Michigan Golf Journal March 2020

Michigan Golf Journal New Course Design Three Sticks Creates Bright New Concept in Course Design By Tom Lang People in the game of golf are trying all sorts of new concepts for growing the game – and one way could be the idea of shrinking the amount of land use. And I don’t mean short courses. We’re talking full length, par 72, 6,600-or-more-yard courses with a practice area too; on less than 70 acres of land – about half the land most 18-hole courses consume. John Zaliagiris has dreamed of being a full-time golf course designer his entire adult life – heck – make that since he was a 10-year-old in Livonia creating new golf courses with crayons on the huge chunks of cardboard that had wrapped his family’s newly-delivered refrigerator. Zaliagiris, now a Grand Blanc resident, has come up with a Patent-Pending design that could have