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MODERN
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Opening Shot
Dave
and
Tim
Features Here We Go Again!
It’s amazing how quickly the leaves fall off the calendar, isn’t it? Seems
12 Ravisloe: South Suburban Gem
The spirit of Donald Ross lurks in every corner of this intriguing
once-private layout in Homewood
Departments
like yesterday we were raking leaves off the lawn and it’s already time to get
serious about a new golf season.
Visit our
GOLFChicago
5 Opening Shot This is season 128 for golf in Chicago, if you’re counting, going all the way
back to the time Charlie Blair Macdonald sank a handful of soup cans in the Magazine
16 Head to the Hill Country
Grab your 10-gallon hat and make for Texas, for you won’t want to
miss teeing it up at Horseshoe Bay Resort
6 The Good Stuff
Todd Mrowice Prowls
the Aisles
ground on a pal’s estate in Lake Forest and proceeded to tee it up.
Hey, it was a Fan Page
beginning. on facebook.
20
This issue start’s
It’s Showtime! 8 Instruction
GOLFChicago’s 24th
The Tinley Park Golf Show is back, better than ever, and we have Mike Carbray On the
all the details Wedge in Your Swing year of service to you,
and we commence
9 Profiles with stories on a pair
Dave Lockhart is Home in of delightful places
the Sports Zone Dome to play, one near and
10 Sweet Home Chicago one far.
First, Neal
23 GOLFChicago Map Kotlarek, who has
and Directory played more courses
How to Get There than he can remem-
28 Off The Shelf ber, takes you to
How To Play Faster Ravisloe, the private
course that went pub-
29 On The Corkscrews lic about a decade
Say What? (Part 3) ago, enabling one and
30 Final Putt all to play a Donald
This pot bunker lurks some 50 yards off the 18th tee at the foot of the
Neal Kotlarek Sums Up Ross course that was
fairway, daring those who top shots to miss. (Photo: Tim Cronin)
the Decade freshened by David Esler a few years before veterinarian Claude Gendreau
bought it and the gates opened.
Next, Neal details a trip to Horseshoe Bay Resort, located down yonder in
the Texas Hill Country. The location, speckled with three Robert Trent Jones
courses and one members-only course by Jack Nicklaus, proves the Lone Star
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INSTRUCTION Profiles
Flying Wedges Home in the Sports Zone Dome
Mike Carbray Dave Lockhart
O ne of the easiest and quickest ways to
lower your scores in 2020 is to improve
your distance control with your wedges.
Use Geometry to Wedge it Closer
To paraphrase the geometric definition for
a wedge, it’s a triangular-shaped simple
impact, the loft of the club changes and
distances change swing to swing. These
things make it difficult to develop consistent
M any claim that there’s no place like
dome. Oh wait a minute, that’s sup-
posed to be home! However, after one visit
Bombing long drives is fun, but what good machine used for lifting. If we can relate this distance control. to the Ultimate Sports Zone Dome in Aurora
does it do when your wedge shot misses to our golf wedge game, we can lift our ball Now that you have the basics, lets devel- you may want to embrace this statement.
the green? Here are a few things I see the to the desired distance easily. op three different carry distances derived Need a place to hit balls and hone your
best wedge players in the world all have in How To? from three different backswing lengths. You game during the arctic Chicago blast? We
common. If you can devote some of your Keep the angles created at address between can practice these shots with three distinct found a cool spot where you can actually
practice time to these concepts, you will your lead arm and club constant though the backswing positions and find out what your see the full flight of the ball with the only
see your wedges ending closer to the hole swing. To control distance, limit the amount distances are. exception being if you hit moon shots like
and rapidly dropping scores. of wrist hinge and unhinge during the swing. Distance 1: When the backswing length Dustin Johnson! The area where the dome is
This keeps the width of the swing and the has the shaft parallel to the ground. The located is surrounded by solid courses such
What the Best Do loft of the club consistent. It also helps you follow-through will be a similar distance but as Phillips Park, Fox Bend, and White Eagle
1. Slightly Open Stance in relation to the to create a shallow angle of decent and a slightly longer. Country Club in Naperville. The problem
target. This allows your hips and your small divot. This is the real secret to success Distance 2: When the lead arm is parallel is that you can’t play any of these places
chest to turn though the shot. for wedge play. Set up to the ball and draw a to the ground. Similar follow-though length. during old man winter.
