By Design - Winter 2018

DIGEST 9 Restoration Bergin completes restoration G olf course architect Bill Bergin, ASGCA, has completed a restoration project at Chickasaw Country Club in Memphis, Tennessee. Chickasaw opened its 18-hole course, designed by ASGCA Founding Father William Langford, in 1924. According to Bergin, the club wanted the project to return the design to its roots. Bergin said Langford’s work at Skokie and Lawsonia provided inspiration for the design—particularly the bunker faces and angular slopes. “The project included all new greens complexes, bunkers that matched the original style and new forward tees on every hole. Over 150 trees were removed as the canopies on some holes seemed to practically touch from one side of the fairway to the other.” Renovation Audubon CC course reopens A udubon Country Club in Naples, Florida, reopened in October following a three-year renovation project by golf course architect Drew Rogers, ASGCA. Audubon is a private golf community with a course originally designed by Joe Lee and built in 1989. The course has numerous lakes and holes fronting coastal estuaries and mangrove islands. “The club expressed a strong desire for more inspired contouring and greens that were more interesting but also fitting with their surrounds,” said Rogers. “My challenge in redesigning the greens was to minimize the impact of the work area—to keep the new greens within the original fill pads—while also expanding the surfaces to recapture lost cupping areas and to better integrate the perimeter contours into the greens themselves.” Contractor Glase Golf Construction rebuilt and recontoured all eighteen greens during the course’s six-month closure this summer. George upgrades practice facility The Country Club of Florida near Boynton Beach in Palm Beach County is upgrading its practice facility with the help of golf course architect Lester George, ASGCA. The project will include an expanded driving range, short game practice facility and teaching facility. The upgrade is scheduled to coincide with a renovation of greens and regrassing. Collaboration at Greensburg Golf course architect James Cervone, ASGCA, is collaborating with professional golfer Rocco Mediate on renovation work at Greensburg Country Club in Pennsylvania, USA. “The work includes addressing the putting surfaces on three greens and re-working a portion of the outside of the green on fifteen …and some tree clearing on hole five,” said Cervone. Weed renovates Golden Marsh Bobby Weed, ASGCA, has completed a renovation of the Golden Marsh course at the Harbour Ridge Yacht Country Club in Palm City, Florida. “The updated course has more enhanced native features and coquina rock walls, along with greater variety and visual appeal,” said Weed. Photo: The Bausch Collection Photo: Cervone Golf Design The restored twelfth hole at Chickasaw Country Club Photo: Bill Bergin Photo: Drew Rogers Photo: Arthur Cicconi Golf Shots, Inc.