The USGA's 2011 Herbert Warren Wind Book Award winner
The ebook edition.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011 at 08:23 PM Thanks to Robert Nelson for sending in these fall, 2011 shots of the Horse Course at Prairie Club.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 09:43 AM Martin Kaufmann reports for Golfweek.com on changes to the management style and courses for year two. No changes to the Horse Course.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010 at 07:58 AM David Holland writes about the Prairie Club for South Central Golfer.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 03:15 PM The former Golf Magazine editor writes about his visit.
Tuesday, June 8, 2010 at 08:22 AM 
Martin Kaufman profiles the Prairie Club in this piece and founder Paul Schock in a companion story.
Friday, March 19, 2010 at 04:35 PM 
Golf Course Industry has the most extensive story on the announcement of the fourth course design.
Martin Kaufmann at Golfweek.com broke the news.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008 at 08:32 AM 
Ron Whitten writes about the future of course design and includes this in his November, 2008 Golf Digest feature story:
With respect to Hanse, Doak and even Kidd, whose new Castle Course at St. Andrews likewise features free-form tees, none of their creations is as radical as Charlton's at Chambers Bay. His tees aren't conventional wide pads linked by undulations. His are narrow paths, where golfers have to search for a level lie. His intent is to aid average players in executing decent tee shots. Choose a slight uphill lie to get the ball airborne, a little downhill spot to keep it under the wind, or a sidehill slope to impart more hook or slice. It's a remarkably clever concept, but we suspect by the time the U.S. Open rolls around, the USGA will insist on lots of big, flat tee boxes for the pros.
Hanse has adapted the basic pick-your-lie concept on a new 10-hole par-3 course he's designing for The Prairie Club, a multiple-course project near Valentine, Neb. His layout will feature no tees, just expanded fairways with lots of dips and rolls in them. His idea is, each round will be based on the basketball game Horse, where the guy who wins the previous hole gets to chose the stance, lie and shot that must be attempted on the next hole. (To really integrate the idea into golf, Hanse ought to call his game Gorse.)
Friday, October 3, 2008 at 04:32 PM 
Helen Olsson profiles a trip to Valentine, Nebraska and specifically the Niobrara River. There is also this slide show, including images of the Snake River Falls, Valentine National Wildlife Refuge and other scenes.
Monday, September 29, 2008 at 11:47 AM Stu Pospisil offers this update on The Prairie Club for the Omaha World Herald.
Friday, September 26, 2008 at 09:22 AM Gil has cooked up a rendering of the Horse Course plan. Because it'll be up to the golfer with the honor to decide where to tee off, we offer yardages summarizing the range of distances possible:
1: 60-90 yards
2: 50-115 yards
3: 30-85 yards
4: 65-125 yards
5: 45-105 yards
6: 40-125 yards
7: 55-110 yards
8: 40-105 yards
9: 60-140 yards
10: 40-125 yards
Total: 485-1,125 yards
Click to enlarge:
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Monday, September 8, 2008 at 09:49 AM A few more images from August, 2008 of the Prairie Club's Horse Course.
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2nd hole approach and green growing in. Approximate 100 yard hole depending on where you tee off, can be played with any club to a green with hints of the Old Course's 12th tiering.
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4th tee view, far left tee. Approximately 115 yards.
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View from the rear 10th tee, 105 yards playing over the 9th green. Other teeing options are to the right, green is set between bunkering.
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5th tee view. Green sits on other side of bunker "blowout" with yardage ranging from 50-105 yards depending on tee and hole placement
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1st hole tee view, far left side option. Tee is very large and angle/distance options are greatly varied.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008 at 10:12 AM Monday, July 14, 2008 at 11:03 AM Six years after our first visit to Valentine, Nebraska, we've begun construction of a 10-hole short course at The Prairie Club. You can get the full story on the development in this Wade Merry piece from the Argus Leader.
In the coming months I'll be posting photos, updates and some "video diaries" on the design and construction of "The Horse Course."
In the meantime, here are a few images of it in the early stages of construction and prior to seeding. Click on the images to enlarge...
First tee view of green 85 yards away, prior to seeding (click to enlarge image)
Approach to 2nd green prior to seeding (click to enlarge)
View from left 4th tee, green site rough shaped in (click to enlarge)
Rear view of 4th looking back toward tee (click to enlarge)
View from picnic spot behind 4th green (click to enlarge)
View of the 9th green from tee approximate 70 yards away, (click to enlarge)
View of 10th green and bunkers from 9th green, prior to seeding (click to enlarge)