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Adidas Golf is launching its Ultimate365+ Shorts, and in conjunction has signed late PGA Tour player Forrest Fezler to an NIL deal.
During the 1983 U.S. Open at Oakmont, Fezler stepped into a portable restroom before the 72nd hole and changed out of his slacks into shorts
First Four In:
Bandon Dunes
Ballyneal
Pinehurst #2
Pebble Beach
First Four Out:
Sheep Ranch
Kiawah Ocean Course
Streamsong Black
Monterey Peninsula Shore
Often on my mind:
The Keep
Tobacco Road
Cabot Citrus Karoo
Tree Farm
Streamsong Blue
Bandon Trails
Mid Pines
Pinehurst #4
What is your Mount Rushmore of courses that you’ve played? I’ll go first:
Omaha Country Club
Davenport Country Club
Superstition Mountain Golf & Country Club
Des Moines Golf & Country Club
These two renderings of a potential "reimagined" East Potomac Park appear in a fundraising document distributed by the new "National Garden of American Heroes Foundation."
It's unclear to what degree these (very AI-looking) images represent Tom Fazio's actual plans for the golf course, but I think they reveal some important things about the Trump administration's intentions at East Potomac:
1) The new "championship" golf course would take up most of the island. This would mean losing the perimeter road and bike path, the open space at the southern tip of the island, and perhaps even the famous cherry blossom trees, which feature prominently in an annual festival. These non-golf resources at East Potomac Park are used heavily by D.C. residents.
2) Building a bigger course would also mean reducing the number of available golf holes at the facility, likely from 36 to 18, as well as eliminating a historic, recently restored mini-golf course. Inevitably, this would make golf in D.C. less accessible, especially to beginning golfers.
3) Green fees for East Potomac's Blue Course currently top out at $48. There's no way the number would stay there post-reno.
4) The whole nouveau-riche, water-feature-centric aesthetic shown in the renderings is very much in line with Fazio's past work, but not at all representative of East Potomac's historical character and purpose.
5) The administration and the President himself have been open about their hopes to bring a major championship or Ryder Cup to the renovated East Potomac. I think it would be tremendously difficult to stage a tournament of that scale on this island, even after the reno. It does not appear to me that there's enough room.