Poppy Hills is closed as of March 11, 2013 as it undergoes a renovation that will:
Look for Poppy Hills version 2.0 to debut in the spring of 2014.
It’s been a little more than three months since the Poppy Hills renovation began. Want to know what has been done on each hole so far? Click on each link to see all the posts about each hole: 1st hole: 2nd hole: 3rd hole: 4th hole: 5th hole: 6th hole: 7th hole: 8th hole: 9th ...
The new ninth green has been roughed in, which gives us a better idea of where it will be positioned. Until now, all we could tell was that the new green would be well left of where the old green sat. (The red stake above shows where the new green was planned to be built.) ...
The eighth hole was one of the sharpest doglegs on the course. But with the back tees swinging to the left (closer to the seventh green), and the new eighth green moving some 30 yards left, it will be a much straighter hole. “That hole has gone from being a very sharp dogleg left to ...
When the Robert Trent Jones II design team was deciding how it wanted to reroute the back nine, it looked closely at the corner of Nos. 14-16. One of the main goals of the renovation was to reduce doglegs. Several solutions were considered for the sharp dogleg-left 14th hole, including playing it straight to the ...
The 15th hole will be a little more difficult the next time you see it. The championship tees will play at 235 yards, nearly 30 yards longer than the previous version. You can see the new tee box tucked into the woods above. It will be the longest par 3 on the course, 16 yards ...
Poppy Hills superintendent Manny Sousa walked us through the new par-3 sixth hole, which will play 190 yards from the championship tees. The hole will have a new look, with a natural sandy area leading up to an opened up green. While the new green will have some flair, it won’t be as dramatic as ...
There is now space for the 10th green. For the first two months of the renovation, a red stake that was stuck up against a row of trees and the cart path represented the green location, as you can see below (click on the picture to enlarge it). But the backdrop for the green looks ...
The par-4 third hole was the first to be sand capped, as you can see from this view of the tee shot. Below is a view from the fairway. Every hole will be coated with a 5-inch layer of sand to improve drainage, which will also help the course play firmer and faster. You can ...
To this point, natural sandy areas have only been a concept on routing maps. Space has been blocked off for them throughout the course, but it was difficult to visualize them. Well, now we have our first evidence of natural sandy areas, and a hint of what they will look like. Above is a photo from the par-3 ...
NCGA CEO Lyn Nelson talks about the progress of the renovation, what holes she is looking forward to playing, and the future of Poppy Hills...
