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Unforgettable Golf and Real Estate at Red Ledges
Red Ledges in Utah has everything you'd want in a luxury housing community: great views, miles of infrastructure and, most importantly, a Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf Course.
If you were going to develop a luxury housing and recreation community in these economic times, you might have a wish-list something like this: two Fortune 500 CEOs for owners, over 2,000 acres of land in some of the most pristine country in America, and nearly 10 miles of infrastructure and utilities installed even before the first house was built. Most of all, you might wish for a centerpiece golf course, designed by the greatest player in history.
After touring the grounds of Red Ledges luxury homesites, about one hour north of Salt Lake City, you start to wonder if maybe the developers of this exclusive four-season Heber real estate community have a genie corked in a bottle somewhere. It's hard to imagine anything else they could wish for to make the place any better, and that goes for the superb Jack Nicklaus Signature Course that lies at the heart of the development.
Amenities at Red Ledges
Although about half of the 1,200-plus luxury homesites at Red Ledges have already been sold; as of yet, most of the amenities (and all of the homes) are still nascent. The list of what is yet to come, however, is nevertheless almost overwhelming.
Within the next couple of years, residents will have access to a nine-hole Jack Nicklaus short course, Jim McLean Practice and Instructional Facility, Cliff Drysdale Tennis Academy, spa, swimming pools, fitness facility, equestrian center abutting over 3,000 contiguous acres of open space, hiking, biking and horseback riding trails, breathtaking mountain views, close access to Deer Valley Resort ski areas and excellent fly fishing in several rivers nearby rivers.
The one amenity that is already open, however, is quite a doozy: the Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf Course. Visitors and prospective homeowners fortunate enough to play this masterpiece will never forget the experience, and as such, it would be hard to imagine a better way to advertise the Red Ledges community.
Red Ledges: How it plays
Red Ledges is the 200th U.S. course by Nicklaus Design, and the Golden Bear brings all of his experience to this truly spectacular and challenging site.
The titanic track measures 7,653 yards from the tips, with a stratospheric course rating of 77.2 and slope rating of 153 from the tips. Fortunately for us mere mortals, however, every hole offers four or five tee boxes, and from the 5,190 forward tees.
No matter where golfers tee it up, though, everyone gets to play an amazing routing that begins atop the namesake red ledges - cathedral sandstone cliffs that tower above the winding, heaving fairways. The tees of the 427-yard first hole are perched some 300 feet above the first fairway. This is one opening hole that you will never, ever forget.
In fact, this is perhaps one of the most memorable courses most visitors here will ever play. One magnificent vista after another greets players on nearly every tee. At the 468-yard, par-4 third, the tee box sits behind the second green, and overlooks the Heber Valley, the area that will be the Short Course, and two different fairways.
Another tee box that will have you licking your chops is at the 560-yard 14th, where you stand more than 150 feet above the fairway with another view of the entire valley and the surrounding mountains. As with most of the holes, there's a generous fairway but deadly trouble right and left.
Perhaps my favorite hole on the entire course, though - and one of my favorite all-time par 3s - is the 203-yard ninth. Even if you are playing the member tees (168 yards) or middle tees (147 yards), consider moving back to the Nicklaus tees here. Climbing the steps to the summit of a tee box reminiscent of a Mayan pyramid, you shoot over two juniper trees to a semi-occluded, semi-bowl-shaped green that runs from front left to back right.
Red Ledges: The verdict
To be completely honest, I have never quite understood the allure of private golf courses. Red Ledges, however, has opened my eyes.
If this were a resort course or daily-fee course, it could be criticized for being too difficult. Some of the greens, for example, allow pin positions that are borderline unfair. (And certainly unfair for a group of golf writers visiting for the first time!)
As a private course, though, where the members will have unlimited access, world-class instruction and immaculate grooming, Red Ledges is ideal. The sprawling, rolling greens are extremely tricky, and although they are still young and quite grainy, they will in time become legendary. Approach shots simply must find the right sections, or three- and even four-putts will spoil some otherwise good rounds.
The same can be said of the fairways, where position and club choice will be crucial, especially at this higher altitude (where every shot seems to travel about a half club too far).
Although the clubhouse is not built yet, it will someday loom above the first tees, atop the red ledge itself and will offer one of the most spectacular views in a state full of amazing landscapes. For now, the temporary clubhouse/half-way house is as comfy as some real clubhouses and serves up perhaps the best hamburger I have ever tasted.
In short, Red Ledges is a true members' course for some very, very fortunate members.
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Original Article Source: Kiel Christianson GolfCourseRealty.com
Jack Nicklaus--Man in many millions
We have much to say about Jack Nicklaus, who at 70 can still claim to be the greatest golfer of all time. There are, of course, people, including himself, who feel he might not always be right up there on top of the pile, even in his own lifetime, but at the moment there is a huge question mark hanging over Tiger Woods, the only pursuer with any hope of surpassing Jack's incredible record of 18 major wins and maybe claiming his crown as 'the greatest'.
Tiger needs five more majors to do it, but right now, following the sex scandal that has blown up around him like an ugly cloud and sent the once proud, perhaps even arrogant, World No 1 scuttling into the night and out of sight, there is doubt about him ever returning to the game that has made him the richest sportsman of all time. Even if he does, there is no guarantee he will be as good as he was. Even for a man with irons will like he has, it won't be easy standing up on a tee surrounded by spectators who are not likely to be as overwhelming supportive as they used to be.
For many his status as a god will have gone, soiled, as it has been, by his worldly weaknesses. They say nothing is what it seems, but the memories I retain of Jack Nicklaus at the same sort of age as Tiger highlight him as being a big, blond all-American good guy; a tough as teak competitor who would give nothing away, but was always a gentleman of the highest calibre.
If this father, grandfather and life-time husband was ever involved in dubious actions, on or off the golf course, I don't recall them.
Apart from his stunning feats with golf clubs in his hand, Nicklaus can also boast of being one of the greatest golf course designers ever, a shrewd businessman who still sees golf equipment marketed under the Golden Bear brand and who, besides everything else, has built, owns and resides with his family at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio, where each year the US PGA Tour stops for The Memorial, one of the key events on its schedule.
Nobody without a very strong mind, will ever have managed the nerve-jangling task of winning as many majors as Nicklaus did, and in this brief birthday tribute to the 70-year-old legend, I have a little story that maybe personifies one of his strengths - his memory; something I believe separates the good from the great.
Memory recalls the things we did when we hit that huge drive down the middle of the fairway and reminds us of the way we kept our head down when we nailed that putt from 25 feet. It alerts us of the dangers of being too aggressive or too cautious and of the things we did right or wrong on the way to our last few tournaments. Well, Jack is said to have had a great memory - but according to the story I am talking about, only in the way he wanted, perhaps needed, to remember things.
It goes something like this. At one of his clinics, he was talking about one the tournaments he had played in when a fan piped up: "I remember that hole, Jack. You three-putted it." Nicklaus apparently glared at the man and snapped. "Not true. I have never three-putted anything when I have been in contention."
Good on you, Jack Nicklaus. Keep enjoying the journey - even though getting old is not for sissies.
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