April 25, 2013
Anthony SchoettleThe Hoosier Tour will give high-handicappers the chance to compete for prize purses at top courses across the Indianapolis
area. But participants could become ineligible for sanctioned events.
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March 30, 2013
Anthony SchoettlePositives can be hard to find in a record-breaking drought. However, for most of the roughly 430 golf courses in Indiana,
last summer’s scorcher was actually good for business.
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February 23, 2013
Don "Chip" Essig IV was the 2011 recipient of the PGA Golf Professional of the Year award.
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December 7, 2012
Kathleen McLaughlinEagle Creek Golf Club received a long-awaited face-lift this year under a contract that will rescue the city from most of
its expenses stemming from the previous operator’s loan default.
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September 6, 2012
Mason King
We'll be seeing a lot of water-bounded, bunker-laden Hole No. 18 as pro golf's
best players compete at Crooked Stick Golf Club in Carmel through Sunday. Legendary course designer Pete Dye describes what
he had in mind.
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July 14, 2012
Anthony Schoettle
PGA officials are keeping their eyes on Carmel's Crooked Stick as
the BMW Championship approaches. And groundskeepers are using some high-tech tactics to avoid the withering effects of drought.
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June 9, 2012
Bill BennerEven a visionary like Pete Dye couldn’t see a half-century into the future.
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March 10, 2012
Sam StallDeveloping new players should be top priority if sport wants to emerge from long downturn, official says
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March 3, 2012
Anthony SchoettleTicket and sponsorship sales for the BMW Championship—to be held Sept. 3-9 at Crooked Stick Golf Club in Carmel—are
well under par. In golf parlance, that means they’re exceeding expectations—big time.
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August 20, 2011
Maria LaMagna
Crooked Stick Golf Club pro Patrick White works 90 or more hours a week
and loves every minute of it.
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August 13, 2011
Sam StallMark Schmitt, president of Rawhide Golf Ball Co., runs a business that recovers dimpled pills from golf course water hazards,
buffs them up, and resells them.
(With photo gallery)
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July 28, 2011
Scott OlsonThe Pete Dye Golf Trail includes seven public courses chosen by Dye: Brickyard Crossing, The Fort Golf Resort, Maple Creek
Golf & Country Club, Plum Creek Golf Club, Mystic Hills Golf Club, Kampen Course and the Pete Dye Course at French Lick.
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July 19, 2011
Scott OlsonR.N. Thompson, which operates several local courses, claims the company's Imprelis herbicide caused "catastrophic tree loss."
R.N. Thompson has joined a Pennsylvania resident in filing the class-action suit.
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July 12, 2011
Cory SchoutenAn investment group has acquired the Golf Club of Indiana in southern Boone County near Zionsville and is planning improvements
to the 175-acre property.
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June 17, 2011
Scott OlsonRenamed Dye's Walk Country Club in 2007, the private golf course's original nine holes were the first designed by legendary
course architect Pete Dye. The Greenwood course has fallen on financial hard times and is hoping to emerge under new ownership.
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March 25, 2011
Scott OlsonGolf club's former operator defaulted on loan agreement, forcing city officials to make $222,724 in payments and search for
another contractor to manage it.
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March 14, 2011
Scott OlsonJerry Hayslett, who has managed the golf club on West 56th Street since 1999, will no longer be the operator, effective April
1, after he defaulted on a $3.5 million loan balance, city officials said.
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March 12, 2011
Anthony SchoettleCourses see shrinking revenue from companies, but many dealmakers still hit the links
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February 23, 2011
J.K. WallThe Indianapolis-based Language Training Center is now translating the letters of the professional golf association’s
commissioner into multiple languages and providing live interpretation at association meetings.
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December 11, 2010
Anthony SchoettleWomen's golf tour, other sports properties turn to local firm for language, cultural skills
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October 23, 2010
IBJ StaffThe local firm will operate the USGA's catalog and online merchandise programs.
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August 7, 2010
Anthony SchoettleThe once ballyhooed Jack Nicklaus-designed course near State Road 37 and 166th Street was perilously near bankruptcy just
a year ago.
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July 24, 2010
Bill BennerLet me be the last (quasi) sports journalist in America to weigh in on Tiger Woods.
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January 2, 2010
IBJ StaffBrian Nicholoff’s focus will be on bringing new clients and business ventures to Essig, which manages four central Indiana
golf courses.
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December 19, 2009
IBJ StaffChanges are coming to the Brickyard Crossing Golf Resort, but the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, which owns the facility,
has no intention of selling it.
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Doug Henning!
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Magician and illusionist!
The basic idea of nice apartments with parking and retail is a good one, but this design seems overwhelmingly big/tall for Broad Ripple. The size could be disguised a bit with lots of big trees/landscaping, but the complex is too massive to blend in easily. That section of canal between College and Westfield will also need to be upgraded on both sides. Nice apartments facing onto a nice promenade with shade trees/plantings could bring together the canal towpath/Monon recreation, the outdoor seating at existing restaurants, and this project into something that upgrades the whole area. A plan for the whole stretch makes more sense than facing nice new housing onto what looks like a ditch. Is there a plan? Does the public have input? Who pays? The apartment idea seems to be reasonable, but Whole Foods is not a good idea for appropriate retail. Besides the store being physically too big, there are already Fresh Market at 54xCollege and Whole Foods in Nora for fancy groceries. Good Earth and Kroger are within walking distance of the Shell site. There are at least 7 grocery stores within a safe bike ride. Whole Foods would add nothing but traffic congestion. This design is on the right track, but there needs to be more work done to ensure that it blends in with and enhances the existing community. A project that large will set a tone for that whole part of town. It could be a real asset, but only if done right.
I did not move to Zionsville to live in Carmel. This and the subsequent developments to follow will ensure a vanilla uniformity of strip malls and apartment buildings as we seek to bring our town down to the least common denominator. We were warned before recent elections that pro-development council members would make sure their friends (landowners and developers) would be able to make their millions off of the exploitation of Zionsville. Why in God's name would we sell out the best preserved small town in the State of Indiana?