rchesnut,
There was a thread about a potential second course at Ballyneal called Grateful Dunes.. here is a quote from an article..
"Today, the Ballyneal golf club experience (like that at Sand Hills and Dismal River) is largely available only to the well-heeled or well-connected. Ballyneal is restricted to members and guests. But the O'Neal brothers hope to change that, soon, and expose the charms and challenges of links golf to others by building a public course.
While the public links -- which they intend to call Grateful Dunes -- will likely have a few cart paths, the brothers want it to retain the deep, blowout bunkers and the natural feel and contours of the private course. They have started planning the public course on land near the current facility, and hope to open it in the next few years.
"We are excited about that," Rupert O'Neal said one evening, sitting with friends, family and club members at the restaurant at Ballyneal. "We want to be able to offer this type of golf to more people and we want to create more jobs in the community."
If so, the public course could extend the lure of golf in what remains a largely remote part of the country. For now, Ballyneal sits as an oasis on the high plains."
Has this changed? I certainly hope not.