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The Good Golf Course1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Itinerary | Home Keiser and new minimalists like American designer Tom Doak, who conceived Bandon’s Pacific Dunes, and Canadian architect Rod Whitman, who’s designing Cabot Links, are engaged in a rearguard action that is bringing golf back to its roots. In his 1996 book The Confidential Guide to Golf Courses, Doak celebrates courses like Nebraska’s Sand Hills, where architects Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw literally “found” the golf holes, moving almost no land. (Keiser, fittingly, was a founding member.) Even the new breed of push carts and stand bags is giving golfers a chance to reconnect with the turf. And with more and more golf courses gaining certification as Audubon sanctuaries and following tougher pesticide regulations, the game itself is greening up. Cabot Links should open to the public at the start of the 2010 golf season. For John MacIsaac, a local school-board administrator who was instrumental in floating the idea, the opening of the course means more than just a new place to ply his pastime. “I’ll be there before the sun rises, trying to grab that first tee time,” he says. “This course is going to mean a lot to this town, and I want to be there to see a new beginning.” Maybe golf can be good – as it was meant to be. Write to us: letters@enroutemag.net |
