Highland Course Enters Golf Digest's 2010 Public Course Rankings
Rates 13 On List And Overtakes All Other Courses in Virginia.
The Highland Course at Primland entered the Golf Digest rankings of America's 100 Greatest Public Course for the first time in the April issue as the top new entry of 2010.
The chart shows The Highland Course as number 13 on the list with a total point score of 62.18. The leader was Pebble Beach Golf Links in California at with a score of 68.56.
Primland was also the highest course in Virginia, 11 spots ahead of The Homestead in Hot Springs, VA. Golden Horseshoe in Williamsburg, VA, ranked 50th; Spring Creek in Gordonsville, VA, ranked 70th; Mattaponi Springs in Ruther Glen, VA, rated 72nd; and Kingsmill in Williamsburg, VA, rated 79th.
Voted Golf Digest Best New Public Course in America for 2007 $75 and Over Green Fee
"If your primary motive when playing is for knock-your-socks-off views and scenery that flings you into next week, then you need to get yourself fast to the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia, where a new courses promises to be one of the most spectacular ever built".
Golf World Dec 2007.
"I really think that Primland is one of the best courses I have seen in the last 30 years".
Ewen Murray -
Sky Sports award-winning golf commentator.
"There are only two types of people who play golf. Those who rate Primland as one of the best courses they've ever seen and those who haven't played Primland".
Wade Whitehead, former Patrick Henry High Golf Coach.
"Donald Steel didn't just hit a home run with his immaculate gem. We're talking Grand Slam here golfers".
Randy King, Roanoke Times.
Book Publication
Published to celebrate 150 years of The Open.
"As much a social study and sartorial sideshow as sporting spectacle".
WALKER CUP 2007 ROYAL COUNTY DOWN
Among Steel's key assignments was a reshaping of the finishing hole to make it more in keeping with the celebrated quality of the remainder of the course. Modifications to the 18th were nothing less than dramatic.
Royal and Ancient 2007 Championships.
"A crackerjack of a hole"
Peter Alliss - BBC Television
Remarkably, the changes made, not only to the 18th but to the par 4 17th were virtually seamless less than a year later.
Another recent change saw the 16th hole re-routed but it remains one of the most charming holes of its type in these islands.
Royal and Ancient 2007 Championships.
"The back nine has had its face lifted in recent years-magically"
Golf Digest
The Farm Course of the Greensboro Country Club
ACCOLADES for THE FARM COURSE, GREENSBORO CC
Golf Magazine said, "The renovation work transformed a tired 6,914-yard, par-71 layout into a 7,302-yard par-72 funfest.
Two new par 3s, the 5th and 14th; completely rebullt greens and bunkers; new zoysia grass fairways; and dramatic alterations to seven other holes have infused the farm with the kind of challenge and playability that can compete with any course in the region".
The North Carolina Golf Panel felt the changes had been so extensive that they warranted inclusion in their New Course category.
Their commendation read:
"Steel built five entirely new holes and did significant work on the other 13, including changes in routing and elevation.
The Farm led a diverse list of impressive new courses that were visited by the panelists in 2010".
Old 10th Hole BEFORE redesign in 2009.
Transformed into the new 1st Hole in 2010.
New 18th Hole.
Rory McIlroy, joint winner of the George Henriques Salver at Ganton in 2006.
Presented by Donald Steel when President of the English Golf Union.
Five years later, Rory was US Open Champion.