Bob O’ Link is not your average country club. When you hand your keys to the valet and walk into the clubhouse you are greeted with tiger stripes on the carpet beneath you, the bar to your left, along with trophy cases and card tables directly ahead. The members treated us great as we ripped apart and restored this 1925 C.H. Alison masterpiece.

I worked on bunker finishing throughout the golf course and learned a lot more about how to design an interesting golf course on flat ground. Alison took the route of designing enormous bunkers and very large green pads which are elevated about the fairway. Some might say it plays like the Winged Foot of the midwest…