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By Michael Bamberger

Touring a course under

construction is way more

fun than you’d imagine

Michael Bamberger is back on the road for Golf.com,
keeping two club lengths from his sources. This is the third
installment in a five-part Bamberger Briefly series from South
Florida, about golf’s return to action. Reprinted courtesy of
Michael Bamberger and Golf.com.

n [a recent] Tuesday afternoon I had about as construction overlords — the team — were touring a
much fun as I have ever had on a golf course 140-acre sandbox with white PVC pipes with green tops
Owithout hitting a shot or seeing a single shot and red tops to mark future greens and tee boxes. I have
played. My friend Rees Jones, the golf course architect, been to courses under renovation before, but never at such
gave me a tour of one of his father’s best-known courses, a primitive moment. The whole thing just screamed
the Coral Ridge Country Club, which opened in 1954. playtime.
Talk about mid-century modern.
I have never been able to keep track of Rees’s age. I think
The course does not have a blade of grass on it right now. he’s 12.
Rees and a shaper, a general manager and several

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