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Director of
Golf - Tom Tauche
Head PGA Golf
Professional - Ed Kujalowicz
Apprentice
Golf Professional - Jeff Becker
Course
Superintendent - Adam Robertson
Springs Ranch Golf Club is a
links style golf course that spans over 200
scenic acres. There are five different tee boxes on
every hole to allow players of any caliber to
test their ability. Tee times seven days in
advance. The architect paid special attention to
the natural landscape, by integrating the Creek Rive Basin and the
rolling plains of eastern Colorado, to give a
fair but challenging test to any golfer.
The golf course plays at 6,500 feet above sea
level.
The architect for the Springs
Ranch Golf course was Richard M. Phelps.
Richard M. Phelps has his signature on courses
in 15 states and Canada and continues to grow,
but it's a good bet that golf course architect
extraordinaire DICK PHELPS is more enthused
about the impressions he's made on his native
state of Colorado than any others. Dick and son
Rick, who joined his Evergreen firm full time 10
years ago, have been involved personally in over
250 projects in either full design, renovation,
expansions or re-modeling in the 36 years he's
been making his mark since leaving Iowa State
University in 1963 with bachelor and masters
degrees in landscape architecture. Still, the
majority are right in Colorado where his roots
and heart are anchored. Born and schooled in
Colorado Springs, Phelps has been incredibly
kind to both golfers and the environment from
the moment he got into the design business after
college. He has been most prolific in the
production of public courses, virtually all of
them extremely user-friendly to the golfers who
have grown weary trying to extract golf balls
and themselves from cavernous bunkers, excessive
water hazards as well as monstrous greens that
look like burial grounds for dinosaurs. Dick's
trademark is that of human - well,
golfer-kindness. His philosophy is up front, no
blind shots. "I like to show golfers the
trouble," he said. "They can flirt with danger
all they want, but I'll do what I can to warn
them first." Underscoring the point, he added,
"if you see a hidden bunker on one of our
courses, it's only there to save the player from
ending up off the course." Phelps much prefers
to stress strategy, not length. More
information about Phelps Golf Course Design is
available at
http://www.phelpsgolfdesign.com/
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