Golf Course Architecture - Issue 61, July 2020

83 double punchbowl, with the two hollows separated by a spine. The punchbowl concept comes from the twelfth hole at Wannamoisett and the ninth at Cohasset, but the double bowl is Forse and Nagle’s own doing! The enormous home green, the largest on the course, is heavily inspired by the finishing hole at Oyster Harbor Club on Cape Cod. The renovation work, which has been extremely well received by members and guests alike, has also transformed the condition of the course. With new turf, and corresponding little thatch, it can now be kept properly fast and firm (as well as no longer needing winter overseed, as mentioned above). Although the vegetation to be found around the course at CCO makes its Florida location fairly obvious, the course itself feels rather unlike typical Sunshine State golf – its core nature and the undulations on the greens introduced by Forse and Nagle, give it a proper authentic vintage feel, as befits a club of this age and history. After a hundred years, Donald Ross is now unarguably present at CCO. GCA The Orland Clipped By: The club has long believed that Ross visited and routed the course, but local papers reported Bendelow’s involvement Images: Courtesy of Country Club of Orlando