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Developer
Mike Keiser is responsible
for three of the top golf destinations in
North America
. He has helped revitalize
the golf resort destination concept. His
locations are all about the golf, with little
or no outside entertainment distractions.
Bandon Dunes,
on Oregon’s Pacific
coastline, was his first project and
features four championship courses,
Bandon Dunes, Pacific Dunes, Bandon
Trails and Old MacDonald, as well as,
the par-3 course, Bandon Preserve and
a putting course, The Punchbowl. A fifth
course is scheduled to be built in 2017.
On the opposite side of the North
American Continent,
Cabot Links
has
two courses, Cabot Links and Cabot Cliffs
that sit on steep cliffs above the Atlantic
Ocean in Nova Scotia.
Both
Cabot Links and Cabot Cliffs
are
worthy of the true links designation. They
are located on the rugged coastline of
Cape Breton Nova Scotia, where sandy
soil, firm fairways, and coastal views
embrace golf’s early Scottish roots.
The views from the courses are stunning
and the team of Bill Coore and Ben
Crenshaw did a magnificent job of
maintaining the natural feel and beauty
of the property.
Keiser’s
SandValley
is roughly 120 miles west of Green
Bay. Keiser sent his soil specialist out to the site to find
a reason not to build a golf course on the property
because of its remote location. However, he returned
with the news that the sandy soils were nearly perfect
for golf course construction.
Keiser once again enlisted the services of Coore/
Crenshaw to design a masterpiece in the middle of
Wisconsin that is a must-play for Golfaholics.
NWO Golf Links