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Tom Doak Creates a Masterpiece in Michigan:
“The Loop” is Golf The Way It Was Meant To Be
When the old Scots took up sticks to knock
stones around a sheep pasture, they didn’t
have modern equipment to move dirt,
build cavernous bunkers or create greens
that would reach supersonic speeds. They
used what God had created on the land
adjoining the sea.
Except for clearing a few pine trees, Tom
Doak has employed the same theory for
his new course
The Loop at Forest Dunes.
While in college, Doak persuaded the
scholars at Cornell to allow him to spend
a year wandering around Scotland to gain
a better perspective of original golf course
design. During his time on the Auld Sod,
he caddied throughout the birthplace of
golf, studied original routings and learned
about golf design from the greenskeepers
and maintenance crews of those classic
old masterpieces.
The ability of several courses to be played
in reverse intrigued him and he filed
that feature away in his memory bank
Tom Doak and Matt Ginella
NWO Golf Links