Scott McDougall

Estimator, Wadsworth Golf Construction Company; BS LARCH Penn State 1994; Devoted Detroit Tigers / Penn State Football Fan

[ZitoSalena @ZitoSalena]

Eight days before Fogel flew home, guards came for him. They put a bag over his head and loaded him into a freezing truck. The ride took eight hours. It was late at night when they pulled him out by the scruff of his neck and pushed him inside a building. He could tell he was in another prison. What stayed with him was that the floor was clean. After the colony, that alone was shocking.
They shoved him into a cell. He stayed there seven days, let out once for a five-minute shower, and was told nothing.
On the eighth day, the guards came back carrying the clothes he had been wearing when he was arrested more than three years earlier.
“We’re leaving in one hour,” they told him.
He did not let himself believe it. In Russia, he explained, a prisoner’s hopes get raised and crushed so many times that he learns not to trust them.
“There’s not this beam of light,” he said. “It’s hard to be hopeful in Russia. Hope is not a big word to those people. It really isn’t.”
The men who moved him wore balaclavas. Nobody looked him in the eye, and nobody spoke to him. That was fine with him. He had kept his Russian deliberately bad the whole time. “It was one of my weapons,” he said. He could keep people at a distance or simply say, “I don’t know what you’re saying. Get me a translator.”
They put him in a proper vehicle and took the mask off. Then someone finally told him where they were going.
“We’re going to the airport.”
He still did not know what would be waiting for him there.
Witkoff had come straight from the Kremlin. Fogel was waiting inside. Witkoff remembers walking in and seeing him “like it was yesterday.”
“I said, ‘Steve Witkoff, United States government, we’re bringing you home,’” Witkoff said. “‘Marc, it’s time to get on the plane.’”
Fogel finished the line for him, the way people do when they have each replayed a moment a thousand times. “He looked at me, and he said, ‘Marc, let’s get on the plane.’”
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[Scott McDougall @doogspsu]

@evanfoxy Completely out of gas.

[Wadsworth Golf Construction Company @wadsworth_golf]

Thank you to everyone who has been a part of Wadsworth Golf Construction Company, including Brent Wadsworth & John Cotter, and our success over nearly 70 years. More than 1,200 projects mean many architects, course staffers and superintendents have been part of our journey.

[Golf Course Architecture @gcamagazine]

Illinois’ Orchard Valley Golf Course to reopen for public play on 5 September following $8.8 million renovation: https://t.co/k8dxDvZYzf

[Scott McDougall @doogspsu]

@MarcRyanOnAir Your top 5 OF to start the season are hurt … Greene, Meadows, Carpenter, Vierling, Perez (sort of). Not ideal.

[Wadsworth Golf Construction Company @wadsworth_golf]

At Briarwood Country Club (Ill.), bunkers were renovated under Jeff Mingay in 2022. @Billy_Bunker and @ProAngleOhio were used to create the bunkers that have vaulted Briarwood up the rankings of best courses in Illinois. All teeing complexes are being renovated this fall.

[Wadsworth Golf Construction Company @wadsworth_golf]

We were thrilled to construct Bella Ridge Golf Club. Built under Art Schaupeter & @TroonGolf, the new 18-hole course and practice facility was built using USGA recommendations for greens, @CapillaryFlow & @JohnsManville Evalith fabric in the bunkers and bentgrass playing surfaces

[Wadsworth Golf Construction Company @wadsworth_golf]

Happy 4th of July from Wadsworth Golf Construction! Wishing everyone a great weekend filled with celebration, good company, and maybe even a round of golf.

[Wadsworth Golf Construction Company @wadsworth_golf]

Our third and final phase of renovating greens, tees, bunkers and fairways @CantignyGolf in Wheaton, Illinois is off to a rousing start. Preparation for sod and seed occurring on the Woodside 9 prior to July 4th. @QuitnoGolf leading the charge with bunkers by @Billy_Bunker.

[Scott McDougall @doogspsu]

@tigers 1-0 with @FreddyLA7 in attendance. Need all the karma we can get!

[Wadsworth Golf Construction Company @wadsworth_golf]

Congrats to everyone who made the 3rd Chicago Adaptive Open a success! @CharitiesGolf was a Main Sponsor @FoxBendGolf. Brent Wadsworth (@WadsworthGolf founder) was instrumental in building Fox Bend in 1967. Thanks to @CDGAGolf & congrats to winners Jordan Thomas & Kim Moore.

[Scott McDougall @doogspsu]

@beckjason @CodyStavenhagen It might have been the DeLauter AB in the 1st. Slipped on the 2-2 pitch and then walked him on 3-2. Maybe?

[Wadsworth Golf Construction Company @wadsworth_golf]

We recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of the @CDGAGolf Sunshine Course, a 3-hole golf course for youth programs & people w/disabilities; & a turfgrass research center w/many cultivar varieties. @wadsworth_golf built & renovated it w/longtime support from @CharitiesGolf.

[Scott McDougall @doogspsu]

@blessyouboys Keider has pitched a Maddux for heavens sake. He must be hurt … there is no other explanation. Unless the manager … oh FFS.

[Hills • Forrest • Smith @HFS_GCA]

Initial construction visit for bunker renovation/tee addition project at Taylor (Mich.) Golf Course, a '95 @HFS_GCA design (l-r: Greg Corneta, @wadsworth_golf; Bob Makowski, superintendent; Doug Myslinski, Wadsworth; Steve Forrest, Hills-Forrest-Smith; & Cesar Berduo, Wadsworth).

[Richard Mandell Golf Architecture @RichardMandell]

The First Tee Sandhills project in Cameron, North Carolina has broken ground and we've already got the Himalayas green and chipping green subgrades dialed in! The nine-hole par three course is staked and we will begin shaping there in a few weeks. Many thanks to go around!

[Scott McDougall @doogspsu]

@JustinVerlander Welcome home.

[Golf Course Architecture @gcamagazine]

Bella Ridge, Colorado’s newest public golf course, is open for preview play.

GCA spoke with architect Art Schaupeter about the vision, routing, highlight holes and more: https://t.co/GOVKAoqjmd