Golden Age of Architecture
Began work in May, 2013 on the second course at Cabot Links Resort, Cabot Cliffs.
This is a picture of Cabot Links, the first course built at the Resort. It was designed by Rod Whitman. I was onsite for three seasons (2010-2012) assisting with the construction of Cabot Links.
Agar, S.D.
From above the first hole at Sutton Bay Club, I can look out westward across the Missouri River and scan an area about the size of my home state of Connecticut.
So this is the American West. I’ve seen it before in its raw, unmediated form, with native dunes and distant bluffs and scarcely a home or structure to clutter my view. Like the time I made the 55-mile drive through ranch land from North Platte, Neb., to Sand Hills Golf Club in the middle of grass-covered dunes. Or when I headed out to the northwest corner of North Dakota to play golf on bluffs overlooking Lake Sakakawea at The Links of North Dakota at Red Mike Resort. Moor ►
Driving east from Denver last September on my way to the clubs of the Nebraska Sandhills, I’d decided, as many do, to break up the five-plus hour drive across the prairie. I hadn’t given much thought to the fact that my chosen stopover was called Bayside Golf Club. After all, as the ’90s college rock hero Stephen Malkmus once mumbled, “There’s no coast of Nebraska.” But it turns out he was wrong. Moor ►
Don Graham, a class A-1 PGA professional, began his career in the golf business after graduating from Wayne State College (Wayne, NE) in 1991. After working at various courses in Northeast Nebraska, Don became the head pro at Wild Horse Golf Club in the fall of 1999. He lives in Gothenburg, NE with his wife and four kids.
The Wild Horse Golf Club, located in Gothenburg, Nebraska is on the edge. It is on the northwest edge of a tiny Union Pacific RR whistle stop village; on the southeast edge of the vast sand hills territory of western Nebraska; and on the edge of golf architecture greatness compared and related to its neighboring highly acclaimed sister course, the Sand Hills Golf Club up the road in Mullen, Nebraska. Moor ►
A Kansas native, Dave Axland is a graduate of Kansas State Universitys turf grass management program. He began his career in golf course design and construction working under Bill Coore at Kings Crossing in Corpus Christi, TX during the mid 1980s. Since then, Axland has continued to work with Coore and his design partner, Ben Crenshaw, on a number of projects, including Kapaluas Plantation course in Hawaii, Chechessee Creek Club in South Carolina, Friars Head on Long Island, New York, and Old Sandwich, presently under construction near Plymouth, Mass. Axland and his design partner, Dan Proctor, have designed and constructed three golf courses of their own at Delaware Springs in Burnet, Texas, Wild Horse in Gothenburg, Nebraska, and Bayside in Ogalalla, Nebraska. Moor ►
by Derek Duncan
Dan Proctor and business partner Dave Axland operate a small golf course design-build firm called BunkerHill Golf, Inc. They’re better known throughout the industry, however, for being the lead construction and shaping specialists on some of Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw’s best-known courses, including Sand Hills in Mullen, Nebraska, as well as the creators of one of the most highly rated modern American courses, Wild Horse Golf Clubin Gothenburg, Nebraska. Moor ►
