Skywater over Horseshoe Bay Spotlight, July 2010

As the mercury rises, so does the activity at Skywater! Our Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf Course, Summit Rock, is looking green after crews began sodding the course. We also highlighted a very neat portion of Skywater, a 103-acre parcel of land featuring a 4,557-square foot home called The Ranch at…

Read More »  |  July 19, 2010  |  Newsletters

Nicklaus focuses on building courses now

HORSESHOE BAY — Over two busy weeks in June, the blue-accented Gulfstream that Jack Nicklaus owns flew from China to Nebraska to the Hill Country, where it remained for five hours before arc ing east toward Florida. Nicklaus supervised his many golf-course designs in Asia, but the day he spent…

Read More »  |  July 11, 2010  |  News

Musings with the Bear, Volume 4

Jack Nicklaus finished his four-hour site visit last week at his Summit Rock project in Horseshoe Bay with just enough time to be back in Florida for dinner. On the short, late-afternoon drive to the airport, where the pilots had the Nicklaus Gulfstream ready for launch, Nicklaus told a few…

Read More »  |  July 01, 2010  |  News

Musings with the Bear, Volume 3

I’m in the process, and that’s a word I’ll use loosely, of writing about Jack Nicklaus — his legacy, his evolving identity, his course-design business and his choice to decline an invitation from the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews to participate in the four-hole exhibition of former…

Read More »  |  June 28, 2010  |  News

Musings with the Bear, Volume 2

I share quotations from the recent Golf Digest compilation  of Nicklaus’s observations because they illuminate the four hours I spent with Nicklaus this week as he toured his design project in the Hill Country, Summit Rock at Skywater over Horseshoe Bay, an 18-hole private course that will be managed by…

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