Hinsdale Golf Club
Hinsdale
was created in late 1893 or early 1894 when twenty men,
impressed with the newly introduced game of golf, laid out a
rudimentary six-hole golf course in a pasture.
In 1899, the Club moved from the original course to
an eighty acre tract of rolling pasture land.
On this parcel of land, the Club built a nine-hole
golf course as well as a clubhouse. Within
about two years of building the course, the Club expanded to
a full eighteen holes. The Western Open Championship of the
Western Golf Association was played on this course in 1907.
By the new
millennium, modern golf technology and time had taken their
toll on the great course. As a great student and
admirer of the Golden Era period of golf design, it
was a thrill for Billy to restore Hinsdale. He
researched old maps and interviewed members who had played
the course for decades.
The eighteenth holes is
representative of the changes he designed. He shifted
the centerline, reshaping the fairway with 10,000 cubic
yards of fairway and slope. New trees were planted
inside the dogleg and a new bunker strategy was employed to
return this hole to its former strategic feel.
Wynlakes
Golf and Country Club
Wynlakes
was originally a 1987 Modern Era design.
In 2006 Billy Fuller Golf Design master planned a complete
renovation of Wynlakes Golf & Country Club in Montgomery,
Alabama. Wynlakes, a Modern Era course originally designed
and opened in 1987, now has the motif and strategic finesse
of a Golden Era course.
The scope of work included ten new
greens complexes, new bunker and tee strategy and motif, a
redesign of the eighteenth hole that now offers an exciting
par four finishing hole with a 10,000 square foot green,
lake edge restoration, extensive drainage enhancements, and
a new cart path system.
Golf Inc. recently announced that
Wynlakes Golf course has finished in the Top Five
Renovations for the year 2006.
