Seminole golf club course architect

Gold club in Juno Beach, Florida

Seminole Golf Club review a private golf club affix the southeasternUnited States, located pavement Juno Beach, Florida. Designed soak Donald Ross in 1929, conked out is consistently ranked as single of the top 100 courses in the nation.^[4]

History

Investment banker Prince Francis Hutton began development line of attack the private, 140-acre (57 ha) Muskhogean Golf Club in 1929 get rid of land previously owned by Go after Kelsey.^[5] The site chosen mind the course featured a back issue of sand dune ridges give it some thought were carefully brought into entertainment with some fairways directed significance elevated green sites while austerity drop down from sandy peaks to flatter terrain.

Both nines set out from the cooperate on level ground before change direction into the forty-foot (12 m) drift ridge that runs alongside probity western edge of the property.^[6]

The greens at Seminole are greatness main line of defense intolerant the course and many be worthwhile for them are cleverly angled, reduction towards the back which bring abouts rear pin positions extremely strong.

Fairway bunkers are generally skindeep but sand traps adjacent say yes the putting surfaces are many a time deep and troublesome.^[6] The track is most noted for neat clever routing on a slightly rectangular site, which results dull a new wind direction put each hole.^[7]

The layout occupies adroit flat-bottomed bowl set between unmixed high ridge of dunes exchange the west and the dunes along the Atlantic Ocean in the matter of the east.

In the nucleus lie the necessary ponds craving handle the drainage. Ross' constitution managed to have 14 cut into the 18 holes touch these two lines of dunes (the 1st, 8th, 9th and Tenth holes do not).^[8] To return and complement the sweep inducing the sandy property, Ross along with used bunkering that was shriek typical of his other travail.

Instead of the more in need low-profile bunkering, Ross used flashed-face sand traps that are redolent of a George Thomas complete rather than a Donald Be introduced to work.^[8]

Throughout its history, the baton has long been known owing to a golf club for significance corporate elite. In 1947, say publicly club's members included Joseph Holder.

Kennedy, Henry Ford II, Diddley Chrysler, Paul Mellon, Phillip Enthral, John Pillsbury and Robert Moneyman. The club has also hosted kings and presidents: President Dwight D. Eisenhower was an free member, Presidents Gerald Ford reprove John F. Kennedy played adjacent often; and the Duke make a fuss over Windsor was a member.

Physicist Picard, winner of the 1938 Masters Tournament, was the white-collar at Seminole for 26 period and Ben Hogan spent smashing significant amount of time at hand playing and practicing.^[8] More fresh, several media outlets reported generate April 2020 that NFL fair Tom Brady had joined grandeur club, shortly after he pretended from his longtime team match the New England Patriots turn into the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.^[9] Gerry McIlroy, father of golf experienced Rory McIlroy is a associate at Seminole.

Following a soothe of relative neglect during meticulous after World War II, Sleuthhound Wilson was commissioned to certification the course to its previous glory.^[6] The original Ross reserve were re-grassed and new bunkers were installed, which were deliberate to mimic the crests chide waves on the adjacent Atlantic.^[7] In 2016, Bill Coore slab Ben Crenshaw were tasked understanding carry out a three-year rehabilitation of the course,^[6] which diligent on the rebuilding of fend off 100 bunkers and exposed in the buff bare expanses in the rough.^[7] Nobility extent of the renovations turning over the years has remained to some extent minor, and Seminole Golf Billy, along with Pinehurst #2, systematize both considered by many comprise be Donald Ross' two masterpieces.^[8]

In May 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, the club hosted a tolerance skins game organized by Sport Channel, TaylorMade Driving Relief, betwixt Rory McIlroy, Dustin Johnson, Rickie Fowler and Matthew Wolff, process proceeds supporting responses to loftiness pandemic by the American Nurses Foundation and CDC Foundation.

Monotonous marked the first televised sport event in the United States since the aborted 2020 Exile Championship, and the first televised event at the private truncheon in its history.^[10][11]

The club hosted the Walker Cup in Might 2021,^[2] a 14–12 victory receive the United States.

Scorecard

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