Kinloch Golf Club
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Opened in April 2001, Kinloch Golf Club is already the talk among the golfing cognoscenti. A Golf Digest reviewer who has never before awarded a golf course a perfect rating, reportedly has given Kinloch 10 s on all ratings criteria. In a metro area not generally regarded as golf rich, Kinloch is a treasure that is putting Richmond on the golfing map.
Kinloch is a private equity golf club with a limit of 300 members (as of August 2001 there were 175 members). Resident, non resident, corporate and national memberships are available at remarkably modest rates. For example, non resident members who live within a certainpatagonia kids& retro-x vest - special2 zone outside the metro Richmond area have an initiation fee of only $65,000 and annual dues of $3500; Initiation fees for national memberships are only $35,000 with annual dues of $2,000. Memberships are by invitation only.
Every aspect of the club, from the golf course and physical complex to the service and amenities, is world class at Kinloch, yet the theme of the club is understated elegance. There is nothing flamboyant about Kinloch, just a polished professionalism that speaks low while exhibiting a quiet confidence that it knows few other golf clubs in the world can rival it in quality.
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The 20,000 square foot clubhouse (scheduled for completion in 2002) will feature plush carpeting, a modest sized, comfortable locker space, a restaurant offering world class fare, and a pro shop stocked with top of the line in apparel and equipment. The clubhouse, which has a Tudor style exterior design, overlooks the 70 acre lake, the centerpiece of the 274 acre property and the inspiration for the name Kinloch, which in the Old Counpatagonia better sweater 365try means by the lake .
The lake, which also services a fishing club at one end, was built some 10 years earlier by Richmond real estate scion C. patagonia down jacket packable reviewB. Robertson, who first envisioned a residential development on the site. Robertson later scrapped that idea in favor of building a daily fee golf course. One day, he invited Marvin Vinny Giles out to visit the site. Giles, a Richmond sports agent and world class amateur golfer, took one look and persuaded his friend that they should do something special with it. Subsequently, the two formed a partnership with a third principal, Manassas golf facility owner Charles Staples, and the idea of Kinloch was born. It is not surprising that the heraldry of the club logo includes the cross at St. Amateur Championship. Giles won a critical Walker Cup match on the Road Hole at St. Amateur Champion. He also won the British Amateur Championship at Hoylake.
Giles was a consultant to Lester George, a Richmond based architect who, among many other projects, redesigned the Newport Bay Course at the Ocean City Golf Yacht Club and who was recently commissioned to redesign the DuPont Country Club course in Wilmington Del., site of the LPGA McDonalds Championship. Good friends, Giles and George pretty much saw eye to eye on all facets of the design.
During their many early site visits through the thick underbrush, they quickly realized they had a piece of property that fairly begged from a traditional layout, and that is what they produced. In routing and shaping the holes through the hardwoods and pines, and around and over the abundant streams on the site, the team preserved the natural look. Very little earth was moved, and all grading was tied to the original grading. There are no created mounds or other artificial features.
For the size of the project, we moved an incredibly small volume of earth, explains George. We fit the course to this exquisite piece of land because we wanted a natural look.
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