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Bill Gayne

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Re: Interesting uses for property prior to a course being built on it
« Reply #25 on: May 05, 2010, 08:47:21 PM »
Listened to Peter Kessler interviewing Pete Dye this morning. Pete Dye quipped that the only calls he gets now are about sites that are either covered with rocks or under water. He also said that he has never had a true sand based site to work on and was still hoping to get one. I was a bit surpised by the sand site comment. 

cary lichtenstein

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Re: Interesting uses for property prior to a course being built on it
« Reply #26 on: May 06, 2010, 01:27:45 AM »
Whistling Straits-airport runway
Live Jupiter, Fl, was  4 handicap, played top 100 US, top 75 World. Great memories, no longer play, 4 back surgeries. I don't miss a lot of things about golf, life is simpler with out it. I miss my 60 degree wedge shots, don't miss nasty weather, icing, back spasms. Last course I played was Augusta

Jeff_Brauer

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Re: Interesting uses for property prior to a course being built on it
« Reply #27 on: May 06, 2010, 09:17:13 AM »
From my portfolio,

Quarry at Giants Ridge - former sand mine on one side of road, former taconite mine on the other

Legend at Giants Ridge - former USA Olympic Biathalon Training Site

Brookstone near Marietta, GA (and Legacy in same town) - Former Civil War Skirmish site

Links of Sierra Blanca, Ruidoso, NM - Former airport (where nearby mountains caused one too many accidents)

Cowboys Golf Club, Grapevine, Tx - Former excavation site for nearby Lake Grapevine Dam (and in building that, they found some dinosaur skeletons)

Whitestone in Benbrook, TX had the first white settlement house west of Ft. Worth with some artifacts to prove it

Cross Timbers in Azle, Tx has a former undeground safe house for Indian attacks from the 1800's

Palm Spring Golf Resort in Indonesia had some WWII Japanese Quonset huts and the like as a former camp.

I dd a nine hole expansion on an Air Force base in Clovis, NM where the site had been used for toxic waste burials.
Jeff Brauer, ASGCA Director of Outreach

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