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bentgrass should produce quicker green
speeds and require less chemicals, fungicides
and water, the latter by 25%-40%.
course came along-Rochester Golf &
Country Club.
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Rochester G&CC was born with pedigree
and status. It lay on 100 acres leased
by two Mayo Clinic physicians, who
hired Red Wing Golf Club professional
Harry Turpie, a native of St. Andrews,
Scotland, to design a nine-hole course.
In 1927, the course expanded to 18 holes,
designed by famed golf architect A.W.
Tillinghast.
Rochester G&CC's 18-hole layout was
mostly open, yet it presented a challenge
largely via Tillinghast's strategic
bunkering. Noted golf writer Virginia
Safford called the course " tougher than
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Interlachen. " Yet an extreme makeover
lay ahead.
In
the early 1930s,
30,000
" It's a financial savings, yes, " Hauser says,
" but it's good for the environment, too. "
pine
trees were transplanted onto the playing
grounds. Fully grown, the soaring
conifers were sirens of danger.
That wooded iteration lasted for the
better part of a century, until 2018 when
the club underwent a restoration, headed
by noted architects Brian Slawnik and
Tom Doak. The intent was to return the
course to its pre-1930s " Tillie " state, with
wider fairways and larger greens.
Heading into 2024, fairways
and
greens have been regrassed. Grounds
superintendent TJ Hauser said in January
that he hopes the course will be ready for
play by Memorial Day and that the new
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Rochester's next golf course was another
groundbreaker. In 1925, work began on
an 18-hole layout just south of downtown.
Memorial Field municipal, now known
as Soldiers Field, opened that August.
Still in operation today, it is tree-lined
and relatively short (5,769 yards, tops)-a
classic parkland course.
Ginny Anderson, a retired IBM worker
who plays in a Rochester municipal women's
league, finds Soldiers Field attractive
because it is relatively short and
walkable and, with its proximity to the
Mayo Clinic and its regional and internamngolf.org
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