Golfing World visits Streamsong Resort in their latest GW Destination feature. We’ve seen them visit Royal Portrush in Ireland and Clearwater Bay in Hong Kong and this feature just adds to our already long list of bucketlist courses.
Streamsong Resort is a collection of two, going on three, golf courses and other recreation activities. Renowned golf architects Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw of Coore & Crenshaw, and Tom Doak of Renaissance Golf Design, worked side by side simultaneously to create two extraordinary 18-hole golf masterpieces — both of which were specifically designed to be walked and offer the ultimate golfing experience. Those are Streamsong Red (Coore & Crenshaw) and Streamsong Blue (Tom Doak), with Streamsong Black (Gil Hanse) set to open in the autumn of 2017.
Streamsong has been created from land recovered from a former phosphate mine. This seems to be a trend in golf architect with Chambers Bay, host of the 2015 US Open, being built on an old gravel mine and Cabot Links and Cabot Cliffs being built on an old abandoned coal mine. Through the land recovery process, sand dunes were created throughout the property at Streamsong, which make for dramatic rises in elevation and the perfect base for fairways and greens with a stunning variety in contour. This inspired combination of indigenous and man-made terrain, coupled with the imaginations of three of the finest golf course architects in the world—set the stage for two of the best links-style golf courses ever to be played. Take a look at the video above and find out what Streamsong is all about and what it has to offer. We can’t wait to check it out.
Source: Golfing World, Streamsong Resort
