Chicago’s golf scene has been blessed with some Arthur Hills magic. The Ivanhoe Club has recently completed a 60 month project that was done by Arthur Hills/Steve Forrest and Associates.
These people are in for some long lasting golf nirvana, now that Hills has waved his wand over their land.
Raymond Kondziela, Ivanhoe’s general manager and chief operating officer, say’s:
“The club has positioned itself to host a PGA Tour event. We hired Arthur Hills/Steve Forrest and Associates because we wanted the same architects who were called upon to tighten up Oakland Hills, Oakmont, Inverness, Congressional and Country Club of North Carolina, among others. Our members wanted a club that, with time, would rival Medinah, Shoreacres and Olympia Fields. I think we have achieved the first step.”
“One of the central issues addressed by our renovation work was the lack of variety inherent to the three nines at Ivanhoe,” says Drew Rogers, the partner who directed the project for Hills/Forrest. “Many 27-hole clubs have an 18-hole course designed in one style, and a third nine, perhaps in a different style. The members felt that all three nines at Ivanhoe were too similar and needed their own stylistic identities. That was our mission and I think it’s safe to say we met that challenge in creating the Forest, Marsh and Prairie nines.”
“Ivanhoe has many avid golfers and while their goal was to bring Ivanhoe up to a playing standard on par with the famous courses of Chicago, it was also very important to keep 18 holes open for golf,” Rogers says. “We agreed on a three-phase master plan approach laid out to the membership in 1998 that tackled each nine separately while keeping the other 18 in tact.”
“I am very proud and pleased with the renovation efforts at Ivanhoe,” says Arthur Hills, founder and principal of Hills/Forrest. “This is a strong club with strong leadership, and now they have 27 holes of strong, strategically sound golf. Ivanhoe is a fine example of how a once well regarded club can be reborn and be considered one of the best.”
Quotes are from The Golf Press Association’s publication The Wire.
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