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Shinnecock Hills Golf Club: This Month's Featured Course

Our current Featured Project is the renovation work completed at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club located in Southampton, New York. Shinnecock Hills will host the 104th U.S. Open (www.usopen.com) in June 2004. The course is one of the most historic clubs in the United States and was a founding member of the USGA in 1894. Since then the club has held seven USGA Championships, most recently the memorable 1995 US Open. The existing golf course has been largely unchanged since William Flynn and Howard Toomey reworked the layout in the late twenties and early thirties. McDonald & Sons was hired to respectfully add back tees on a number of holes and upgrade the current practice facilities for membership play and the upcoming tournament.

McDonald & Sons worked hard along side Mark Michaud, Shinnecock Hills' Golf Course Superintendent and his staff to make these changes in early 2003. The tees that were added to the course were an effort to counterbalance the technology and length of today's game and give the course more flexibility in setup. After the additions by McDonald & Sons and a great deal of work by the golf course staff, the course is ready to host the world's best golfers in what is arguably the toughest golf tournament of the year. The major tasks of this renovation project were:

Constructing new back tees on #3,4,7,8, and 17.

Since Shinnecock Hills is a national treasure every step was taken to make the new tees blend seamlessly into the existing landscape. We constructed the tees with a low profile and surrounded them with existing native grass in a unique sodding process.

Upgrading the Practice Facilities

New Chipping and Putting Greens

The new chipping and putting greens were built to provide realistic practice and to accommodate more players at one time. Utilizing the style and proportions of the course's historic greens we were able to create a short game area that reflects the types of shots seen on and around the greens on the course. We were also able to salvage the sod off two existing putting greens thereby making the new surfaces consistent with the greens on the course.

New Driving Range Tee

Since the existing driving range tee was undersized we increased its width and length to provide the membership and US Open competitors with more grass tee from which to hit.

The 2004 U.S. Open is sure to be an exciting and memorable event and McDonald & Sons' work will play a significant role in the championship. Our knowledge and commitment to quality brought us to Shinnecock Hills, as well as many other Top 100 Courses.

Other McDonald & Sons clients to host tournaments are:

Aronimink Golf Club for the 2003 Senior PGA Championship
Baltimore C.C. (East) for the 2007 Senior Players Championship

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Baltusrol C.C. for the 2004 PGA Championship
Bethpage State Park (Black) for the 2002 U.S. Open
Caves Valley G.C. for the 2002 U.S. Senior Open
Congressional C.C. for the 1997 and 2011 U.S. Open

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Hayfields G.C. for the 2003 through 2006 Constellation Energy Classic
Hobbits Glen G.C. for the 1998 and 1999 Senior State Farm Classic
Merion G.C. for the 2005 U.S. Amateur Championship
Oakland Hills C.C. for the 2008 PGA Championship

past featured course page

Oakmont C.C. for the 2007 U.S. Open (past featured course page)
Olympia Fields C.C. for the 2003 U.S. Open (past featured course page)

Riviera C.C. for the Nissan Open

Quail Hollow Club for the Quail Hollow Championship

Robert Trent Jones G.C. for the 2000 Presidents Cup

Sherwood Country Club for the Chevron World Challenge

Winged Foot G.C. for the 2006 U.S. Open

What will be our next Featured Course?

Oakmont
Country Club:

Oakmont, Pennsylvania

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