The par-three fifth green and sixth tees at Cedar Rapids, which was completely redesigned by Ron Prichard after storms in 2020 felled thousands of trees Photo: Vaughn Halyard 69 Dozens, perhaps hundreds, of courses have been through a restoration project since the movement began to gain traction 40 years ago. But mostly restoration is a onceand-done thing: it is pretty rare for a course to be restored and, only a few years later, go under the knife again. Donald Ross came to eastern Iowa in 1915, early in his illustrious career, and extended the Cedar Rapids course, which had originally been nine, to eighteen holes. By 2010 though, as the centenary of Ross’s work approached, the course was in a mess. Like so many older American courses, it was choked with tree growth, and it had been for so long that the members knew nothing else. One year, the course emerged from winter in very poor shape. The greens were bad, and the fairways were infested with fungus and moss, a consequence of the poor light coverage caused by the tree growth. There was no consistency of
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