TFC: Quick Reads | 09.16.24
INDUSTRY NEWS
The Club at Eaglebrooke: To begin course renovation in spring 2025
Bobby Jones Links: Extends Cobblestone GC management agreement
KemperSports: Makes 2024 Crain’s Chicago Business list
PGA of America: United States downs GB&I for 2024 PGA Cup
INDUSTRY NOTES
Dye Designs Group: Completes the redesign of four new holes on the?Copper Creek Golf Course?at Copper Mountain Resort in Copper Mountain, Colorado. Holes 12 through 15 were completely reimagined by Cynthia Dye McGarey, DDG’s principal architect, and her son, Matt McGarey, the firm’s senior design associate. The project brief also included repositioning tee boxes on the 16th hole and creation of a new back tee on No. 18. Copper Creek, originally designed by Pete and Perry Dye, opened for play in 1986. ... Myrtle Beach National: Reports that the front nine reimagination of its King’s North course is set to be complete for an early October reopening in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Architect Brandon Johnson has been overseeing the two-year two-part project that will include overhauling the back nine in summer 2025. King’s North’s front nine will feature the restoration of the course’s greens to their original or expanded size and with TifEagle bermudagrass. ... PGA Tour: Announces the launch of a PGA Tour World Feed in 2025, starting with the Players Championship. The feed will originate from the Tour’s 165,000 square-foot multimedia PGA Tour Studios, which is opening in January and will allow the Tour and its international media partners to provide fans with more customized coverage and storytelling of the Tour’s international players, complemented by a customized graphics package and a dedicated international commentary team.?
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Tiger Woods had another surgery performed on Sept. 13, and is expected to be out between eight and 12 weeks. In 2024, Woods played all four majors for the first time since 2019, but made the cut only at the Masters. What should be the realistic competitive expectations for Woods, 48, going forward??
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