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DONALD ROSS NEWS FEED
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"Thanks to a restoration by Gil Hanse and his design team, Worcester Country Club can now lay claim to a golf course whose playing character befits its classical heritage."
Tags: Brad Klein, Donald Ross, Gil Hanse, Massachusetts, Private Golf, Restoration, Ron Prichard
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"The application, submitted late last month to the town, proposes constructing 90 three-story structures consisting of a mixture of apartment units distributed on several properties associated with the current Winnapaug Golf Course at 184 Shore Road."
Tags: Development, Donald Ross, Rhode Island
"Cumberland County Commissioners are now considering two locations to rebuild the high school. Recently, the Cumberland County School Board voted 5 to 3 in favor of submitting Stryker Golf Course at Fort Liberty as an option to county commissioners."
Tags: Course Closure, Donald Ross, North Carolina, Public Golf
"Overall, the report recommended the Stryker Golf Course site as a future location for E.E. Smith. ‘The site has good street access although travel times would probably be extended due to the closure of Bragg Blvd through the military reservations,’ the report says."
"By the time Franz finished, in late 2021, Southern Pines had been returned to its rustic beginnings, with reborn greens and bunkers, rugged sandy wastes, and wider, firmer fairways that allowed the ground game and invited different angles of attack."
Tags: Donald Ross, Kyle Franz, North Carolina, Public Golf, Renovation
"The club has received an Environmental Excellence Award from the American Society of Golf Course Architects in recognition of the project’s positive impact on the environment."
Tags: Donald Ross, Florida, Municipal Golf, Park, Public Golf, Renovation, Richard Mandell, Short Course
"The future of Westerly’s Winnapaug Country Club looks “gloomy.” This comes after a new proposal from Winn Properties LLC to build 2,300 housing units on the Donald Ross course could be filed with the town early in 2024, according to reporting by The Westerly Sun."
Tags: Development, Donald Ross, Nicklaus Design, Rhode Island
"The proposal lists a development of 58 buildings of up to three stories on the site, consisting of townhouses, according to the RI Housing application. Two-bedroom market-rate rentals are projected at $3,000 per month in the RI housing forms."
"‘Bobby Jones Golf Club in Sarasota is as significant as they come because the land on which Donald Ross created this masterpiece is still intact, allowing us to restore his original plan,’ Mandell said."
Tags: Donald Ross, Florida, Municipal Golf, Park, Public Golf, Restoration, Richard Mandell, Short Course
"The 18-hole course was originally designed by Donald Ross and opened in 1926. During the course’s construction, the club decided to move the planned location of the clubhouse and while the holes remain in the locations set by Ross, the sequencing has changed, with both nines finishing with a par three."
Tags: Barry Jordan, Brad Klein, Donald Ross, New York, Private Golf, Restoration
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