Going bunkers: 4 courses with bunker success stories
Stuck in the middle of a bunker renovation, the Kenwood CC crew found a product they could install themselves.
Done with a (Bill) Diddel-inspired renovation
Thirty-six-hole Kenwood Country Club in Cincinnati has planned a June 2021 grand reopening for its Kendale Course, a Golden Age layout where Ohio-based Fry/Straka Global Golf Course Design has completed a comprehensive $5 million renovation.
Tartan Talks No. 53
Fry Straka Global Golf Course Design’s Jason Straka and Kenwood Country Club’s Kent Turner return for an encore to discuss how they reached the big-project finish line in a year filled with volatility.
Kenwood completes course renovation to mark 90-year anniversary
Kenwood Country Club in Cincinnati, Ohio, has reopened its Kendale course following a renovation by golf course design firm Fry/Straka.
Pine Valley and Calusa Pines-inspired Union League project takes shape
Golf architecture firm Fry/Straka has completed 12 holes of a huge renovation project on the newly-named Union League National Golf Club in Swainton, New Jersey, and is now working on the club’s ‘Sherman’ nine.
Tartan Talks No. 41
They work together. Why not let them talk together? Jason Straka of @FryStrakaGolf and Kenwood Country Club’s Kent Turner offer insight into the architect-superintendent relationship.
There is So Much Golf to Love in Michigan
The Ohio Golf Journal celebrates some of the best golf in Michigan including the new South Course at Arcadia Bluffs. Check out what they had to say.
Fore Golfers Network Episode 152: Golf Course Design Insights with Dana Fry & Jason Straka
Welcome to the FORE GOLFERS NETWORK Podcast, Episode 152 - dedicated to a discussion of golf course design. Our special guests are the popular design duo of Dana Fry and Jason Straka. Their work is on display around the country and around the globe, and their passion for the game comes blasting through in this wide ranging conversation.
Construction begins on new Yas Acres golf course in Abu Dhabi
Construction has started on the first nine holes of the Yas Acres golf course in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, designed by Fry/Straka.
2019 MGL TV: Arcadia Bluffs South Course
Michigan Golf Live returns to Arcadia Bluffs but this time to provide their viewers a full tour of the new South Course.
Kenwood CC to begin Kendale course renovation in August
Clearing work was started this past winter on the Kendale course at Kenwood Country Club in Cincinnati, Ohio, the first step in a renovation plan created by golf course architecture firm Fry/Straka.
Union League National - 2019 Master Plan
Below are excerpts from the monthly newsletter BANNER published by the Union League of Philadelphia, which provides a spotlight on the Master Plan for Union League National Golf Club.
Climbing the Hill: Calusa Pines
We hear stories of people in all walks of life who chase their dreams, overcome adversity and achieve moments of triumph. These stories provide us with inspiration to tackle our own challenges. To go one large step further, what about a person who stares death in the face while simultaneously working to build something great enough to outlive them? That is the kind of example that stops us in our tracks as if to ask, “What is your excuse for not living your best life today?” Just such a story unfolded outside of Naples, FL, at Calusa Pines Golf Club, and continues today with a vibrant membership, a beautiful golf course, and a surprisingly tall hill.
Inspired Designs – ASGCA Design Excellence Recognition Program
Fry/Straka Global Golf Design is honored to have the South Course at Arcadia Bluffs recognized by the American Society of Golf Course Architects (ASGCA) Design Excellence Recognition Program.
Matt Ginella and Jason Straka talk golf course architecture
New golf course construction has slowed way down in the last decade or so. Brand new courses are still coming online, though, and one of the most acclaimed openings from 2018 was the South Course at Arcadia Bluffs in Michigan. Matt Ginella recently spoke with golf course architect Jason Straka of Fry/Straka Global Golf Course Design, the firm responsible for the South Course. The architects drew inspiration from one of the world’s greatest courses, but this project was not without risk.
2018 Design Excellence Recognition Program honorees announced by ASGCA
The South Course at Arcadia Bluffs, Arcadia, Michigan/Dana Fry, ASGCA, and Jason Straka, ASGCAThe project is a unique design inspired by the Chicago Golf Club design from early American golf course architects CB Macdonald and Seth Raynor.
Arcadia Bluffs South Course – A True Modern Classic
Thankfully, public golfers now have another opportunity to play the sort of course Macdonald and Raynor would have designed, the South Course at Arcadia Bluffs, at the resort of the same name in northern Michigan. When pictures of the new layout—a mile inland from the resort’s tremendously popular first course, which fronts Lake Michigan and was designed nearly 20 years ago by Warren Henderson and Rick Smith—began appearing last year, the reaction was almost universal shock and astonishment at the rectangular bunkers cut into wide, straight-edge fairways or bordering huge, square greens, geometric features common to Macdonald/Raynor courses.
‘18 Holes’ Features The South Course at Arcadia Bluffs
Jimmy Hanlin and Fox Sports Holly Sonders join Dana Fry to introduce you to the new South Course at Arcadia Bluffs.
New Arcadia Bluffs course offers a fresh take on a familiar idea
Once you start playing the South Course, you’ll realize that all its right angles and parallel lines are less noticeable at ground level than from aerial views or diagrams in the yardage book. What is important isn’t the trigonometry of the various features. It’s their positions on each golf hole that make the difference. In carving this course out of a bland barley field, Dana Fry ran the risk of producing golf’s equivalent of a game of Checkers. But his brilliant bunker placement and green contours elevate Arcadia Bluffs South to a game of three-dimension Chess.
Union League National
Inside Golf talks to Dana Fry about the transformation at Union League National.