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honorees
NCR Country Club
Kettering, Ohio
Short game facility and flood prevention
program by ASGCA Past President
Dr. Michael Hurdzan, ASGCA Fellow
Heron Course, The Oaks Club
Osprey, Florida
Renovation by Hurdzan/Fry Environmental
Golf Design
Pelican’s Nest Golf Club
Bonita Springs, Florida
Renovation by Jan Bel Jan, ASGCA
University of Southern Mississippi Short
Game Facility
Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Short game facility by Nathan Crace, ASGCA
Wilmette Golf Club
Wilmette, Illinois
Renovation and flood prevention by ASGCA
President Greg Martin, ASGCA
ognition Program Honorees
Golf in China’s fitness plan
China
T
he State Council of China has
called for golf development
to be speeded up, as part of a
plan to develop the fitness and leisure
industry in the country.
A press release issued by the State
Council of China in late October 2016
references an official document that
calls for improvements in the fitness
and leisure service system, with a goal
to increase the output of the sector to
more than 3 trillion yuan by 2025.
The document references ‘daily
fitness sports’ such as soccer,
basketball and volleyball, ‘outdoor
and fashion sports’ including winter
sports, equestrian and golf, plus
‘sports with cultural characteristics,’
like kung fu, dragon boat and lion
dancing.
The golf industry hopes this news
represents a softening of China’s
stance towards golf. As recently
as 2015 the Communist Party in
China had banned its members from
joining golf clubs, and some recently-
built golf courses were returned to
farmland shortly after completion.
New course for Arcadia Bluffs
New course
F
ry/Straka Global Golf Course
Design has been hired to create
a second course at the Arcadia
Bluffs Golf Club in Arcadia, Michigan.
The new ‘Golden Age-style’
parkland course is to be created on a
310-acre site a mile south of the club’s
existing course. The project will also
include the creation of a new practice
range, short game area, putting green
and clubhouse at the new site.
“The site’s sandy soil conditions and
natural topography make it perfect
for golf,” said Dana Fry, ASGCA.
“The new course will also have very
large greens averaging in the 10,000
sq ft range, and be in shapes that
are rectangular and in some cases
more like squares. Bunkers will be
flat bottomed, cut into the existing
ground, with steep slopes going up to
the fairways and green complexes.”
The course, scheduled to open
in summer 2018, will be officially
named ‘The South Course at Arcadia
Bluffs,’ and will be very different to
the existing Arcadia Bluffs layout,
according to Fry.
The new parkland course will offer a contrast to the
existing links-style course (pictured) at Arcadia Bluffs
Photo: Arcadia Bluffs