2. Narrow Stance: Feet will get closer together line from your lead shoulder (the one closer Distance 3: Hands to head backswing. The Ultimate Sports Zone Dome is
depending on the distance of the shot. to the target; left shoulder for a right-handed This third length has the backswing ending by far the largest golf dome in the region
3. Center Ball Position: The ball should golfer) down to the center of the club face. when your hands reach the level of your reaching nearly 100 feet high and over 100
be in line with your sternum, and head This line will be the longest side of the wedge. head. yards long. It is also the largest indoor golf
centered over the ball. Having a head You want that distance to remain the same I like to use a mirror or record a few range and longest tenured opening in 1990.
position either too far back or too far back and though to the finish of the swing. swings with my phone to see these different This fully rejuvenated facility is an indoor
forward will effect the angle of the club If you then make your lead arm to the grip backswing lengths. Once you have the feel escape, which is clean and well lit, plus it
hitting the ground and will give fat shots the second line and then grip to the end of of the three different lengths, hit 10 balls features eye-catching suspended aiming
or too steep chopping motions. the shaft the third line, you will see a wedge with each, starting with the shaft parallel to banners, and target collection nets along
4. Slightly Forward Weight Distribution: I has been created. Keep that wedge from the ground and working up to see how far the turf so you can dial in your accuracy.
like to see 70% of your weight on your changing its shape and you will be able to these positions carry. Take it to the course The Ultimate Sports Zone Dome can
front leg throughout the entire swing. control how far the ball travels every time. and make 2020 the Year of the Flying Wedge. also help get your competitive juices flow-
5. Slower than Average Club Speed: Your How Not To? ing with skins games and golf leagues for
feel will be better when you swing the When the player adds extra wrist hinge in Mike Carbray is Director of Instruction Butterfield men and ladies. They have a snack shack
club slower. The best wedge players the back swing or flexes the lead elbow ,the CC and Journey 2 Better Golf with food and various cold drinks, but if
judge their distance by the length of width of the swing changes, which leads to 2018 IPGA Teacher of the Year you want to have something with more
their backswing and not the speed of inconsistent contact and angle of attack. www.mikecarbraygolf.com giddy-up, you are welcome to bring in
the club. Also, if the wrist angles change around http://www.linksvideo.net/instruction your own adult libation.
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Sweet
Harbor, Mich., from May 21-24, the Senior LPGA at assignment for a nine-hole course Deere Classic, followed in 1964. In
French Lick, Ind., from July 23-26, and Western Amateur south of Indianapolis and designed a the Chicago area, he and son P.B.
at Crooked Stick in Carmel, Ind., from July 27-Aug. 1. layout that crossed a creek 11 times collaborated on Ruffled Feathers in
Illinois’ best amateur and pros clash in the Radix Cup at while Alice grew the bent grass for Lemont, which tightens like a vise
from start to finish.
Home
Oak Park Country Club on June 10, and in the Illinois the greens in their front yard.
Open from Aug. 3-5. It took several years, but Dye was “I think he’s more artist than
And there’s one more. … able to eventually leave the insurance architect,” longtime Crooked Stick Jim
business – not before the company Ferriell once said.
Illini and Wildcats Fans Take Note sent him to a psychiatrist – and make Sadly, the artist paints no more.
Chicago
When the NCAA golf championships were played at Rich course design his calling.
