Forest Dunes: Doak & Crew To Design Reversible Course

The course will be added to Forest Dunes and according to the press release, Renaissance Golf Design and Tom Doak plan to build a reversible course ala the Old Course. Only that happened mostly by accident.

This sounds like a complicated but potentially exciting undertaking:

“This is a concept I have thought about for 30 years,” Doak said. “You need the right site and the right client to understand the appeal of it. At Forest Dunes we finally have both.”

Doak said when he first met Forest Dunes’ owner, Lew Thompson, an Arkansas-based trucking magnate, Thompson said he wanted a new course but it had to “wow” him.

Thompson wanted a second course that would keep golfers staying on the property an extra night or two after they had played the club’s Tom Weiskopf course, already ranked by national magazines in the Top 100 best courses in America.

The double dose of Doak should accomplish both of those goals.

“The appeal of a reversible course is people would want to play it both ways. You are getting two golf courses in one,” Doak said.