Nathan Crace, ASGCA, PLA

Golf architect, #HailState alum/dad/husband, author ➡️ Hoosier, @lipoutspodcast host, Pilot in “Invisible World” (🎥 48:43)

[Nathan Crace, ASGCA, PLA @lipouts]

SOUND ON! 🔊 “In 2013, Congress forced the DoD to close a secret Navy research program and, in doing so, let loose America’s darkest secret in its biggest city...” Today’s the day! My thriller VINCENT VINO is now available from Moonbay Media! ➡️ https://t.co/w2wUKylQRk

[Nathan Crace, ASGCA, PLA @lipouts]

"Zoysia! Get your ice cold zoysia here!"

The Stadium Zoysia for the first fairways at False River has arrived in refrigerated trucks. Work continues & bunkers are about to be finished in preparation for sprigging as we get closer to wrapping the project and opening this Fall!

[Jamie Kennedy @jamierkennedy]

This proximity of courses is wild.

Three of these tracks are top 50 in the US.

[Nathan Crace, ASGCA, PLA @lipouts]

I bid you good day, sir. Good day!

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Only a few holes of bunker work left to go on my renovation of Olympia Hills near San Antonio. @Billy_Bunker going in with @turfmaterials Premier Play sand & the look of the course is transformational. Irrigation is going quickly too! Oddly, there are a LOT of deer on this course

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This could explain why half the people on my flight into San Antonio yesterday were Knicks fans. 🤔

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Euphemism in the wild...

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Sodding lake banks at False River yesterday. Also repainting bunker lines after all of the recent rains--with Better @Billy_Bunker and sand installation beginning next week. Zoysia sod will start on fairways/tees soon! Plus two locals checking out the progress... 🐊

[Nathan Crace, ASGCA, PLA @lipouts]

Imagine saving and planning for a dream trip to @TheHomeofGolf, flying to the other side of the Atlantic, being ex tied for the big day and when you get there, Mother Nature says "Not so fast!"

[Golfer Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿⛳ @GolferScotland]

A friend just posted these photos of St Andrews Old Course ⛈️🌧️ whilst having a coffee and staying dry in New Club Clubhouse

[Nathan Crace, ASGCA, PLA @lipouts]

Oak Knoll is a fun classic style course (with beautiful live oaks) built in 1923 in Hammond, LA. We've been working this summer to enlarge the smaller greens (<3,000 sf), restore the fun contours, & add more pins. Testing contours today and @PlatinumTE starts going down soon!

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Strong contender for best sign at a golf course maintenance facility ⬇️

[Vintage Maps @vintagemapstore]

The SE corner of Montana is closer to Texas than it is to the NW corner of Montana.

[Nathan Crace, ASGCA, PLA @lipouts]

Sad news...

[Flushing It @flushingitgolf]

On Friday, Sports Illustrated released their entire golf crew. That sucks.
Not only because incredibly talented and experienced journalists like Bob Harig are now (temporarily) out of work. But one of the largest sports media empires is cutting virtually their entire coverage of the sport we all love.

Storytelling is the greatest asset a sport has to drive engagement and fan interest. If there are less reporters at the events and fans have to rely on questions from tour employees, media who are financially linked to the tour they cover, or media who are represented by the same agencies as the players, then output is inevitably going to be sanitised.

Professional golf is already boring when it compares to other sports. The legendary characters of Arnie, Seve, Chi Chi etc are long gone and now the vast majority are media trained robots who offer very little in the way of a story unless it’s pulled out of them by a willing journalist. That’s only going to get worse the more great writers become unemployed.

I haven’t been in the golf media game for long, but I have learned one very important lesson. Authentic storytelling is paramount to the success of the sport and elevating stars.

I’d like to wish every single one of the great journalists that was released by SI all the best for the future and I hope they land in another important role within the sport as soon as possible.

[Nathan Crace, ASGCA, PLA @lipouts]

Visited my renovation Friday at @olympiahills18 near San Antonio. Despite a LOT of rain, @verdesportsco is making good progress. Nine holes of irrigation installed, tree work complete, tees underway & new @Billy_Bunker bunkers w/ @turfmaterials Premier Play sand looking good!

[Nathan Crace, ASGCA, PLA @lipouts]

I KNEW IT!!

[RWNutjob @Stickelliott]

Yes!

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Final approach last night just after sundown on @SouthwestAir Flight #480 from SAT>HOU > JAN. Good to be back home!

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If you look at this shirt and think "That reminds me of a 1979 Ford Bronco XLT with the Free Wheeling paint job," we can be friends...

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@SHistorians @DonaldRossSocie Been there. Done that. 16,000 sf green with bunker in the middle and another along the side, rightfully named the "Donut"⬇️

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It’s @HailStateFB kickoff weekend & the 1 wk old sprigs on the two new greens of our newly-redesigned short game facility for @HailStateWG and @HailStateMG at @MossyOakGolf are starting to jump! Exterior areas, the other bunker & sod should be done in the next 2 wks! #HailState

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Wet and muddy day for my site visit to False River today. I forgot to take pictures, so I thought I'd share the preview video that @golfgraffix made for us a couple of months ago instead. Enjoy!