Seven Canyons Highlight

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• Instructor: Golf Life
• Category: Courses

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Can you imagine playing golf in the Grand Canyon? No, you can't imagine it. But that's kind of what this is. Um, the course kind of meanders through several little canyons that it feeds into. Uh, there is only one road in, 'cause we're in this box canyon here. So that's what I liken it to. It's, it's like playing golf in a national park. We started about two years ago with new ownership and their mission when they came in here was to revitalize the place completely, redo the golf course, redo, refurbish the clubhouse, add new amenities, and really bring this back to what it was meant to be when it opened in 2003. We're calling this our grand reopening. We're not calling this a renovation. We're calling it a restoration as a golf course. This is the first year that we've been fully open from the restoration. When this place opened, Wykoff was so thrilled about it. I mean, this is his, one of his top two courses that he's ever done. A lot of it's the setting right? It his affinity for courses across the pond in Scotland. That, that kind of link style course, that's what he wanted to design here. There's a lot of this course that is really laid on the ground. It's right on the topography of the ground. Uh, there's runoffs on the greens. There's falloffs on fairways. Uh, so, you know, Tom likes to, to have those kind of shot values where you're using gravity to move the ball instead of up in the air. So his original design was that, and we have really kind of done our job of restoring it to that. Horses like this that are kinda laid on the ground, they also tend to drain…