Vintage/Classic/Modern Corse being built in Omaha?

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omaha.com/article/20100721/S … 07219849/0

What would further set apart a riverfront course as a potential tourist destination in Omaha is that Doak would design it in a retro style that allows play with pre-1900 hickory-shaft clubs and replica, limited-flight golf balls — and with golfers wearing replica garb — while still being a modern, championship-length course.
Multiple tees would be built so the course could play as short as 4,500 yards to accommodate use of the limited-flight balls.
“Imagine,‘’ Wiren said, “you walk into the clubhouse and you get asked, ‘How do you like to play your golf today? Modern, classical (1920s equipment) or antiquarian (pre-1900s)?’
“This would be something nobody in the world has.”
Doak said the land he has seen would lend itself to a course that is “low-profile,” or subtle, in design because the ground is relatively flat. Like St. Andrews, the course could be just two holes wide, with an outward nine and an inward nine.
Distances from greens to the next tee would be short, to promote walking and possible use of caddies.
“I’d hope you could make this a no-cart course,‘’ Doak said.

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Well, if we can get “The Oracle of Omaha” Buffet out there for a game, then we might have something…

It’s refreshing to see people thinking like this to offer up the old school option. I can’t imagine anyone who has played, watched of followed golf closely
from the persimmon age though the modern game thinking that golf today is more interesting. It is really?

Golf is just a shell of what it was before… about as hollow as a modern driver.