Harvest Farms in 2017, people were astonished by the size Golfers have been calling him Around the Greens
of the gallery following Illinois’ men’s team. They didn’t names ever since, so vexing were Sad to report we’ve also lost long-
win, but they sold tickets, with some 3,500 to 4,000 on some of his designs. Teeth of the Dog. drive champion and teacher Marty
hand when they reached match play. PGA West. The Players Course at TPC Joyce, who died Jan. 16, and Paul
A similarly-sized crowd might make the trek to Sugar Sawgrass. Those are just three of his Fullmer, 85, the former Chicago-
Grove this May 1-3, when Jerry Rich hosts the Big Ten challenging layouts that are now pil- based executive director of the
championships in his backyard playground for the first lars of a legacy that stretches around American Society of Golf Course
time. the world of golf following his death Architects, on Jan. 10. The late Alice
A Full Plate in 2020 Nine of the Big Ten’s 14 schools are within 200 of Alzheimer’s-related illness on Jan. Dye once called Fullmer, “The glue
Has it really been 17 years since the big guys took on miles of Rich Harvest – Wisconsin is 132 miles out, 9 at 94. that held ASGCA together.” Joyce,
Paul Fullmer
Olympia Fields? just 10 more than Illinois’s Champaign campus, with His courses, both original and who battled cancer in recent years,
Yes. Back in 2003 – four years before the iPhone, Northwestern around the corner at 54 miles – but Illinois remodels, dot the Indiana land- was a fixture for years in the White
which is to say, when dinosaurs walked the earth – Jim figures to be the big draw. scape. Notable creations include Pines Golf Dome, and was a long- As the regular range barely holds
Furyk survived a wacky U.S. Open on Olympia’s famed Under Mike Small, the Fighting Illini have won the Crooked Stick in Carmel, his French time assistant coach of Fenwick High low-handicappers in the titanium
North Course. While scores were low early, he was only last five Big Ten team titles and 10 of the last 11. A con- Lick layout that hosts the Senior School’s boys team. … Speaking age, plans call for setting up a spe-
one of four players under par when his final putt dropped, tinually-changing cast of Illini players has captured seven LPGA Championship, and Brickyard of big hitters, Cog Hill gets back cial range across Archer Ave. from
several holes after a stripper wished him luck on a fairway. of the last nine conference titles outright and shared the Crossing at the Indianapolis Motor in the competition business next Cog on the mammoth field long used
This August 20-23, the BMW Championship, the PGA other two. Speedway. There, rather than use his year with a five-year deal to host a for Western Open parking. It’ll prob-
Tour’s playoff semifinal, rolls in. It’s the first visit for the In other words, the Illini are the team to beat. Don’t trademark railroad ties – a concept stop of the World Long Drive Tour. ably be 400 yards long.
former Western Open to Olympia since 1971, when Bruce be surprised if Tommy Kuhl of downstate Morton, the borrowed from the Scottish layouts he
Crampton triumphed. Jack Nicklaus did so in 1968. And lone Illinois resident on Small’s current squad, draws the studied in the 1960s – he used dis-
in 1920, a century distant, the Western saw Jock Hutchison biggest gallery. carded portions of the concrete track
win at Olympia, when the North Course hadn’t even been Rich Harvest needs volunteers for the weekend. Those walls.
blueprinted and the clubhouse was a two-building set of interested can apply at Rich Harvest’s website (www.rich- North of our border, he found
red-painted plywood. harvestfarms.com) and follow the links. a kindred golf spirit in Herb Kohler,
Given that Justin Thomas scored 25-under 263 on who brought Dye in for the two
Medinah’s theoretically-testing No. 3 Course last August, Pete Dye Left a Legacy courses at Blackwolf Run and then
one can only imagine what the winner will manage on the Had Pete Dye remained a successful insurance salesman two more at Whistling Straits, which Where one great course leads to another
North, which is testing but not as long as No. 3. Members all his life, he will host this year’s Ryder Cup.
already committed to a toughening of both courses will would have been “Pete Dye transcended golf
likely be seeing red, numbers and otherwise. well off, probably course design as we know it today,”
The cause is tremendous, benefitting the Evans miserable, and Kohler said. “I am honored to have
Scholars Foundation’s caddies-to-college program. That’s golf would have had the extraordinary opportunity to
also the beneficiary of the area’s first tournament, the been the poorer. be a business colleague and person-
Evans Scholars Invitational, May 21-24 at The Glen Club Dye, sup- al friend of both Pete and Alice the
in Glenview on the Korn Ferry Tour. ported by wife last 30 years.
Hundreds of charities benefit from the biggest thing in Alice, decided “While Pete designed to torment
the Quad Cities, the John Deere Classic, which raised over he wanted to the most accomplished professional, It’s close to home... And, with 13 incredible courses at
$13 million in 2019. This year’s 50th playing, set for July be a golf course his forward tees allowed the most one unforgettable destination, it’s a golfing experience
9-12 at TPC Deere Run, should be special. Deane Beman, architect, never inexperienced to play. I loved this
who won the first two before becoming commissioner of the mind that at simple man and artist extraordinaire you’ll treasure. You’ll spend less time traveling and more
PGA Tour, might be on hand to smack the first Spalding. least once when who built Kohler, without a computer, time doing what you love to do... Playing tons of golf.
Biggest of all this season on the pro side is the Ryder he was course four of America’s top-rated public Come PLAY and STAY with us. Book your Golf Trail
Cup, two hours north of Chicago at Whistling Straits from chairman at the courses that have hosted six of golf’s Getaway today. Visit GolfAtLakeOfTheOzarks.com.
