Architects Will Say Anything Vol. 302
Thursday, November 18, 2004 at 11:15 AM Las Vegas Sun reporter Adam Candee sat down with Jack Nicklaus to plug the Coyote Springs development outside of Las Vegas (it’s being compared to Desert Mountain…in other words, it’s out in the middle of nowhere). Two of Nicklaus’s more interesting answers:
Sun: Since you first got into the design business, how has your design evolved?
JN: It just continually changes. It continually changes ideas as you learn to develop. I suppose when I first started, I could do golf courses one, maybe one and a half different kinds of ways. I say one and a half meaning I was trying to do something else and I wasn't sure I could do it. I can do golf courses now probably a dozen -- at least -- different ways.
Different ways to put things together, make everything look different -- that's something you learn and you do it.
Sun: Going back to Coyote Springs for a second, the majority of majors
are played in the East. Is this the kind of facility that could bring,
say, a PGA Championship out West?
JN: My guess is the answer would be very definitely yes. I would be very surprised if it didn't.
Oh yes, a PGA in Las Vegas in August. Definitely no!
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