The Retreat at Silvies Valley Ranch opens new tee boxes on Hankins course
SENECA, Oregon – – The Retreat at Silvies Valley Ranch announced today the latest addition to its award-winning golf offerings – a new set of tee boxes at the resort’s 18-hole Hankins course.
Called the ‘Goat Tees’ on Hankins, they will lengthen the course by 925 yards, making it the longest course out of the thousands throughout Washington, Oregon and Idaho. The addition of the Goat Tees will increase Hankins’ total distance to 8,000 yards, including the 680-yard par-5 third hole.
The project reunited three native Oregonians: original course designer Dan Hixson, Silvies owner Scott Campbell and Golf Course Superintendent Torin Foster and further enhanced the already great portfolio at Silvies.
“With our high elevation and dry desert air, the ball flies further at Silvies. Pair that with our wide links-style fairways, golfers will now have a new and different challenge like no other in the Northwest to take on,” said Campbell.
Players will follow the same cart path routing on both courses. Rates will be the same on each course no matter which tee box a guest chooses to play from. Both the Cradock and Hankins courses were named among the top-four best new golf courses to open in 2018 by Golf Digest and have been named the Best in Oregon (after Bandon Dunes) ever since
“Silvies has been a part of my life for more than a decade. To have the chance to come back and help add to our initial vision is remarkable,” said Hixson. “This is one of those properties where you really have to come out in-person and then you’ll understand what makes this place a unique experience. Once you make that initial journey, you’re going to want to keep coming back and the addition of these new tee boxes will be one of the many examples why.”
Last summer, Silvies debuted another Hixson brainchild, Claire’s Course, the first 18-hole reversible putting course in the world.
Silvies, a 150,000-acre cattle ranch and eco-resort, features six award-winning golf experiences, a world-class spa, horse trail rides, pistol shooting, ATV tours and a bar with 110 different Scotches. The famous Silvies’ goat caddies will once again be prepared to carry golf clubs, extra balls and tees, refreshments and peanuts for players’ rounds on the McVeigh’s Gauntlet and Chief Egan courses.
For more information on Silvies Valley Ranch or Claire’s Course, visit www.silvies.us.
About The Retreat at Silvies Valley Ranch
The Retreat is a boutique 46 room eco-resort, complete with western chic accommodations, fine dining, horse trail rides, a destination spa, pistol and rifle shooting, ATV adventures, fishing, a small conference center, full-service fitness center, spa, and member owned, luxury eco-cabins. The ranch provides fun, award-winning golf experiences for players of all skill levels, with two reversible 18-hole championship courses – the Hankins and Craddock Courses – McVeigh’s Gauntlet, a stunning 7-hole ridge course, Chief Egan, a mountain meadow 9-hole par-3 course, and Claire’s Courses, two reversible 18-hole putting courses. Merging lodge, guest ranch and spa amenities with an amazing, diverse golf experience, intertwined with an authentic Western cattle and goat ranch, a trip to Silvies Valley Ranch is the ultimate Western luxury vacation. Each and every stay brings you the experience of a lifetime.
Silvies Valley Ranch, founded in 1883, is an ecologically sustainable Western livestock ranch and guest retreat with abundant herds of healthy wildlife, cattle and goats. In many ways, it sets the standard for sustainable ranching and environmental practices, with all cuisine centered around the ranches’ own organic, grass fed beef & chevon (goat). Keeping with its sustainability ethic, the clubhouse and all member owned cabins are completely off the grid, with stand-alone solar and gray water systems, insect control from the residents of over 5,000 bird houses and a predominantly gravity-powered irrigation system. Made up of 150,000 acres of deeded and leased forest lands in and surrounding Silvies Valley, Oregon, the Ranch and Retreat is home to countless wildlife species, mountain meadows, Ponderosa Pine forest, the Silvies River, and 12 other creeks and streams. The experience is “Simply Amazing”.
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