Sept. 25-27. Thank Jack Nicklaus for the suggestion in Country Club majors.”
the mid-1970s to open the British Isles side to continental of Indianapolis, In Illinois, Dye was less active,
Europe, which brought in Seve Ballesteros and made an he managed to though one of his first layouts was
biennial walkover the most compelling competition in golf. kill most of the the par-3 Yorktown Golf Course
There’s more a stone’s throw from the Loop, including greens. He some- in downstate Shiloh. Oakwood in
the Senior PGA Championship at Harbor Shores in Benton how wangled an Coal Valley, an early site of the John
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Ravisloe Even through changing times, all of the courses mentioned
above – just a few miles apart – share century-old lega-
cies in common. And while all five can still be reached
by rail, Ravisloe was the first to shake free of its status as
The a members-only property and is open to the public. In
Modern 2009, the 160-acre property was purchased by prominent
veterinary surgeon Dr. Claude Gendreau, who proceeded
Throwback to invest millions to restore both the clubhouse and the
course back to their original elegance.
Course The original course is believed to have been designed
by James Foulis, winner of the second U.S. Open in 1896.
By Neal Kotlarek William Watson, head professional Robert White, and
Aleck Bauer revised the layout in the early teens, when
an adjacent parcel was acquired, and master architect
In his celebrated poem, Carl Donald Ross did a thorough revision through annual visits
Sandburg extolled the virtues of from 1917 to 1919.
the city of Chicago, referencing its In 2002, local architect David Esler performed a $1
role as hog butcher to the world, tool million renovation on the course, focusing on restoring
maker, stacker of wheat and player the sand bunkers to Ross’s original specifications.
with railroads. Perhaps Sandburg Along with improving the grounds and investing heav-
was referencing the city’s love for ily in conditioning the course to country club standards,
golf when he wrote about the awe- the new owner made major improvements to the club’s
some amount of “shoveling, planning, majestic Spanish Mission-style clubhouse (designed by
building, breaking and rebuilding” George Nimmons, who also designed the Olympia Fields
that some of A merica’s premier clubhouse) to restore its opulence. Every part of the build-
golf architects were undertaking in ing was renovated, including the ballroom, the bar and
Chicago’s suburbs at the time. By the grill, and the auxiliary rooms to their original Gilded Age
turn of the 20th century, businessmen splendor. Indeed, this season one of these rooms is home
and women had fallen madly in love to indoor golf simulators sponsored by GolfNow.
with the game as clubs scrambled to “The primary goal of the clubhouse renovation was
accommodate demand. to provide our guests with the same experience that the
In fact, players were using rail- country club members had,” director of golf Bob Carpenter
roads to choo-choo from downtown said in a mid-January interview. “There is a lot of history in
to the south side by the time the the clubhouse, and we wanted to preserve everything we
great poet’s work was published in could as both a historical archive and to honor the club’s
1916. Follow the Illinois Central rail great legacy.”
line’s path and you locate some of
the nation’s premier original clubs,
including Calumet, Flossmoor, Idlewild,
Olympia Fields and Ravisloe. As cars
were not yet fashionable 100 years
ago when these clubs opened, the
standard practice to entertain clients
was to hop aboard the southbound
and arrive at the first tee an hour or
The 17th green is typical of the Donald Ross look as recreated by David
so later. Esler, with a grass-faced bunker and a flat sand base (Photo: Tim Cronin)
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Over its illustrious history, prominent The 490-yard third hole may seem the crossing fairway and greenside
players including Harry Vardon and like an easy par 5 from the tee, but the bunkers on this tough par 5.
Chick Evans visited the club regularly. hole gets more difficult the closer you The course finishes with a surpris-
Club members included A-listers of get to the flagstick. The pushed-up ingly short par 4. At 355 yards, the hole
Chicago society. Even the club’s first green is protected by massive sand allows players a chance to redeem
pro was a larger than life figure. Born in bunkers, and the putting surface itself their rounds with a possible birdie.
