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Troon
North Golf Club’s Pinnacle Course to Reopen
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October 5th Following
Four-Month Enhancement Project
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Scottsdale,
AZ – October 2018 / Newsmaker Alert / Troon
North Golf Club’s award-winning Pinnacle Course will reopen for daily-fee
play on Friday, October 5th following a four-month enhancement project.
Located in Scottsdale, Ariz., Troon North features two 18-hole Tom Weiskopf-designed
golf courses – Pinnacle and Monument.
Pinnacle
Course enhancements included updating green complexes to their original
shape, size and contours by utilizing GPS coordinates gathered from Weiskopf’s
original design. In addition, greens were resurfaced with creeping A4 bent
grass and collars were resurfaced with TifGrand semi-dwarf Bermuda grass.
Bunker renovations included updating the drainage in all greenside and
fairway bunkers, new bunker liners and new Pioneer bunker sand. Troon’s
Vice President of Golf Course Development Ron Despain oversaw the project
and work was performed by the club’s agronomy team led by Senior Agronomist
Brad Anderson.
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The
summer 2018 enhancements to the Pinnacle Course follow a similar project
conducted during the summer of 2017 on Troon North’s Monument Course. The
course renovations over the last two summers were the first major changes
to the award-winning property since a 2007 renovation, reconfiguration
and rerouting. In 2007, under Weiskopf’s direction, the 36-hole facility
was reconfigured by blending the two courses together and changing the
sequence in which the holes were played.
“The
course enhancements made over the past two summers have improved two already
incredible golf courses in Monument and Pinnacle,” said Tim Schantz, president,
Troon. “Hats off to Ron Despain and the agronomy team at Troon North on
a job well done. Moving forward we’ll continue to refine and reinvest in
our flagship facility to keep it atop the leaderboard of outstanding Arizona
golf properties.”
Troon
North’s Pinnacle and Monument courses are ranked #25 and #58 respectively
on GOLF Magazine’s prestigious ranking of the 2016/2017 “Top 100
Courses You Can Play in the United States.” In addition, GOLF Magazine
named Pinnacle the #1 golf course and Monument the #4 golf course in Arizona
in their ranking of “Best Courses You Can Play in Arizona.” Troon North
is no stranger to awards and accolades as both courses have been recognized
in numerous Top 100 and Best-in-State rankings by GOLF, Golf
Digest and Golfweek since the facility opened in 1990.
About
Troon North Golf Club
Troon
North Golf Club stands as a hallmark of the Scottsdale desert golf experience
with two 18-hole courses stretching through the natural ravines and foothills
in the shadows of Pinnacle Peak. Giant granite boulders lie strewn across
the rugged landscape of Arizona’s Sonoran Desert, where Troon North Golf
Club combines iconic golf with the visual sensation of desert landscape,
providing a standard unmatched in the American Southwest. For more information,
visit www.TroonNorthGolf.com.
About
Troon
Headquartered
in Scottsdale, Ariz., Troon® is
the world’s largest golf management company providing services at more
than 330 locations around the globe, including 280 golf courses at 246
facilities. In addition to golf, Troon specializes in homeowner association
management, private residence clubs, estate management and associated hospitality
venues. Troon’s award-winning food and beverage division operates and manages
more than 150 restaurants located at golf resorts, private clubs, daily
fee golf courses and recreational facilities. With properties located in
35 states and 30 countries, divisions of Troon include Troon Golf, Honours
Golf, Troon Privé
(the private club operating division of Troon), Troon International and
Cliff Drysdale Management. There are currently 60 Troon-affiliated properties
featuring 80 golf courses on national and international “Top 100” rankings.
Troon-affiliated properties include Bayside Resort Golf Club in Selbyville,
Delaware; Kapalua on Maui, Hawaii; Mauna Lani Resort on the Kohala Coast
on Hawaii; Pronghorn in Bend, Oregon; Lofoten Links in Norway; and Mollymook
Golf Club in Australia. For more information, visit www.TroonGolf.com,
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Contact:
Rob
Myers
Troon
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