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In 1987, Stan Olsen brought in Tom Fazio to turn the abandoned limestone quarries, with their sheer 80-foot cliffs plunging into the lakes, into the Quarry Course, not just because Fazio was America’s premier golf course designer but also because he shared Olsen’s passion about nature and ecology.
While he went about shaping the Quarry Course at Black Diamond into what just about every golf magazine would list at the top of their “America’s Best” and “World’s Greatest” courses, Olsen would build “Florida’s Best Golf Community” around it, with luxurious yet unobtrusive homes thoughtfully tucked away into wooded landscape.
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Tom Fazio
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As one of the most respected golf course architects in the world, Tom Fazio’s achievements include the venerable Course 6 at Pinehurst, Oak Hills in Rochester, N.Y., Ventana Canyon in Arizona, Shadow Creek in Las Vegas, Wild Dunes and Wild Dunes Yacht Harbor in South Carolinas. Not to mention the East Course at Hershey, the National Golf Club of Canada, the Butler International and Inverness in Illinois. And the list goes on.
But perhaps his greatest achievements lie at Black Diamond. In his own words “I had to create two distinctly different, yet equally challenging and memorable, golf courses on the same property,
and I did.”
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