A few weeks ago, after nearly 10 years of planning and preparation, ground was finally broken on Tim Nugent’s golf course in suburban Helsinki, Finland.
Tapiola Golf Club is taking shape on a 135-acre, city-owned landfill in Espoo, and it’s expected to open in the summer of 2012. Nugent, who’s based in Vernon Hills, Illinois, not only designed the 6,660-yard course but, according to a report in Golf Course Architecture, is personally shaping it.
“I hope Tapiola will be a good example of the direction new courses should be headed -– fun and playable for everyone, but with just enough to keep good golfers interested,” Nugent told the magazine.
The site has been leased (for 40 years) by a group called Tapiola Golf, Ltd., which is funding the construction via the sale of stock.
Nugent, the son of golf architect Dick Nugent, has designed several courses in the United States -– among them Prairie Green Golf Course in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and White Deer Run Golf Course in Vernon Hills -– but this is his first overseas project.
Thursday, November 11, 2010
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