Golf Magazine Names Sand Hills the Greatest Course of the Last 50 Years
Since Omaha, Nebraska is Stonehouse Golf’s hometown, we were extremely excited by Golf.com‘s recent naming of Sand Hills as the Greatest Course of the Last 50 Years. The article, written by Joe Passov, is really a great read. We hope that you will check it out. Here are few excerpts from that story:
America’s most celebrated courses — among them, Pine Valley and Pebble Beach — date to the golden age of golf architecture between the World Wars. The best course designed since then lies deep in the wilds of Nebraska.
We also thought it was interesting how Golf.com valued the simplicity and the natural design of Sand Hills.
Currently ranked No. 8 in the U.S. and No. 11 in the world, Sand Hills is a private 1994 creation of architects Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw. Almost as soon as it opened Sand Hills ushered in two trends that have flourished since: minimalist course design, and the Field of Dreams theory, which holds that if you build a truly great golf course, people will come see it, no matter how remote the location.