St. Andrews, Scotland, the afore-men- has three tiers. Wind up on the wrong Avoid the deep bunkers protecting
tioned Robert White served the club one and you can expect a very difficult this small-sized putting surface.
from 1902 to 1914. During that time, he two-putt. Ranked by Golfweek as the No. 1
founded the long-forgotten Western The sixth hole plays to a short 135 classic (pre-1960) public golf course
Professional Golfers’ Association, yards. Built by any other designer, the in all of Illinois and the No. 11 overall
and shortly after moving to New York, par 3 would seemingly be a juicy birdie public course, Ravisloe celebrates the
became the first president of the opportunity. In fact, yawning bunkers work of Donald Ross and provides a
PGA of America. White also studied short left and right of a small, rolling fun, stress-free round of golf due to
course design and agronomy at the green make this one of the toughest the limited number of water hazards
University of Wisconsin from 1902 to pars on the front nine. across the property.
1913. Historians argue that White’s The best stretch of holes at Ravisloe Every round at Ravisloe should
specific interest at school might have are the 11th to 16th. While the front nine end with a tour of the renovated club-
made him American golf’s first turf with three par 3s serves up multiple house and a stop at the clubhouse bar
student and perhaps even the country’s birdie opportunities, this grouping and grill. Golfers making a day out of
first professional superintendent. serves up a long par 3, three long the trip to Ravisloe are encouraged
Step onto the first tee and you feel par 4s and a long par 5 to go with a to enjoy dinner at the course’s sister
as if you’ve taken two steps back into mid-length par 3. The 226-yard 11th property, the 18-room La Banque
golf architecture’s Golden Age. A wide hole is far and away the toughest par Hotel and La Voute Bistro Bar located
fairway allows players to swing from 3 on the course. Adding to the hole’s a few minutes away from the club.
their heels yet be vigilant of a bunker difficulty is a bunker just to the left of Located in downtown Homewood and
poking out into the fairway 250 yards the green which snags all tee shots established in 2015, the bistro serves
away. Once you reach your ball, marvel steered away from the bunker short French-inspired farm-to-table cuisine.
at the devious grass embankment Ross and just right of the green. Specialties include beef au poivre and
placed at the back end of the hazard to While players might not like their a killer double cut bone-in pork rack.
force players to choose a lofted club score on the 550-yard 13th hole, they “On occasion,” Carpenter said,
to evacuate. should enjoy the classic beauty of “we are stopped by players who used
to caddie at this club or are former
members. To a person, they tell us that
they appreciate the work we’ve done
to restore these beautiful grounds to
the way they remember them back in
the glory days of the club.”
The club’s long heritage within the
community is recognized with special
rates and discounts for seniors each
Tuesday during the season.
While time marches on, Ravisloe
Country Club has found the secret for-
mula to revitalize one of Chicagoland’s
premier golf experiences. Were he
alive today, Donald Ross would most
assuredly be proud and fascinated
by the efforts taken to bring a country
club experience to public golfers from
The Ravisloe monogram is carved into a hedge on the far side of the pond on the across Chicagoland.
seventh hole, a touch that goes back to its private club days. (Photo: Tim Cronin)
The fifth green is guarded rigorously by bunkering featuring Donald Ross’ distinctive grass faces, in this case
following David Esler’s restoration, hiding much of the putting surface from the fairway. (Photo: Tim Cronin)
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Slick Rock Hole 12
W hile I strongly doubt I will ever
discover a diamond or an emerald
the brothers began construction
of condominiums, a yacht club, a
mine over my lifetime, I am delighted marina, stables and even a light-
to report unearthing a gem of a house. Logic dictated homeowners
golf destination just a few months would enjoy other recreational
ago. Hidden in plain sight about options, so the Hurds contracted
an hour’s drive west of Austin, Tex., with Robert Trent Jones Sr. to design
Horseshoe Bay Resort has spent an 18-hole championship course
decades under the radar as a real named Slick Rock, after the area’s
estate development featuring a wide sandstone surface.
variety of amenities. All throughout Over the ensuing 15 years,
Head for
its 50-year history, however, the that course was complemented by
property continued to expand its two others designed by Jones: Ram
scope with golf courses built by Rock and Apple Rock. In 2012,
master designers Robert Trent Jones the stunning 18-hole Summit Rock
Sr. and Jack Nicklaus. Today, the was designed by PGA Tour legend Ram Rock Hole 4
the Hill
resort features four championship Jack Nicklaus specifically for use
courses, an 80,000-square-foot by club members.
