First Extended Review, Streamsong In Florida

I'm almost speechless as we have our second story on new golf architecture, this time from Greg Midland providing one of the first in depth reviews of the 36-hole Coore/Crenshaw and Tom Doak courses for Streamsong resort.

The outside-of-Tampa resort attempts to combine the work of two design teams into a seamless experience.

The courses ebb and flow across the property, with the Blue laid out over much of the middle portion of the land and the Red starting out on the periphery before working its way back in. At various times, holes from both courses are visible, reinforcing the collaboration between the architects. Some of the holes originally sketched by one designer even ended up going on the other course.

“Before we got together, Bill had been on the site and had done a couple 18-hole routings,” explained Doak. “Naturally, he stayed in the middle of the site. So some of the stuff that he had on his earliest plans ended up on the Blue course, but in order to use the far ends of the site we had to do some switching around.”

The result is a seamless experience.

Midland also posted some images on Flickr that provides a chance to see some full screen shots.