THE SCHAUMBURG GOLF CLUB at 401 North Roselle Road is open year round. So you can play the Schaumburg Golf Club indoors on the simulators, and then outdoors in the summer months. But if you are looking for new clubs, this Wednesday afternoon Feb. 15th is a PING fitting day. But you must get an appointment. Call the pro shop at (847)-885-9000 or visit SchaumburgGolf.com. Chandlers Chophouse will be open.
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Tom Pashley with a 2024 U.S. Open pin flag in the pro shop of the Pinehurst Resort main clubhouse.
Golfers on Golf sat down recently for it’s almost every year talk with Pinehurst Resort President Tom Pashley.
Our session is a wide open discussion about Pinehurst, with no topics off the record.
The Home of American Golf under Pashley, has taken on a record number of improvement projects. A list that most properties could never undertake.
The Dedman family who owns the resort, and resorts team under Pashley’s leadership, enters the planning stage of any capital improvement project with a vision of how to get better, be modern. But while preserving the tradition and history of Pinehurst.
Starting in 2011 with the restoration of Pinehurst No. 2, by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw. The Pinehurst Resort has taken on a list of improvements that sounds exhausting, just reading them. So in addition to Course No.2, the improvement list is as follows.
Course No.4 with Gil Hanse. The Creation of the par-3 Cradle Course by Hanse, that has sparked a movement across the country for par-3 golf. A partial relocation of Courses No. 1 and No. 3. The building of the large Thistle Dhu putting green. Improvements to the practice areas. A restoration of Course No.8. The building of the Pinehurst Brew-Pub in the towns old steam powerplant. Renovations to the Carolina Hotel (still on-going), the Holly-Inn, the Manor-Inn and The Magnolia Inn. Buying and restoring of the Dornoch Cottage, which is Donald Ross house.
But their has also been a few tournaments the resort has hosted during the last decade. Including two U.S. Opens (back to back in 2014), a U.S. Amateur (2019) and there are three more U.S. Open’s this decade in the next 6 years. With the 2024 U.S. Open just over 400 days away. The members clubhouse and resorts swimming pool have been renovated. But it doesn’t stop there. Because the building of two of the most talked about halfway house’s located on the par-3 Cradle and between Courses 2 & 4 add to the list. The building of “The Deuce” restaurant in the clubhouse, behind the 18th green of Course No.2. Adding the Jack Nicklaus Pinehurst design to the family and creating Pinehurst No.9.
But there is still more. Because the USGA is coming to town, with Golfhouse Pinehurst. So how about the return of the World Golf Hall of Fame to Pinehurst. But like Pashley says, the building of more overnight accommodations that have views of golf when guests open the drapes in the morning is evolving.
The Mistwood Golf Dome on Rt. 53 in Bolingbrook, open daily until 10 Pm. Home of McWethy’s Sportsbar. Mistwoodgolfdome.com or (630)-739-7600.
So yet it doesn’t stop there. The creation of the Pinehurst 10 project, not a Pinehurst 10 golf course. Tom Doak with lead associate designer Angela Moser are hard at work on the land of the old Pit Golf Course, and some adjacent land the resort purchased in recent years. Doak might be first on the tee here, but Coore and Crenshaw will return because there is enough land for than one golf course.
Pashley says the resort was a little slow in getting back to Coore and Crenshaw on starting the Pinehurst 10 project, and that they are currently booked up for a while- so the resort took advantage of a window Doak had in his schedule to start work on the site.
Pinehurst has become an anchor site for the USGA, which means plenty of championships for years (like almost 30 more) to come to Pinehurst.
Pashley breaks down Pinehurst, it’s growth spurt, how the Pinehurst #10 project could evolve, being a USGA anchor location, and everything else from Putter Boy country, “The Home of American Golf.” Pinehurst.com.
CLICK HERE to hear the full interview with Pinehurst Resort President Tom Pashley.
More from Pinehurst coming up in the days ahead, with a bigger look at the Pinehurst 10 site, that now has Tom Doak on location.