GOLF
“We now have a magnificent
cornerstone to accompany our
championship golf courses that
will serve as a point of pride for
our PGA members, guests and
golfers from around the world
to enjoy.
” — Jimmy Terry, general manager
ways on the Tom Fazio design were regrassed with Celebration,
a hybrid Bermuda strain. Celebration has a striking
blue-green look to it and recovers quickly from divots.
The sand traps (bunkers) faces were resodded with Empire
Soysia, a slower growing grass that requires less mowing.
Four ornamental grasses were planted in the danger zones on
either side of the fairways: Burgundy Fountain, White Fountain,
Dwarf Fakahatchee and Muhlenbergia.
“The whole course has a Scottish look to it and players
say the ball bites when it hits the green,” says Dick Gray,
PGA Golf Club greenskeeper. The Pete Dye Course could
be the next course to be reseeded with Celebration, which is
the next generation DNA from 50-year-old Bermuda grass.
Gray believes that in the future the other two courses will be
reseeded with Celebration.
Every seat in the Nineteen-Sixteen Bar and Grille offers members and their
guests wide views of the finishing hole on the Wanamaker Course. The
name comes from the year a group of businessmen got together to form
the Professional Golfers’ Association of America.
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