TPC San Antonio has announced the hiring of Golf Course Superintendent Tom Lively to oversee all agronomy for the 36-hole facility. Lively comes to TPC San Antonio from Medinah Country Club in Chicago, where he served as director of golf course operations for the past seven years. His tenure at Medinah included the 2006 PGA Championship, won by Tiger Woods.
“We're very pleased to have someone of Tom's stature come on board at TPC San Antonio,” said Cal Roth, senior vice president of agronomy for the PGA Tour. “Considering the agronomic and major championship experience he developed at Medinah Country Club, Tom is a valuable addition to this exciting project and the TPC Network, and we are confident he will do a wonderful job in his new roll.”
TPC San Antonio will open in Spring 2010 with golf courses designed by newly announced World Golf of Fame inductee Pete Dye and Greg Norman, a World Golf Hall of Fame player who has established himself as a course designer. Dye is designing the AT&T Canyons Course with player consultant Bruce Lietzke and Norman is designing the AT&T Oaks Course with player consultant Sergio Garcia.
“After working at Medinah for the past seven years and going through a very successful PGA Championship in 2006, I decided to look toward the future,” Lively said. “I have always wanted to be involved with the construction of a new golf course and when this opportunity came along, I couldn’t turn it down. The project is bigger than I could have ever imagined and presents a very unique and exciting opportunity. I look forward to working with everyone involved and preparing for the opening of two spectacular golf courses.”
The course will feature a closed-loop irrigation system designed to insure protection of the Edwards Aquifer, San Antonio’s main water source.
Play at the club is reserved for members and guests of the adjacent 1,002-room JW Marriott San Antonio Resort and Spa. Membership information can be obtained at www.tpcsanantonio.com. Deposits for Founder Memberships, the first category of membership available at TPC San Antonio, will be accepted in June 2008.
More details of golf course construction, including photos and video can be found at TPC San Antonio’s construction blog: www.blog.tpcsanantonio.com.
