![]() ![]() Incredibly, this dynamic design duo did so through the movement of just 4,000 cubic yards of material and on a budget of $1.2 million. Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw provided for a continuous range / diversity of holes that call upon shotmaking challenges that can vary in the same manner as the winds that can easily whip across the property. There is no hole or even series of holes that stand far and away above the others. Sand Hills is about the total experience. The diversity of the putting slopes is quite astonishing, as is the variety of the actual green locales, whether they be pitched in hollows, set atop plateau or built beside exposed sand dunes.” You will need to be either an extremely good golfer or a very lucky one to avoid the crater-like bunkers at Sand Hills Golf Club.ĭarius Oliver had no doubt about the importance of Sand Hills his book Planet Golf USA, calling it “arguably the most important American golf course since Augusta National.” The author continued: “Its opening not only placed this remote and seemingly desolate region firmly on the golfing radar, but it almost single-handedly led to a rebirth in classic golf architecture in this country.Īlthough winds can whip through these Nebraska plains with great force, they don’t come from a prevailing direction, so the designers were careful to ensure their holes were playable under all conditions.įairways are sensibly spacious, while the target areas are mostly open to encourage chase-in approach shots. With wide, generous fairways that wind their way beside huge dunes, Sand Hills is a big course on a big scale and it’s tempting to open your shoulders. Why? Because Sand Hills is closed for eight months each year… overplayed it is certainly not. Sand Hills has only a few lucky members, and surely each and every one of them must belong to another golf club. And, when Sand Hills opened for play in 1995, they must have been quietly delighted with their achievement. The "Golden Age of Architecture" inspired Ben Crenshaw and Bill Coore to set up together sharing the philosophy that traditional, strategic golf is the most rewarding. But make no mistake, they discovered the best possible routing and each and every hole at Sand Hills is very special indeed. ![]() One hundred golf holes might easily have been laid out on this amazingly natural piece of land, but Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw settled on just eighteen. Sand Hills Golf Club is a club to respect and those in the know admire their non-commerciality, which is a welcome break from tradition in these days of the perennial money-go-round. The Sandhills region of Nebraska is a huge meadow, which extends to some 20,000 square miles but amidst the cowboys and the grazing cattle, lies a magnificent sandy tract of golfing ground, which is otherwise known as Sand Hills Golf Club. ![]()
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