practice and instruction center, 385 “It’s a remarkable story,” said
rooms, suites and villas, a marina, director of golf Anthony Holder in
Country
and an elegant spa. a January interview. “What really
The story surrounding the resort impresses me is how both Robert
is as fascinating as the property. Trent Jones Sr. and Jack Nicklaus
Brothers Norman and Wayne used the property’s natural assets to
Hurd saw the potential of a real build these courses. The Texas Hill
estate development built along the Country serves up a breathtaking
shores of a 23-mile-long lake near landscape of steep hills, dales,
the city of Marble Falls. In 1970, boulders, prickly pear cactus,
Horseshoe Bay Resort
Wayne purchased the Lupton Ranch wildflowers, ash junipers, and
for $2 million and conferred with live oaks. Trent Jones was a man
his brother on what to name the ahead of his time as he designed
is a real property. As the lake had been
drained by the Colorado River
his courses in the 1970s and ‘80s
incorporating all of these natural Slick Rock Hole 9
stay-and-play
Authority during construction of a features into his courses. Nicklaus
power plant, the brothers strolled echoed that same philosophy on
across the dry lake as they surveyed the Summit Course.”
destination the property. Wayne stumbled
across a rusty horseshoe stuck in
the caked mud and the brothers
The drive from the Austin airport
to the resort reminds guests that
they are a long way from Aurora
agreed that their discovery was a (either the Illinois or the Colorado
sign from above. And so began versions). The rugged landscape
By Neal Kotlarek the legend of Horseshoe Bay. teems with rocks, stones, and
Once the power plant was native vegetation. Lyndon Baines
built and the lake was restored, Johnson, the nation’s 36th president,
Ram Rock Hole 6
16 GOLFChicagoMagazine.com Golf Show 2020 17
was born in the Hill Country in community and thrives with boating, years, the resort underwent a $70 The highlight of the Slick Rock across – scenic Lake LBJ. Bring out more large bunkers greenside. mental skills. His system takes available exclusively at the Yacht
Stonewall. Much of his personal water skiing, and fishing. million upgrade that encompassed course is the photogenic 14th your cellphone camera on the tenth The 422-yard third is followed by inspiration from yoga positions, Club. Once you’ve taken your first
and political life was shaped by The lakeside resort was built in room remodeling, grounds renova- hole. Called the Million Dollar tee to memorialize a stunning view a daunting 193-yard par 3 over meditation, and even music tempos. bite of this delicacy that celebrates
the region, which is prone to long 1971, almost immediately after the tions, a glass-enclosed bar with a hole due to both its beauty and of the lake and the tree-lined hillside. water. If you finish this sequence at Along with great golf, the resort Texas cuisine, you will never want
stretches of dry conditions and hot sprawling 7,000-acre development 360-degree view of the property the work it took to construct, the The par-5 10th is followed by the or around par, a second career as features outstanding and diverse your lobster served differently.
summers. The reservoir upon which community was founded. Over the and a 9,000-square-foot pavilion par 4 begins from an elevated only-slightly-less-dramatic par-5 11th. a member of the Champions Tour dining options. Enjoy hand-crafted Golfers are invited to discover
Horseshoe Bay Resort rests is named years, the amenities offered by the for parties and events. tee above a wide river valley that The tee of the 179-yard par-3 12th player may be in your future. cocktails and scrumptious bar food at their own diamond in the rough (and
Lake LBJ both to honor his heritage resort have expanded to include All three of the Trent Jones- is home to rare Guadalupe river hovers just above a stretch of the lake No review of golf at Horseshoe the Whitewater 360 Waterfall Club in the fairways) with an extended
and to recognize his work to enact swimming pools, a business conference designed golf courses at the resort bass. Positioned above the far and aims toward a large elevated Bay Resort is complete without a and the Slick Rock Grill & Bar. No visit visit to Horseshoe Bay Resort.
