Exploring Colonial Golf Course's Latest Renovations

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00:00 (upbeat music)

00:03 - So you walked the golf course,

00:04 and for those that are familiar with Colonial,

00:07 or even those that aren't,

00:08 just kind of your biggest takeaways of,

00:11 I know the eighth hole is a big change

00:12 that Gil kind of talked about,

00:15 but any other holes too that stick out

00:17 that you feel like that are gonna be awesome?

00:19 - Yeah, eighth's unbelievable, what he did with eighth.

00:23 Moving all the way to the left against the ravine.

00:25 It's a beautiful hole.

00:27 He did a fantastic job there.

00:29 If there was any bigger changes,

00:31 I would say he 12 a little bit,

00:33 and he backed up, I think he's playing 470 now.

00:36 - Wow.

00:37 - For those that know Colonial,

00:39 you can't get to the right bunker,

00:40 you can't carry the left bunker.

00:42 - Really?

00:43 - They moved the green right,

00:45 and up against kind of the hazard, I guess.

00:47 - Wow, that hole was always kind of blight,

00:50 just kind of, 'cause you could just bomb it

00:52 over that left bunker,

00:53 but now that's gonna be a much more difficult hole.

00:56 - It was the only hole in the golf course

00:57 you just couldn't see the green, pretty much,

00:59 or the fairway.

01:00 So now with the green shifted to the right,

01:02 you see the green from T-box,

01:04 but now you're gonna be hitting more of a,

01:05 you know, seven eighths and nine irons in that green

01:08 as opposed to the club wedges.

01:10 - Wow.

01:11 - And then 13 was really cool.

01:12 He lifted it six feet and pushed it back a little bit.

01:15 - Okay.

01:16 - The part three, and put bunkers in front of the green.

01:19 So his whole idea was to go back to 41 the way it looked.

01:22 And he talked to,

01:26 it's funny, we were walking a couple of weeks ago

01:28 and I asked him, "What's the word should I use?"

01:30 'Cause you didn't renovate it.

01:32 And he said, "It's a historical restoration."

01:34 - Historical restoration.

01:36 - Okay, I like that.

01:37 'Cause he didn't change much.

01:39 I mean, he just wanted to make it more natural flowing

01:41 like it used to be.

01:42 And, you know, he shallowed some bunkering,

01:46 more natural flowing, ice, calm, cookie cutter bunkers,

01:50 big white faces.

01:51 - Yeah.

01:51 - Like that's the natural, let's say, you know, green.

01:54 He made it more natural with the new flowing brink

01:58 as he put it in throughout.

02:00 But as far as like strategy, nothing really changed

02:02 except for number eight, obviously.

02:04 - Yeah.

02:05 - One of the biggest things that I kind of threw in

02:07 my two cents, I guess, is we took some bunkers out of play

02:10 on a lot of holes.

02:12 'Cause it's funny when guys talk about colonial,

02:14 they try to hit it in the bunker.

02:15 - 'Cause they're perfect.

02:16 - Perfect.

02:17 - Perfect.

02:18 - Yes.

02:19 I mean, it's easiest bunkers to get out of.

02:20 So a lot of the holes, we took some bunkering out of play

02:23 for instance, number nine, we took the right bunkers out.

02:26 - Yeah.

02:27 - And then the left bunkers, we pushed up to about 300,

02:31 I guess, something like that.

02:32 So if you're laying back and you hit it left,

02:34 you're no longer in a bunker, you're in the rough.

02:36 And you know how hard it is to play that rough in colonial.

02:39 - So brutal.

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02:43 (bells chiming)

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