courses in the United States.Willie Watson was the original Interlachen architect, but the golf course Bobby Jones played that week was the vision of Donald Ross who was hired in 1920 and a significant renovation began. Ross ended up changing every hole from the original plan and Interlachen became a true Donald Ross gem.
Fast forward 94 years from that U.S. Open and enter Andrew Green, who could be called the modern day “Donald Ross Whisperer” after his work at Oak Hill, Scioto, Wannamoisett and East Lake. After a fourteen-month renovation, Green has Interlachen ready to take its place back in the spotlight as one of the great courses in the United States.