Terry Rowles

The West Course at the brand-new Fall Line Club was birthed as a bold attempt by @OCMGolf to bring the look and spirit of the Melbourne Sandbelt to Georgia. Short of digging up Royal Melbourne and moving it 9,000 miles to the forest south of Atlanta, they could not possibly have done better. No course outside of Australia captures the look and feel of those sandbelt courses as well as they have here - not even close. It’s truly uncanny - you could cut yourself on the edges of those bunkers! Beyond just the sandbelt aesthetic, the overall design of the course is absolutely superb. Mind-blowingly good. I really don’t like predicting if/where new courses will fall on the various rankings lists and which accolades they’ll receive, so I won’t. But I will say this: on my personal/theoretical list of my favorite modern (post-1950) courses that I may or may not keep, Fall Line West walked right into the top-3, and I’m not sure where amongst that incredible company it might settle in. Been quite a while since that happened (hypothetically speaking, if I had such a list).

Really looking forward to getting back to Hudson National this year. HN has long been one of my favorite Tom Fazio designs, and last year, a team led by Tom Marzolf, Rick Phelps & Jeff Lawrence rebuilt all 18 greens to USGA spec (including several that were moved and/or reshaped), redid all of the bunkering and regressed all of the fairways. Can’t wait to see it. – at Croton-on-Hudson, NY