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Walk past the newly laser-leveled practice range and you’ll discover a re-imagined short game area, which now features a multi-purpose practice bunker. ” Member, and past Club President, Jerry Waletzko has played mature bent grass greens and looks forward to the greens at Old Ranch rolling “like billiard tables. Alternate Tees, Please – We played the member tees (silver), but Waletzko and others like to change it up from time to time and played hybrid tees (a mix of the teeing positions) that allow for some tee shots that provide unique views and, a few cases, more challenging tee shots, such as the through a tunnel of trees over a marsh on No. 3. The day I played, Gretchen took a stroll through the practice putting green on her way to the clubhouse before taking a leisurely swim in the lake shared by the 18th green and the 10th tee.

As John Ashworth has learned many times since taking over management of Goat Hill Park in Oceanside three years ago, renovating and running a golf course is far from child’s play, even when you’re building a kids’ course. You want to get (kids) exposed to the game early, and this is just enough to do it,” Ashworth said, noting the course will be open to kids of all ages, many likely playing the course and its rolling terrain with just a putter. I’ve known Gil for a while and he offered to help years ago if I needed anything, and I finally took him up on that,” Ashworth said. We’re kind of like the little engine that could,” Ashworth said, adding that profits at the course have all been re-invested in course maintenance and maintaining course conditions.

” Bazzel is uniquely positioned to make those decisions in that at one time or another, he’s worked in every equipment category at TaylorMade, but upon announcing Bazzel’s promotion, TaylorMade CEO David Abeles especially lauded Baz’s work in metalwoods. His influence has carried over to Bazzel’s design career in that he’s the audience Bazzel says he has in mind when he’s creating a product. Thanks to advances in technology, the process of product creation has changed drastically during Bazzel’s time at TaylorMade, but the process of gathering ideas remains largely the same, he said. But Bazzel said the product was ultimately a triumph for the culture of TaylorMade, where each product category has a group leader, but Bazzel said that doesn’t limit the staff’s ability to contribute across other product lines.