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Nicklaushcristens'
his golf course
"It's auser-friendly course. It's more challeng-
ing the better you are"
Jack Nicklaus
Legendary golfer, designer of North Palm Beach
Country Club course
Golf legend on hand for North Palm
Country Club grand opening
By KEVIN CROGILLA
Sports writer
NORTH PALM BEACH
After much anticipa-
tion, the North Palm
Beach Country Club golf
course had its grand
opening last Friday, high-
lighted by an appearance
by Jack Nicklaus. Mr.
Nicklaus redesigned the
course.
The course officially re-
opened in November, but
this time Mr. Nicklaus
was on hand to give his
thoughts on the finished
product. He gave a
warm-up demonstration
on the driving range and
played an 18 -hole exhibi-
tion round in the morn-
ing.
After, Mr. Nicklaus
posed for photos and
signed autographs for
fans before being inter-
viewed by the local tele-
vision media. At the
press conference/lunch-
eon, he gave his assess-
ment of the course.
"I think it's a great
course. I think we did .a
very good job. I did with
the course just about
what I wanted to do with
it," Mr. Nicklaus said. "It's
a user-friendly course.
It's more challenging the
better you are. I undulat-
ed the greens and put a
little spice in them. I did-
n't change them com-
pletely, but I just added
some elevation and dif-
ferent looks to the
greens. That gives people
a new challenge."
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Basically, the theme all
along has been a more
challenging course:ele-
vation changes, bigger
and better sand traps,
and more holes with
water hazards. There's a
very small amount of
length added to it, but
not changing the length
was important, because
of the demographic of
the club members, he
said.
"I think it's a perfect
golf course for the com-
munity. I didn't want to
come in and build a golf
course- that the senior
citizens couldn't play. I
was really concerned
a;qut them. They come
down here to retire. I
wanted them to have a
course that they could
play. When you get older,
you get shorter. And
there are a lot of good,
short holes," Mr. Nick-
laus said.
Joe Musciotto, a 64 -
year -old North Palm resi-
dent, recently played the
course and explained the
difference between
before and after the
reconstruction.
"It's like day and night.
The greens are very diffi-
cult to master. They're
bigger, better and faster.
The traps are better.. It's
also a topical difference
in the way the course
looks," he said.
"There are elevation
changes all around. It's a
completely different
course. The old course
was boring. This one
never gets boring."