Archive for April, 2000

DESIGNING MEN//MINNESOTA’S `BIG THREE’ GOLF ARCHITECTS, JOEL GOLDSTRAND, DON HERFORT AND GARRETT GILL, ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR MANY OF THE REGION’S TOP COURSES.

Saturday, April 22nd, 2000

If you play much golf in these parts, you’ve probably played a course designed by the “Big Three” local golf architects - Joel Goldstrand, Don Herfort and Garrett Gill and their associates.Their works include many of the state’s most-popular courses. The Pines in Nisswa might be the best work of Goldstrand, 60, of Plymouth. His […]

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DOC WORKS CHEAP//DESIGNING GOLF COURSES ISN’T LIKE PULLING TEETH, BUT MANY LAYOUTS IN THE AREA ARE THE WORK OF A RETIRED DENTIST

Saturday, April 22nd, 2000

There are the legendary golf course designers - Donald Ross, A.W. Tillinghast, Alister MacKenzie and Seth Raynor, to mention a few.There are the professional golfers who have augmented their careers by getting into course architecture, big names such as Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Tom Weiskopf. There are the career golf architect families, such as […]

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