If At First You Don't Succeed Vol. 2
Monday, March 14, 2005 at 09:40 PM Bring the original architect back to fix the mess he made! Well, that might be a bit harsh, but it sounds like Ron Whitten of Golf Digest is fascinated by the trend of architects getting a chance to redo their original butchery (as he should be!). Nicklaus's Loxahatchee, Golf Digest's Best New Private of 1985, sounds like it may be eligible for the 2006 award after Jack recently redid it? Whitten writes:
You surely remember Loxahatchee, with every fairway and green framed by high knobs covered in weeping lovegrass. Some called them mammary mounds; I called them conehead mounds; we can all call them departed now.
"I decided I really didn't like them," Jack said at a press conference recently. "So we tried to modernize it, bring it into the framework of today's game."