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The art of design
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 Clark's Celebrity Course at Indian Wells Golf Resort is a natural beauty. Clark believes that a great course takes a few years to mature and gain recognition, and that every great course has nuances to make it stand out from the crowd. “I suspect all great courses are not the same,” said Clark, who now lives in Palm Desert. “They all have different features, strategies and natural components whereby you get a vastly different set of circumstances. Take, for instance, the landscape at St. Andrews, with its many small, hidden pot bunkers, compared to the manicured, highly visible rolling terrain at Augusta National. Comparing the two is rather like comparing a Ferrari and a Rolls Royce. Nevertheless, both are wonderful tests of golf and engender enormous excitement when they host the world’s major championships.” Clark knows a great deal about golf in the Coachella Valley and thinks the Tradition Golf Club and Madison Club are top-notch. “The Tradition is a fine example of desert golf set amongst coves of the Santa Rosa Mountains,” he said. “It’s beautifully conditioned, very playable, interesting and the sort of golf course you could play every day of the week and still be sufficiently challenged. The Madison Club is also a terrific test of golf where strategy plays a huge part." THE ART OF DESIGN: TEN GOLF COURSE ARCHITECTS
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