DEVELOPMENT
Lohmann Golf breaks ground in Virginia
RUTHER GLEN, Va. —
Ground has been broken here at
Mattaponi Springs Golf Club at
Penóla Station, Lohmann Golf
Designs' first foray into the East
Coast market.
Developed by The Bellemount
Corp. of Beaverdam, Va., the 18hole Mattaponi Springs project
has secured all the necessary
permitting. Weather permitting,
the course will open in the fall of
2001.
With LGD's assistance,
Bellemount is building this upscale, daily-fee course in-house.
The site here in Northern Virginia is heavily wooded, so current work centers on the clearing of 75 to 80 acres of forest,
according to LGD senior architect Mike Benkusky, who added
that dirt-moving/course-shaping
should begin this spring.
Mattaponi Springs Golf Club
at Penóla Station will take shape
on a piece of property laden with
history. After emigrating to
Williamsburg in the 1700s, the
George family settled here in
Ruther Glen during the early
1800s. They christened their
homestead "Rose Hill" after the
family's ancestral estate in the
Midlands region of England.
Penóla Station, whose moniker incorporates the local nativeAmerican word for cotton, was
built in 1886 to serve Rose Hill
Lumber Co., which commanded
its own spur off the main northsouth line of the Richmond,
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Nineteenth-century remnants
of the Rose Hill estate are still
evident on the site: a main house,
a carriage house, even a cemetery. Restoration of these artifacts will play a major role in the
three-stage development of
Mattaponi Springs. During Stage
I, for example, the cemetery and
carriage house will be refurbished; the latter will be employed as the initial clubhouse.
Stage II will include construction of the final clubhouse, overlooking the 9th and 18th greens.
Stage III calls for renovation of
the main house.
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OAKMONT, Pa. — Frontier
Construction Co. has completed
Phase I of a two-stage renovation project here at stoned
Oakmont Country Club, site of a
record seven U.S. Open Championships.
Implementing a design by
Toledo, Ohio-based Arthur
Hills/Steve Forrest and Associates, Frontier handled construction of a unique short-game facility
which
features
a
12,000-square-foot chipping
green, three practice bunkers,
several grass bunkers and a dedicated 2-acre fairway/rough hitting area.
The new facility will open for
play this spring. Phase II of the
project — which involves the
wholesale upgrade of Oakmont's
existing practice facility, including a new tee and target greens
replicated from the championship West course — is scheduled to take place as early as
next fall, after the 2000 playing
season has come to a close.
"Practice facilities like this one
are becoming ever more popular at private clubs, mainly because a higher amenity standard
has been set by new upscale
daily-fees and resorts," said Nick
Scigliano, president of Frontier
Construction Co. "But it's not
easy for older, established suburban clubs like Oakmont to find
the space for these practice areas. That was Hills' challenge
with this project, as the topography was severely sloped and limited. In fact, an existing maintenance road had to be rerouted to
create the necessary space on
the property."
Once this was achieved, Hills
and Frontier succeeded in creating a practice facility that tests
all aspects of the short game,
while mimicking those greenside design elements found on
the club's famed West Course.