Admired Golf Clubs Embrace Fun To Draw More Members
Broderick said changing over the Fazio course to two, more-loosened up courses was driven by the club's new proprietors, Brookfield Asset Management, which paid $233 million for the club in 2018. "We're unfastening the top catch of our golf shirt, and we're loosening up the guidelines," she said. "We need individuals to have a good time."
Firestone Country Club in Ohio, an exclusive hangout that was initially the organization club for the tire maker of a similar name, has for some time been known for being a solid trial of golf. It has facilitated many years worth of PGA Tour occasions, most as of late the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational just as the Bridgestone Senior Players Championship. Tiger Woods has won eight PGA Tour occasions at Firestone.
However, more as of late, the club has opened up to restricted stay-and-play choices.
"We generally had three great greens," said Jay Walkinshaw, the club's head supervisor. "As the club and the participation has developed, we understood we had these 86 visitor rooms on property and some overabundance limit. That was the point at which we fired pondering opening up Firestone."
Opening it for semipublic play has gotten income without harming part play. "It's an objective for golf devotees, and presently we're available to them," he said
Indeed, even revered Pinehurst in North Carolina, the host of four United States Opens in the following twenty years, has relaxed up. Its principle fascination, Pinehurst No. 2, considered among the best Donald Ross-planned courses, stays a pursued trial of golf similarly as when Payne Stewart beat Phil Mickelson in the 1999 U.S. Open. However, it currently has the Cradle, a nine-opening course, with music channeled in. What it is absent ever, the Cradle plans to make up for the sake of entertainment.
"There's this topic at Pinehurst of returning to our set of experiences and tweaking it for the cutting edge time, and the Cradle is an incredible model," said Tom Pashley, leader of Pinehurst. "Having music at the Cradle is commended now, however it was an extremely challenging choice. It's additional to the casual air we needed. It's important for the appeal now of playing the Cradle."
Moreover, Pebble Beach Golf Links in California this year changed over an underused standard 3 course into the Hay, a short course planned by Tiger Woods with lengths that remember recorded minutes at Pebble, including an imitation of the course's seventh opening, the short standard 3 encompassed by water.