Golf – Page 4 – Indianapolis Business Journal

Face-lift nearly complete at Eagle Creek golf courses

December 7, 2012

Eagle Creek Golf Club received a long-awaited face-lift this year under a contract that will rescue the city from most of its expenses stemming from the previous operator’s loan default.

PGA’s top players face fierce finishing hole at Crooked Stick

September 5, 2012

We'll be seeing a lot of water-bounded, bunker-laden Hole No. 18 as pro golf's best players compete at Crooked Stick Golf Club in Carmel through Sunday. Legendary course designer Pete Dye describes what he had in mind.

Golf courses scramble to weather lack of rain

July 12, 2012

PGA officials are keeping their eyes on Carmel's Crooked Stick as the BMW Championship approaches. And groundskeepers are using some high-tech tactics to avoid the withering effects of drought.

BENNER: Crooked Stick may be too small for today’s pro golfers

June 7, 2012

Even a visionary like Pete Dye couldn’t see a half-century into the future.

Crooked Stick buoyed by strong early sales for BMW event

March 1, 2012

Ticket and sponsorship sales for the BMW Championship—to be held Sept. 3-9 at Crooked Stick Golf Club in Carmel—are well under par. In golf parlance, that means they’re exceeding expectations—big time.

PGA exec outlines course for golf resurgence

February 27, 2012

Developing new players should be top priority if sport wants to emerge from long downturn, official says

Crooked Stick golf pro hits links every day, rain or shine

August 18, 2011

Crooked Stick Golf Club pro Patrick White works 90 or more hours a week and loves every minute of it.

Firm makes splash retrieving golf balls

August 11, 2011

Mark Schmitt, president of Rawhide Golf Ball Co., runs a business that recovers dimpled pills from golf course water hazards, buffs them up, and resells them. (With photo gallery)

Indiana tourism effort honors famed course designer Dye

July 28, 2011

The Pete Dye Golf Trail includes seven public courses chosen by Dye: Brickyard Crossing, The Fort Golf Resort, Maple Creek Golf & Country Club, Plum Creek Golf Club, Mystic Hills Golf Club, Kampen Course and the Pete Dye Course at French Lick.

Golf course manager suing DuPont over herbicide

July 19, 2011

R.N. Thompson, which operates several local courses, claims the company’s Imprelis herbicide caused “catastrophic tree loss.” R.N. Thompson has joined a Pennsylvania resident in filing the class-action suit.

Buyer snaps up 175-acre Golf Club of Indiana

July 12, 2011

An investment group has acquired the Golf Club of Indiana in southern Boone County near Zionsville and is planning improvements to the 175-acre property.

Greenwood golf course reorganizing under bankruptcy

June 10, 2011

Renamed Dye’s Walk Country Club in 2007, the private golf course’s original nine holes were the first designed by legendary course architect Pete Dye. The Greenwood course has fallen on financial hard times and is hoping to emerge under new ownership.

City names new golf manager for Eagle Creek

March 24, 2011

Golf club’s former operator defaulted on loan agreement, forcing city officials to make $222,724 in payments and search for another contractor to manage it.

City terminating contract of Eagle Creek golf manager

March 14, 2011

Jerry Hayslett, who has managed the golf club on West 56th Street since 1999, will no longer be the operator, effective April 1, after he defaulted on a $3.5 million loan balance, city officials said.

Language Training Center expands relationship with LPGA

February 23, 2011

The Indianapolis-based Language Training Center is now translating the letters of the professional golf association’s commissioner into multiple languages and providing live interpretation at association meetings.