Michigan Golf Journal September 2019

The new South Course is a Dana Fry and Warren Henderson creation, designed with features to honor the styles of legend C.B. MacDonald, whose masterpieces include the famed Chicago Golf Club (1893), and his protégé Seth Raynor. It’s truly a links course with the wind always a factor, and made to play the ball low and bump and run in the short game area. Its ‘deceptive’ features include huge greens – which average 9,400 square feet each – that are designed with tapered off edges that run balls off into low-lying areas, or worse yet, sand bunkers. The sage old advice of place your ball in the middle of the green and putt to the edges is best put to use on the South Course. Hint : with the firm and fast surface at the South Course, try to land your ball short of the green. Don’t worry, it will run up. Also deceptive is how the overall design incorporates the use of angles and depth of field for illusion – and geometric shaping to make it stand alone – and make it stunning. Scoring well is always about picking the best angles of attack. Every green complex on the South – except for 13 – has at least one square- cut corner, but most have 2-to-4. That’s part of the Arcadia South Course South Course step bunkers on 17 Continues on next page >> 9 September 2019 www.michigangolfjournal.com