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New York in 1936; it was built with Works Progress Administration
labor. He also created the putting green at the White House for
Dwight Eisenhower and a hole with three different tees at Camp
David. He was a founder of the American Society of Golf Course
Architects in 1947.
Witch’s Cove, the 18-hole, 6,557-yard, par-71 Robert Trent Jones,
Sr. Signature Course at The Lodge of Four Seasons is “a typical
Trent Jones course, with a lot of layup par-fours off the tee,” says
Director of Golf Josh Crowell, PGA. With its traditional design,
large greens and 65 bunkers, “it’s a placement golf course versus a
distance golf course, with a lot more credit given to accuracy than
The Oaks Course
to distance,” he says. “The fast sloping and tricky greens make it a
very tried and true Robert Trent Jones course.”
Oaks Director of Golf Paul Leahy, PGA. He adds Von Hagge and Jones courses are noted for a broad-shouldered, heavily sculpted
Devlin are known for smaller greens and tighter fairways of 300 “power-golf” look that defi ned the post World War II years. They
to 400 yards. “It’s a target-oriented golf course, so we don’t have feature artistic landscaping, innovative use of bunkers, liberal use
big, fast greens like the newer courses,” Leahy says “As a result you of water hazards and well thought-out placement of greens and
need more accuracy when you play their courses. If you don’t hit hazards that encourage daring play and strategy. Jones said, “You
the green, you’ll have a short game more often than on a wide open look at a piece of ground and you know instinctively what makes a
course and that’s important to their designs.” great hole. There is a fl ow and rhythm that you can feel.”
Leahy says No. 9 is the course’s signature hole, featuring a waterfall
in front. “But No. 11 also is a diffi cult hole because you have to hit
Witch’s Cove
over water. And Nos. 13 and 14 are right on the Lake itself. They’re
picturesque but you have to know what you’re doing.”
Leahy points out Von Hagge and Devlin designed The Oaks
around a former ski slope. “The man-made slope was where our
driving range is now,” he says. “You can still see the old mechanism
for the lift down by hole No. 8.” The Oaks clubhouse itself has the
look of a ski chalet.
Von Hagge formed his golf course design company in 1962. Since
then he has been involved in the design, redesign or partial design of
over 250 golf courses in the United States, Caribbean and 16 foreign
countries. Devlin, a former PGA and Senior PGA Tour winner, along
with dozens of worldwide tournament wins, has designed more than
140 courses in the United States, Australia, Japan, Puerto Rico, the Witch’s Cove signature hole, No. 13, is a refl ection of this attitude.
Bahamas and Scotland since 1966. He is an announcer on ESPN. It’s a par three that goes over a picturesque cove — Witch’s Cove
The Oaks hosted the 1994 PGA Club Pro Championship, the — in the Lake of the Ozarks. “It’s more than 200 yard from tee to
largest professional tournament of its kind, challenging some of green and requires a carry of 180 yards over the cove,” Crowell says.
the best club professionals in the country. “It’s a Big-Boy hole, with some of Jones’ layered bunkers on the
front side of the green.”
Witch’s Cove, Lake ozark —
Designed by robert Trent Jones Sr.
Porto Cima, Lake ozark — Designed
Before he died at age 94 in 2000, the legendary Robert Trent
by Jack nicklaus
Jones, Sr. designed or redesigned more than 500 golf courses in “On a scale of one to 10, this is as close to a 10, if there ever
more than 40 states and 35 foreign nations — including Witch’s was a 10.” So said golf great Jack Nicklaus about his design for the
Cove at the Lake of the Ozarks. private golf course at the luxury waterfront community Porto Cima
His fi rst course design was for Green Lakes State Park in upstate (Italian for “hillside harbor”). Opened in 2000, Porto Cima is the
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