Saving Belmont GC

[DeadMan]

Saw this article over the weekend, and wanted to share it: http://www.friedegg.co/golf-courses/proposed-belmont-changes

Short version: this is one of two public AW Tillinghast designs that have hosted a major (the other is Bethpage Black). The county that runs the course is looking to redesign the course to make it easier to maintain but also removing most of the unique characteristics of a Tillinghast design. I had no idea about this course, or that you could play a major championship venue and Tillinghast course for $24. It would be sad to see it become another rote public course.

[DeadMan]

And Geoff Shackelford talked about it on Golf Channel this morning: http://www.golfchannel.com/video/shackelford-hopeful-aw-tillinghast-course-restoration/

[jsgolfer]

I've been to Richmond and play lots of golf and didn't even know this course existed.

[DeadMan]

Apparently, they already changed their mind:

 

[Buckeyebowman]

Weird, but when I first saw this thread, and that it referred to Tillinghast, I would have bet money that it would refer to bunkers! Tillinghast is known for a lot of things, but chief among them would be bunker design! Bunker maintenance and reconstruction being as expensive as they are, bunkers are usually the first things to suffer when a course encounters money problems!

Heck, our local Donald Ross design, Mill Creek, is dumping a quarter Million dollars into bunker work on the South 18 alone! And just for the greenside bunkers! Since there are over 100 bunkers on the course as a whole, it's a big job!

Hope your folks find a better way around this.