the other guy was doing, to make sure we were going in different directions.” The two courses noticeably intersect
Doak and Coore-Crenshaw have built courses on the same property before—Pacific Dunes (Doak) and Bandon Trails (Coore-Crenshaw) in Oregon; Barnbougle Dunes (Doak) and Lost Farms (Coore-Crenshaw) in Australia—but never with such synergy. “Neither one of us wanted the other guy to say, ‘Aw, I got the short end of the deal,’ “ Doak said. But once the balanced and equally
intriguing routings were agreed upon, the good friends and leaders of the modern minimalism movement en- joyed aspiring to one-up each other in a sort of golf architecture match play, building their courses simultaneously and competitively. “I think it brought out the best
work in each of us,” Doak said. “Bill and I tried to let the theme
of the two courses evolve during construction, instead of choosing in advance how they would be different. We would always take a peek at what
throughout your round, and the sight of a different colored flag (blue and yellow vs. red and white) perched atop a 10-story sand dune, or placed behind a picturesque pond, only increases your curiosity and anticipation of the holes you have yet to play. Two holes on each course were actu-
ally designed by the other architect, but they refuse to disclose which ones. Of course, it’s fun to venture a guess.
Which greens did Coore-Crenshaw tame on the Blue Course? And can you play Where’s Waldo, and identify which massive blowout bunkers Doak snuck onto the Red Course? Architecture credits also belong to
the shovel-tusked mastodons, hornless rhinos, humpless camels and 30-foot crocodiles that once roamed Stream- song, as well as prehistoric marine life such as the now-extinct megalodon, a notorious giant shark whose gaping jaws greet guests at the lodge. Thanks to mil- lions of years of glacial activity that both doubled Florida’s size and shrunk it to
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just 10 miles wide, these creatures left behind substantial phosphate rock deposits, triggering a mammoth mining operation of more than 200 companies in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Over time, winds shaped the abandoned sand piles into dunes, and native grasses covered them. The low- lying excavated areas eventually filled in as lakes that alligators now inhabit. A descendent of one of those early
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mining companies is Mosaic, the world’s leader in phosphate crop nutri- ents. One of the largest landowners in Florida, Mosaic is just now jumping into golf, and decided that the 16,000
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