the Rural Electrification Act which center, outdoor reception areas, and have received upgrades. “Each of bank of the river is a multi-tiered green protected by three massive, reference to the aforementioned to the resort is complete without the www.hsbresort.com
allowed the Hill Country and other even an elaborate 18-hole putting the three courses is distinct from waterfall which must be overcome distinctly Trent Jones-designed sand Summit Rock which is exclusive unforgettable Chicken Fried Lobster 877.611.0112
isolated farm communities across course complete with natural grass one another,” said Holder. “Each to reach a generous landing area bunkers. Escape with a par on this (with limited guest access) to club
the country to subsist. The lake is fairways, waterfalls, rose gardens was built on unique parcels of framed by sand bunkers to the left hole and you will have a story to members. Provided a palette of
the epicenter of the Horseshoe Bay and a trail. Over the past two land which provide different per- and a large tee to the right. No tell over a cold beverage at the 1,600 acres of spectacular land-
spectives of the Hill Country. All matter where your tee shot lands, 19th hole. scape, Nicklaus was obviously in
of them feature dramatic elevation enjoy the cart ride to the fairway If your schedule allows, save the a giddy mood when he designed
changes and great views. Returning as the pathway somehow bisects Ram Rock course for last, as you will this course with some fun short par
guests will notice how the $7.5 the waterfall. need your best game to challenge 4s and a few long and challeng-
million renovations invested in the The 6,999-yard Apple Rock this par-71 layout, considered one of ing par 5s. The view from atop
courses have included improved course spans 147 acres and is tout- the toughest courses across the state. the world on No. 10, a par 5,
conditioning, smoother greens, ed by some observers as the most The course features more than 60 will make even lifetime Chicago
and even new green collars.” scenic in all of Texas. The par-72 bunkers, granite outcroppings, blind residents consider a move to the
Ranked among the top 25 layout begins in high, rocky terrain tee shots and a formidable number Texas Hill Country.
courses in Texas by The Dallas and finishes along the shoreline of streams and even rock gardens. No visit to Horseshoe Bay
Morning News, the 6,867-yard of Lake LBJ. The course was rated If your goal is to maintain your Resort is complete without a lesson
Slick Rock course was built over 170 among the best new courses in handicap index on Ram Rock, you or stretching exercise from director
acres and was renovated in 2016 America by Golf Digest when it must somehow survive the first four of golf instruction Bobby Steiner.
with the assistance of the Robert opened in 1985 and has played holes, which flow across dramatic A syndicated columnist and author
Trent Jones II team. The course, host to the Texas State Open. hills and dales. Following a 414- of three books on golf, Steiner is
containing over 70 bunkers and The highlight of the Apple Rock yard opening hole, which plays as nice a guy as he is a teacher.
12 water hazards, has a number course is actually the trio of holes shorter due to the descent into Over his years as a professional,
of distinct features which include 10 through 12, taking players from a valley, the 488-yard second Steiner has developed a unique
Texas granite outcroppings, pampas the top of the Horseshoe Bay Resort includes stands of mature trees, perspective on how players can
grass, and Eldarica pine trees. property and down into – and even a vast fairway bunker, and three maximize both their physical and
Slick Rock Hole 14 Whitewater Putting Course
Cap Rock Clubhouse Apple Rock Hole 10
18 GOLFChicagoMagazine.com Golf Show 2020 19Welcome to the Show
By Tim Cronin
An interesting thing happened last year at the Tinley Park
Convention Center. People showed up on the weekend of the
Tinley Park Golf Show. For days before, the phones rang off the
hook with golfers wondering when the show would take place.
That’s an audience eager to be served.
There was no Golf Expo last year, but now it’s back, under
new management – that of the convention center itself. The
same bright, airy room and many of the same faces manning
the booths, eager to talk golf – and perhaps, to sell you a club
or three.
If you picked up this issue on Feb. 7-9, you picked it up at
the reborn Tinley Park Golf Show, run by the center itself.
“By popular demand,” said center managing director Daniel
Fitzgerald. “There were so many disappointed folks last year.”
They should be smiling this year. Fitzgerald brought in
Brad Grey of Silver Lake Golf Course – a sponsor of the first
show – to help run the three-day festival of golf and help bring
back the exhibitors that filled the hall for seven years the first
time around.
At press time, the Demo area was expected to feature
representatives from Wilson, Tour Edge, Callaway, Cleveland,
Cobra, and Mizuno, all major players in the game, with the
new equipment introduced at January’s PGA Merchandise
Show expected to be there for hands-on tryouts.
There will be more than 50 exhibitors in all, including
apparel manufacturers, over a dozen courses near and far, a
number of area golf shops bringing their best and their cash
registers to the floor, and something for kids as well, with
First Tee of Greater Chicago setting up a youth golf area. The
WGA’s BMW Championship, being played at Olympia Fields
in August, will sponsor the Longest Putt competition. And big
hitters can participate in the Long Drive competition – at a
simulator – in the Demo area.
Parking is free and the admittance fee isn’t much more,
$5 on Friday and $10 on Saturday and Sunday. The show runs
from noon to 8 p.m. on Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, and
11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.
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