Courses

Palmetto Dunes Oceanfront Resort / Hilton Head Island, SC: George Fazio Course is named South Carolina’s Course of the Year by the S.C. Board of Directors of the National Golf Course Owners Association. All three Palmetto Dunes courses have now received this honor.

Moorland Course / Legends Resort / Myrtle Beach, SC: Named the Myrtle Beach Area Golf Course Owners Association’s Course of the Year.

Forest Dunes Golf Club / Roscommon, MI: Renaissance Golf Design and Michigan native Tom Doak to design a new 18-hole course featuring a reversible routing.

KemperSports: Nine of its properties were featured on Golf Magazine’s Top 100 Courses You Can Play list. The properties are Pacific Dunes, Bandon, OR (No. 1); Bandon Dunes, Bandon, OR (No. 8); Old Macdonald, Bandon, OR (No. 10); Streamsong (Red), Streamsong, FL (No. 12); Bandon Trails, Bandon, OR (No. 13), Streamsong (Blue), Streamsong, FL (No. 16); Chambers Bay, University Place, WA (No. 17); The Prairie Club (Dunes), Valentine, NE (No. 74); and The Glen Club, Glenview, IL (No. 78).

Old American Golf Club / The Colony, TX: To host the 2014 Rod Pampling Classic charity golf tournament, Sept. 29.

KemperSports: Nine of its properties were featured on Golf Magazine’s Top 100 Courses You Can Play list. The properties are Pacific Dunes, Bandon, OR (No. 1); Bandon Dunes, Bandon, OR (No. 8); Old Macdonald, Bandon, OR (No. 10); Streamsong (Red), Streamsong, FL (No. 12); Bandon Trails, Bandon, OR (No. 13), Streamsong (Blue), Streamsong, FL (No. 16); Chambers Bay, University Place, WA (No. 17); The Prairie Club (Dunes), Valentine, NE (No. 74); and The Glen Club, Glenview, IL (No. 78).

Palmetto Hall Plantation Club / Hilton Head Island, SC: Reopens the Robert Cupp Course following a two-month closure to install new Celebration Bermudagrass.

Greater Atlantic City Golf Association: Reports that its members represent six of Golf Magazine’s top 10 in New Jersey for 2014, as well as 10 of the top 15 and 11 of the top 20 on the Courses You Can Play list.

Gary Player Design: Agrees to design and build a family-friendly course at Big Cedar Lodge in Ridgedale, MO.

Gary Player Design: Agrees to design and build a family-friendly course at Big Cedar Lodge in Ridgedale, MO.

Canadian Rockies Golf: Announces that the Alberta province will spend $18 to rebuild the 36-hole Kananaskis Country Golf Course.

Patriots Point Links / Mt. Pleasant, SC: To host the second Mount Pleasant Open, a three-day charity golf tournament open to the public. Proceeds will benefit family members in Mount Pleasant who are battling cancer.

French Lick Resort / French Lick, IN: To host the Legend Tour’s Legends Championship, Aug. 15-17.

KemperSports: Selected to manage Dublin Ranch Golf Course in the East San Francisco Bay region in Dublin, CA.

Renaissance Golf Club / Haverhill, MA: Reports on the three holes-in-one made during the ninth Renaissance Men’s Invitational on July 26. The feat is believed to be a Massachusetts record.

Fry/Straka Global Golf Course Design: Two of its principal-designed courses – Camelback Golf Club in Scottsdale, AZ, and Columbia Country Club, in Columbia, MO – have been recognized in Golf Inc.’s 2014 Renovation of the Year competition.

Big Cedar Lodge / Ridgedale, MO: Top of the Rock and Buffalo Ridge Springs courses, acceding to Yahoo Travel, ranked among the top 10 most searched golf destinations for fathers on Yahoo Search leading up to Father’s Day.

Mansfield National Golf Club in Mansfield, TX: Now offering FootGolf each day after 6 p.m. The course has been sanctioned as an official FootGolf course by the American FootGolf League.

John Fought Design: Reports on the The Country Club of Jackson in Jackson, MS. John Fought Design remodeled the course in 2008 and will host the PGA Tour’s Sanderson Farms Championship, Nov. 3-9.