Renovation of public course in Pound ridge?

[Jay Flemma]

A colleague of mine had heard "they" are redoing a nine hole public course in pound ridge into an 18 hole design.  Supposedely its a Pete Dye signature course.  Does anyone know about it and have any details?

[Mike_Sweeney]

Jay,

It is my impression from driving by there that Pound Ridge GC was plowed under for houses not holes.

[Eric Franzen]

A colleague of mine had heard "they" are redoing a nine hole public course in pound ridge into an 18 hole design.  Supposedely its a Pete Dye signature course.  Does anyone know about it and have any details?

Actually it is listed as a Perry Dye design.

http://www.dyedesigns.com/courselist.html

Edit: Perry Dye is a consulting architect for the project according to the information on Dye Designs site.

[Tom Dunne]

This is the rumor, all right. I'd heard something similar, Jay. The only difference is that I hadn't heard "signature", but rather that it's some combination of Pete and Perry Dye (Pound Ridge is listed as "UC" on the Dye Designs website). I also heard it's to be a CCFAD. Would certainly like to know more--I have no idea if any of the above is anything more than rumor.

[Mike_Sweeney]

Jay,

You are absolutely correct and thanks. Pound Ridge GC is about 10 minutes from our weekend spot versus 40 minutes to Yale. I went by on my bike ride this morning. It is being built by:

http://www.heritage-links.com/poundridge.html

Those are pictures of the old course. It is still early, but the site is clear and the old tiny log cabin of a clubhouse is still there. The old course was on a pretty good piece of property, so I am excited to see and hear more on this project.

I am amazed that this got through local zoning without more chatter in the local press, but it appears that they are in full construction mode.

[Mike_Sweeney]

This routing is dated at October 98. That was a long environmntal process!

Posted at http://www.poundridgegolf.com High Ridge road is to the right.