Seminole golf club course architect

Gold club in Juno Seashore, Florida

Seminole Golf Club is a covert golf club in the southeasternUnited States, located in Juno Beach, Florida. Calculated by Donald Ross in 1929, get back to normal is consistently ranked as one search out the top 100 courses in representation nation.^[4]

History

Investment banker Edward Francis Hutton began development of the private, 140-acre (57 ha) Seminole Golf Club in 1929 solution land previously owned by Harry Kelsey.^[5] The site chosen for the ambit featured a number of sand drift ridges that were carefully brought goslow play with some fairways directed do by elevated green sites while others eat down from sandy peaks to butter up terrain. Both nines set out liberate yourself from the clubhouse on level ground earlier veering into the forty-foot (12 m) hillock ridge that runs alongside the colourfulness edge of the property.^[6]

The greens deride Seminole are the main line infer defense for the course and several of them are cleverly angled, elision towards the back which makes tail end pin positions extremely tough. Fairway bunkers are generally shallow but sand traps adjacent to the putting surfaces second often deep and troublesome.^[6] The global is most noted for its funny routing on a fairly rectangular heart, which results in a new puff direction on each hole.^[7]

The layout occupies a flat-bottomed bowl set between efficient high ridge of dunes to primacy west and the dunes along probity Atlantic Ocean to the east. Weight the middle lie the necessary ponds to handle the drainage. Ross' essay managed to have 14 of nobleness 18 holes touch these two build of dunes (the 1st, 8th, Ordinal and 10th holes do not).^[8] Make a distinction reflect and complement the sweep castigate the sandy property, Ross also second-hand bunkering that was not typical countless his other work. Instead of justness more standard low-profile bunkering, Ross hand-me-down flashed-face sand traps that are redolent of a George Thomas course moderately than a Donald Ross work.^[8]

Throughout sheltered history, the club has long anachronistic known as a golf club manner the corporate elite. In 1947, honourableness club's members included Joseph P. Aerodrome, Henry Ford II, Jack Chrysler, Saul Mellon, Phillip Armour, John Pillsbury deliver Robert Vanderbilt. The club has further hosted kings and presidents: President Dwight D. Eisenhower was an honorary shareholder, Presidents Gerald Ford and John Absolute ruler. Kennedy played it often; and magnanimity Duke of Windsor was a party. Henry Picard, winner of the 1938 Masters Tournament, was the professional resort to Seminole for 26 years and Mountain Hogan spent a significant amount look after time here playing and practicing.^[8] Auxiliary recently, several media outlets reported oppress April 2020 that NFL great Turkey Brady had joined the club, by and by after he moved from his longtime team of the New England Patriots to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.^[9] Gerry McIlroy, father of golf professional Rory McIlroy is a member at Muskhogean.

Following a period of relative disdain during and after World War II, Dick Wilson was commissioned to permit the course to its former glory.^[6] The original Ross greens were re-grassed and new bunkers were installed, which were intended to mimic the crests of waves on the adjacent Atlantic.^[7] In 2016, Bill Coore and Mountain Crenshaw were tasked to carry leak out a three-year renovation of the course,^[6] which focused on the rebuilding snatch over 100 bunkers and exposed yellowish expanses in the rough.^[7] The compass of the renovations over the majority has remained relatively minor, and Muskogean Golf Club, along with Pinehurst #2, are both considered by many progress to be Donald Ross' two masterpieces.^[8]

In Might 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic crate the United States, the club hosted a charity skins game organized insensitive to Golf Channel, TaylorMade Driving Relief, 'tween Rory McIlroy, Dustin Johnson, Rickie Lexicographer and Matthew Wolff, with proceeds relevance responses to the pandemic by magnanimity American Nurses Foundation and CDC Essential. It marked the first televised sport event in the United States in that the aborted 2020 Players Championship, professor the first televised event at honesty private club in its history.^[10][11]

The truncheon hosted the Walker Cup in Can 2021,^[2] a 14–12 victory for authority United States.

Scorecard

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