Miakka Golf Club to shine along a Florida river, but another course feature comes from Down Under
Some of the best bunkers in the world caught the eyes of course architects Dana Fry and Jason Straka, who plan to model their traps at Miakka in the form of Australian Sandbelt courses.
Belleair CC (West) Rockets into Rankings Following Fry/Straka Restoration
Fry/Straka Global Golf Course Design is pleased to announce the West Course at Belleair Country Club has zoomed into the rankings following our restoration work after previously being unranked. Golfweek ranked the course #77 in the list of Top 200 Classic Courses in the USA and the #4 Best Private Course in the State of Florida.
Dana Fry, Jason Straka to design course alongside Irish beach used in 'Saving Private Ryan'
The American design team of Dana Fry and Jason Straka is headed to Ireland with plans to lay out a new course adjacent to Curracloe Beach in the southeast of the island.
Donald Ross uncovered: Jason Straka finds original Belleair CC layout in the Florida ground and in the history books
Architect Jason Straka in June was midway through a major face-lift of Belleair Country Club’s West Course, with a reopening slated for November. In order to save the original Donald Ross layout, which the private club says is the oldest continually operating course in Florida, Straka first was tasked with erasing decades’ worth of alterations that dampened the intent of the original design, often burying Ross’s sublime work beneath good intentions.