JeremyTT

The company I work for is a golf course construction and renovation company.

One of the courses we built is featured in the Golf Magazine 2002 "Top 10 You Can Play" article. We are proud of this, and I just wanted to gloat a bit and share it with all of you. (oh, and I can probably get a deal if we want to organize a little TTs go Golfing dealy!)

<img src="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/golfonline/images/2003/03/redtail_0303.jpg">

Excerpt from the article:

<FONT COLOR="#660000"><B> Red Tail Golf Club </B></font>
<i>Devens, Massachusetts</i>

Talk about incongruity. Not far from Walden Pond, Henry David Thoreau's pastoral retreat, is Fort Devens, a former military base where soldiers have trained for war since 1917. It's easy to find: Drive 35 miles west of Boston, follow Patton (as in General) Road to Bulge (as in Battle) Road, and look for a hilly course marked by long ridges and mature oaks that looks like it was built shortly before World War I. After the base was swept of ordnance and decommissioned, Bay State native Brian Silva was brought in to build a golf course on a site he described as "wicked awesome." While sprinkling vintage design characteristics throughout the layout, including a Redan-style par three, a giant punchbowl green, and a Cape-style hole, Silva, who made more than 100 site visits and also drove the seeding tractor, dropped in modern defenses as well: random bunkering, "up" greens with "down" surrounds, lots of recovery-shot options. Several of the holes play down former oak-lined streets atop army barracks foundations; others skirt sandy wastelands or abandoned gravel pits. Traditional parkland-style holes are balanced by contemporary desert-style creations that would look more at home in Scottsdale than New England. Silva's "Indy 500" ramps tend to funnel the ball to the topsy-turvy greens, and these surfaces are lightly bunkered, but Red Tail, named for a family of hawks that nests here, will rain bombs on the heads of unthinking players. The finish is hair-raising. The par-four 17th plays from a raised tee to an island of turf encased in sand, with old ammo storage units located to the right of the green. Take dead aim or else! The sharply downhill par-five 18th can be reached in two -- if you're willing to play a long shot from a hanging lie over a watery grave that fronts a slim, angled green. Any contingencies? Ornamental bunkers cover an entire hillside at the par-five second hole to accommodate tanks in case the army returns. Other than that, golfers are free to march around and fire away on the most exciting swords-to-plowshares course of the year.

<i>Green fee: $65 to $70. 978-772-3273; <a href="http://www.redtailgolf.net" target="_new">www.redtailgolf.net</a>.</i>

<a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/golfonline/travel/publicbest/2003/top10ycp/">Link to full original article</a>

ArchitecTT

Keep me posted about any efforts to get a TT outing together.

ZGTT

I play at Polo Trace, a very nice track in Delray Beach. Unusual for Florida, there are no homes on the course - except for one hole (10), so it feels very remote. :-)

JeremyTT

We have done a bunch of renovation there.

Every year, we do some renovation work at Gulfstream GC in Del Ray Beach.

We often do work at the Jupiter Island Club.

We are currently bidding a project at The Breakers (we have worked there in the past.)

JeremyTT

Absolutely.

JaminTT

Let me know when the TT golfing outing is I'll have to fly down 8^)

ZGTT

let me know when you come down, we can play a round.

JeremyTT

Will do! ( you can watch my incredibly poor golf skills... embarrasing to say the least!)

JeremyTT

Down? I was talking about Red Tail in Massachusetts.

JamieTT

Or have you already done that?! Because that'd make this crappy golfer very happy.