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Home My WebLink About2008 Golfweek MagazineSPECIAL ADVERTISING SUPPLEMENT TO GOLFWEEK MAGAZINE 2008 week si es COURSES YOU CAN PLAY Golf week's BEST Courses 1ou Can PI. Atunyote Golf Club at Turning Stone Resort & Casino Verona, New York 1 THE CLASSIC AT MADDEN'S ON GULL LAKE Brainerd, Minnesota 1800.247.1040 I www.Maddens.com COURSE STATISTICS THE CLASSIC Architect Scott Hoffmann Par 72 Yardage Rating Tour 7102 75.0 Black 6715 73.2 Blue White Gold Red 6352 5862 5438 4859 71.5 69.3 72.5 69.4 Slope 143 139 136 132 131 124 HONORS • Golfweek's Best Courses You Can Play (No. 7 in Minn.)-Golfweek • Golfweek's Best Resort Courses (No. 64)-Goliweek • America's 100 Greatest Public Golf Courses (No. 42) -Golf Digest • Best Places to Play (5 Stars) -Golf Digest • Best in State (No. 9 in Minn.) -Golf Digest AMENITIES Chris Foley Golf Schools, two practice facilities (one heated and covered for inclement weather), three golf shops, a 2,000-square-foot clubhouse, 281-room resort and The Classic Grill Restaurant and Bar SITUATED AMONGST ACRES of spring -fed lakes, majestic pines, sweeping knolls and pristine wetlands, The Classic at Madden's on Gull Lake rests atop a stunningly beautiful, natural wooded site in the heart of Minnesota's Brainerd Lakes region. Though the golf course boasts 60 sand bunkers, water comes into play on 12 holes to create a multitude of risk/reward opportunities. The putting surfaces also offer great variety, ranging in size from 4,000 square feet to 11,000 square feet and from relatively flat greens to dramatic rolling terrors. THE DUNES AT MAUI LANI GOLF COURSE Kahului, Hawaii 1808.873.0422 I www.DunesAtMauiLani.com COURSE STATISTICS THE DUNES AT MAUI LANI Architect Robin Nelson Par 72 Yardage Rating Slope Black 6841 73.5 136 Blue 6413 71.6 130 White 5833 68.3 121 Red 4768 67.9 114 HONORS • Golfweek's Best Courses You Can Play (No. 9 in Hawaii)-Golfweek • Best Places to Play (4 Stars) -Golf Digest AMENITIES A lighted practice range with two acres of grass tees, two putting/chipping greens and an indoor teaching pavilion, as well as a 15,000-square-foot, plantation - style clubhouse with a golf shop, restaurant, bar, banquet room, locker rooms and showers OTHER NOTABLE FACTS • Site of several important local and regional match -play and stroke -play events • Home to many of Hawaii's top junior golf programs and events FORMED BY THE receding waters of the Pacific, the million - year -old alluvial sandhills of Maui's Kahului Isthmus provide the stunning framework for The Dunes at Maui Lani Golf Course. Prevailing trade winds, naturally sloping terrain and radical elevation changes shape the course's routing and flow, resulting in an enjoyable island golf adventure that demands intelligence, skill, patience and focus. Characterized by both complexity and playability, the clever design of this inland "Hawaiian links" course also offers golfers the best of two worlds: a tropical -paradise layout in an Irish -dunes setting. NESHANIC VALLEY GOLF COURSE Neshanic Station, New Jersey 1908.369.8200 I www.NeshanicValleyGolf.com DRAPED OVER AN expansive landscape of rolling farm- lands and surrounded by acres of natural grasses, undisturbed wetlands and environmentally sensitive areas, Neshanic Valley's Championship Course lays claim to 27 holes of truly remarkable championship golf. The course's three distinctive nines — The Meadow, The Lake and The Ridge — each play to a par of 36 and boast large bunkers, long-range vistas, undulating greens and five individual tee boxes on every hole, affording players of all abilities the opportunity to enjoy a fun yet challenging experience round after round. COURSE STATISTICS THE CHAMPIONSHIP COURSE Architects Hurdzan/Fry Design Par 72 Yardage Rating Black 7108 73.8 Gold 6695 Blue 6231 5699 5098 Silver Green 76.7 69.3 66.9 64.5 Slope 130 127 121 115 110 HONORS • Go/fweek's Best Courses You Can Play (No. 8 in NJ.)-Golfweek • Golfweek's Best New Courses 2006 (No. 46)-Golfweek AMENITIES Grille room, banquet facilities, fully stocked golf shop, locker rooms with showers, driving range, practice greens, nine -hole executive course, The Callaway Golf Performance Center and the Neshanic Valley Golf Academy, which offers numerous golf schools and clinics for juniors and adults OTHER NOTABLE FACTS 2008 USGA Public Links Qualifying Site and host of the 2007 Metropolitan Golf Association/MetLife Public Links Championship NORTH PALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB North Palm Beach, Florida 1561.691.3433 I www.Village-NPB.org NORTH PALM BEACH Country Club's newly redesigned Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf Course — the crown jewel of North Palm Beach — is a fun, fair and challenging course that brilliantly showcases its exquisite Sunshine State setting. Draped atop the sloping undulations of the Seminole Ridge, a topographical feature unique to South Florida, the course boasts exciting elevation changes and confounding contours throughout its 18 stunning holes. Meanwhile, rolling fairways, well -bunkered green complexes, four dazzling lakes and the Intracoastal Waterway combine to present a scenic and thoroughly enjoyable golf course for all levels of players. COURSE STATISTICS NORTH PALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB Architect Jack Nicklaus Par 71 Yardage Rating Black 7071 74.8 Blue 6365 71.3 White 5932 68.8 Red 5203 70.7 Slope 140 135 130 128 HONORS • Golfweek's Best Courses You Can Play (No.10 in Fla.) -Golfweek AMENITIES A lighted driving range, chipping and putting greens, golf instruction, a golf shop, well-appointed locker rooms, 10 lighted Har-Tru tennis courts, an Olympic -size swimming pool and the Village Green Restaurant and Bar COURSE RECORD 66, Alex Disney I58 i Golfweek's Best Courses You Can Play • 2008 Go/fweek's Best Courses You Can Play • 2008 59