Michigan Golf Journal July 2019

played in two hours and 25 minutes. If you played two hours and 30 minutes, you were on the clock. That’s how fast we played. That was their natural way to do it. And now, even over there it’s slowed up.” “When I was growing up, I hit it 15 or 20 yards further than the club champion, but you could go out and have a game. He knew the course that I didn’t. More than likely it was a pretty even match. Today, could you imagine Tiger or Brooks Keopka or one of these guys come up here and play your club champion? They hit it a hundred yards by him and would drum them. “I’m not trying to change the game of golf. All I’m trying to do is make it so people can afford it, so the game will grow.” Nicklaus will be in Michigan a few times this year as he designs – at no cost – the new American Dunes Golf Club, on the site of Grand Haven Golf Club . It’s been owned by Maj. Dan Rooney’s family for several years and will become a home base for the Folds of Honor. Nicklaus said that the former tree-lines holes are no more – every tree was removed except those surrounding the perimeter. Rooney wanted the sandy soil near Lake Michigan more exposed and to make a totally open links layout. “People can donate and help raise money for the Michigan Golf Journal An Evening with Jack

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