High Meadow Ranch Golf Club re-opened for play yesterday 13 days after being forced to close from the damages and effects of Hurricane Ike. High winds and heavy rains from the storm uprooted and toppled several hundred trees on the property and power and utilities were knocked out for nearly two weeks. “The past couple weeks have been quite stressful for our staff as many employees have also been without power to their homes, as well,” saysCody Spivey, general manager. “Our team worked dawn to dusk to help clean up the timber and debris on the golf course and surrounding roadways. The loss of power prevented us from irrigating the golf course and we were really starting to get concerned about possible turf damage, but the course looks like it weathered the storm as good as can be expected.”
Robert Trent Jones II will help unveil Lübker Golf Resort, the first real estate golf course development project in Denmark, at a ceremony this week in Djurs. The RTJ II design team created three nine-hole loops (Sky, Forest and Sand) in a clover-shaped formation, which together form a 27-hole championship golf course. A nine-hole Academy Course also was constructed which will serve as the centerpiece of the Lübker Golf Academy facilities.
The RTJ II design team also is close to unveiling another project, a full 18-hole unveiling at Brightwater in Colorado’s Vail Valley. The front nine debuted over Labor Day weekend, while the back nine will open at the end of the month. Brightwater’s 18-hole, 72-par course is the fifth longest course in the country.
Representatives of Burroughs and Chapin Co., owners and operators of Pine Lakes Country Club, Myrtle Beach, S.C., expect the Pine Lakes clubhouse restoration project will be complete in March 2009. Burroughs & Chapin began an extensive, multi-million dollar project in November 2006 to bring the grandeur and regal stature of the once-great Ocean Forest Hotel to the Pine Lakes golf clubhouse.