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Redtail Golf Course As mentioned in the revised review of Redtail Golf Course, many great golf clubs have benefited from autocratic rule. Redtail is a modern day example. No doubt its narrow fairways and small, slick greens would be modified if pandering to a large membership’s tastes was required. Fifteen years since its opening, Redtail remains true to its founders’ vision of a low profile course that challenges the best.
As Steel’s first North American design (associate Tom Mackenzie was his man on the ground), it occupies an interesting place in modern golf. From when they found the property in 1988 until the course opened in 1991, the concept of minimalism had started to take hold. This design is an early example of keeping the features low to the ground. For instance, there are no bunkers flashed up behind the greens to aid the golfer with depth perception. Instead, its pot bunkers are below green level and their presence is more evident after a round of two than before. Good players have long appreciated the subtle hidden terrors that this design possesses.
Redtail narrowly missed cracking GOLF’s world top 100 (named a Hidden Gem twice) in 1991 and 1993 as it represented a refreshing change to the overdone designs that plagued Canada the 1980s. However, its very lack of flashiness may be hurting it today with raters who blow in for one afternoon looking for eye candy and wow features. Such people leave disappointed, this is a pity as Redtail deserves more study than that.
Fortunately, the fickle nature of raters doesn’t much matter to the leadership at Redtail whose autocratic rule helps make Redtail a joy to spend a day or more, both playing golf and kicking around the clubhouse.