His course Giants Ridge won the best new upscale public course in the latest Golf Digest.  This course has been well discussed here on GCA.

Some other GCA favorites fared well:

Sutton Bay - best new private course.

The Rawls Course - runner up in affordable public.

Blackhawk - Rod Whitman, runner up best new Canadian.  

Is GCA going mainstream?  

Does anyone have all the results yet?

Dan - given how often I see "it's" when it's supposed to be "its", I have gained a new measure for respect for Minnesotans and their sparing use of apostrophes.

And how do you know it's not a ridge filled with giants, who don't really own the place but just kinda hang out there? That is, the usage here being very creative, with "giants" as an adjective?

See how far I will go to give people the benefit of the doubt?

 

BTW, if anyone can find a link to the entire list, please do post it.  I likely won't see the magazine for awhile and I am curious if any I rated made it to the top.

TH

Craig,

I read this and thought that perhaps GCA.com should have a section listing recent accomplishments or projects.

I also read that Tripp Davis just partnered with Justin Leonard as well.

When these fellows are so willing to spend their time on this site, informing and educating us, it would seem appropriate to recognize significant events in their design careers.

Ran,

How about a recent events section ?  
A did you know category that gets swept after one year.

That's great Pat.  Make sure there is a hotline link so these architect's marketing companies can easily send daily accomplishment emails. That's just what we need here another avenue for self promotion.

Kelly Blake Moran,

If you were retained to design or restore a golf course, why wouldn't we want to credit you for your efforts and recognize your work.

It wouldn't be promo pieces, it would be a section acknowledging works in progress.

I thought it was a good idea, but I'll defer to what others think.

The Rock winning is just so ridiculous given that I am the only one I know to say anything positive about it. Some people have actually been openly hostile to me when I've worn a vest I was given at the media opening. I had it so far behind Blackhawk that I'm amazed at how this happened. It isn't even the fourth best course in Muskoka, and has several truly awful holes.
There's lots of background on this so-called "Nick Faldo/Brit Stenson" design, especially the fact the routing wasn't done by them. There are awful holding ponds all over the course -- and some remarkably bad holes -- like the 18th, for example, where you hit a five-iron off the tee on a par five, then hit a three wood over the marsh.

"Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how'd you like the play?"

Pat

I have no interest in knowing who restored some of the older courses.  We should honor the original architect not throw five names onto the scorecard.  It is only used for PR purposes and generally by people who should not be touching the classic courses.

Any club doing any research as to who can best handle their resoration needs can find the information somewhere.

has anyone else seen a full list of results?

Pat -

Good idea. Perhaps have the architect himself post a few comments about location, estimated finish date, pub v. private. Basic factual stuff.

Bob

Tommy,

The Giant footprint is not on The Quarry course that won the new GD award, it's on the original course at GR, The Legend (which placed 8th in 1998 for Best New Upscale).

Hey, Tommy, in defense of the footprint (not that Jeff really needs defending) you probably wouldn't guess it was a footprint from the ground level. It just looks like a collection of bunkers placed in a strategic spot at the left corner of a slight dogleg left hole -- a nice challenge to test your length off the tee if you're so inclined to try to cut the dogleg.

From the air, it's a footprint. But who sees courses from the air, except when you're thumbing through the promotional brochure?

Some months ago there was a thread about A Sense of Humor in Golf Course Architecture, and few examples could be found (outside of Desmond Muirhead, who's a little too funny for my tastes.) I love classical design as much as anyone, and I'm not saying every course needs a footprint, but the one I know of doesn't spoil the course in the slightest, and perhaps even adds a smile for some players.

I believe Jeff said he wanted to do another footprint at Giant's Ridge to make it look (from the air) as though the giant had walked across the course. I wish he had.