The Karoo course at Cabot Citrus Farms.
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The brand new 12 months will carry dozens of latest (and newly renovated) programs. However to maintain our expectations sensible, we’ve centered on public-access tasks. Listed below are 9 that we’ve resolved to play.
Poppy Ridge Golf Course
Livermore, Calif.
Opening date: Summer time
Like its sibling, Poppy Hills, in Monterey, Poppy Ridge belongs to the Northern California Golf Affiliation and has lengthy been one of many Bay Space’s higher daily-fee values. However in its unique configuration, the 27-hole facility had awkward stretches, marked by steep elevation adjustments and lengthy hikes between holes. Enter the architect Jay Blasi. In what quantities to a brand new construct, Blasi created a championship 18-hole routing, utilizing selection land from every of the three current nines. The result’s a compelling, walker-friendly course, stitched by way of rolling, vineyard-fringed terrain, about an hour east of San Francisco. Name it a very good worth, vastly improved.
Scarecrow at Gamble Sands
Brewster, Wash.
Opening date: Aug. 1
Returning to work in apple-orchard nation in jap Washington, David McLay Kidd has put the ultimate touches on his second 18-hole course at Gamble Sands. This one occupies a website that McLay Kidd had hoped to make use of greater than a decade in the past for his first course on the resort however couldn’t as a result of energy strains have been in the way in which. With these strains eliminated, an excellent canvas was made prepared for a observe up. Although comparable in spirit to the unique Gamble Sands course (which ranks on GOLF’s record of High 100 Programs within the U.S. You Can Play), with broad touchdown areas and myriad ground-game choices, the brand new structure, Scarecrow, is extra demanding tee to inexperienced — and extra dramatic in its motion and its river-valley views. After restricted sneak-peek play this previous fall, the course is about for an August ribbon chopping.
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Pasatiempo
Santa Cruz, Calif.
Opening date: Now
On the California course the place he selected to make his residence, the Golden Age large Alister Mackenzie foreshadowed components of his later work at Augusta Nationwide, with yawning paw-print bunkers and exhilarating, tilt-a-whirl greens. Now, the architect Jim Urbina has restored these greens to their unique push-up type and rebuilt the bunkers with fashionable building strategies, bringing an excellent course into even brighter gentle. Technically, Pasatiempo violates our timeframe, because it absolutely reopened in December of 2024. However that unveiling was so latest, comparatively few golfers have skilled the freshened-up course.
Outdated Petty at Cabot Highlands
Inverness, Scotland
Opening date: Preview play in the summertime of 2025/grand opening in 2026
Already residence to Fortress Stuart (No. 89 on GOLF’s record of High 100 Programs within the World), Cabot Highlands will quickly have a complement, courtesy of Tom Doak. In collaboration with Clyde Johnson, his on-site undertaking lead, the architect has conjured a routing that turns a stroll right into a scenic tour, with the Moray Firth photobombing within the backdrop and historic Outdated Petty church (the landmark that offers the course its identify) making a cameo alongside the way in which. Although the grand opening is scheduled for 2026, preview play shall be accessible from Aug. 1 to Sept. 30 of this 12 months.
7 Mile Seaside Golf Membership
Hobart, Tasmania
Projected opening: Spring/summer season 2024
If you happen to want a very good excuse to haul your sticks midway around the globe, Mike Clayton, Mike DeVries and Frank Pont have you ever coated. They’re the architects of seven Mile Seaside, on a postcard-ready website beside a sandy stretch of the identical identify, roughly 20 minutes from the Tasmanian capital. Delayed for years by a number of roadblocks, the course has cleared the final of its obstacles and is anticipated to be prepared within the first half of 2025.
Karoo Course, Cabot Citrus Farms
Brooksville, Fla.
Opening date: Jan. 21
A ‘karoo’ is the sound made by sandhill cranes, whose trumpeting echoes across the grounds of this rugged Kyle Franz design within the sand barrens of the Sunshine State. The course is one in all two 18-holers at Cabot Citrus Farms, a new child vacation spot that additionally has a pair of entertaining brief programs. Preview play started on the Karoo 2024, however Jan. 21 marks its official opening — and the grand opening of the resort itself.
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Karsten Creek Golf Membership
Stillwater, Okla.
Hailed for his restorations of such vaunted venues as Oak Hill and Congressional, Andrew Inexperienced was enlisted for a slate of enhancements on the residence course of Oklahoma State. Together with some rerouting, the work consists of new geothermal greens, higher suited to the local weather, and a number of refinements geared toward posing a stouter problem to the elite faculty gamers who get precedence entry to the property. With correct planning — and at a premium — the general public can peg it at Karsten Creek, too. The course ought to be prepared by the beginning of the 2025 season.
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Enamel of the Canine
La Romana, Dominican Republic
Re-grassing, sand-capping, and bunker and inexperienced restoration rank among the many slated upgrades at Pete Dye’s seaside gem within the Caribbean. Jerry Pate’s design agency is dealing with the work, which is scheduled for completion in late 2025.
PGA West Stadium Course
Palm Springs, Calif.
While you tune in to the American Categorical later this month, you’ll be taking a look at a spiffed-up Stadium Course, Pete Dye’s famed desert design, the place the greens have been restored to their unique measurement and form, amongst different enhancements. The just-completed work was a part of a three-year multi-million-dollar undertaking that included upgrades to 2 different Dye tracks at PGA West (the Mountain and the Dunes). The Stadium is the headliner, although, and, two weeks from now, you’ll be able to watch the professionals play it earlier than you are taking it on your self.
