Was the thought always to create a private club or was consideration given to creating a public course?
The thought was always to go with a private club. The population near Holyoke, Colorado, is not large, so that going public seemed to be an even more risky proposition than a private club. We had heard about the success of Sand Hills, and felt that if we could produce an extremely high-level course, give people a chance to hunt game birds at a similar level and provide service in a sincerely nice manner, then we would have a chance to make it work. 6. What was your vision for the kind of course that was to be created? I thought it would, obviously, be a links type golf course. That is what all the sand and dunes provided. I knew that there were opportunities for a lot of interesting holes that were fun to play. During the process, I learned more and more about links golf and how critical the playing surface was. After learning more about the playing surface, I hoped that we could produce a surface that would allow the golfer to be a creative as their mind would allow. 7. How did you de
