Showing posts with label golf. Show all posts
Showing posts with label golf. Show all posts

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Old Barn, Spring Creek Ranch Golf Club...and a favor...

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Thanks to those of you who wrote me for such a warm welcome back! I have a new job which takes a bit of time each week, but I hope to be blogging as regularly as possible. I enjoy sharing the Memphis area with you, and I'm glad that you enjoy seeing it, too!

Spring Creek Ranch Golf Club, which was designed by Jack Nicklaus, was formerly a cattle ranch by the same name. Some of the recently-developed residential streets surrounding the club are named after the bulls that resided here when it was ranch land. This is one of the old barns remaining on the Spring Creek Ranch property, and I'm not sure that preserving the barn structures is on their long-term plan. I wanted to have a photo to serve as a record of this property's history, and I thought that the barn looked especially pretty with the goldenrod (and ragweed...achoo!) in full bloom.

And now for the favor! Do any of you have any photos of the artists' life-size horses that have been around the Germantown area since the Germantown Charity Horse Show? We came back from the MS State/Vanderbilt football game tonight and passed through Germantown, and they're gone! We were going to take photos of them on Sunday and Tuesday this week, when we had some extra time to visit each site, and share them here. SO disappointing! If any of you have photos (of the horses, of anything else in the Memphis area) that you'd like to share here, I'd be glad to post them and credit you for the photo. If you do, please leave a message here. Thanks!

Saturday, May 3, 2008

Spring Creek, Spring Creek Ranch Golf Club

Spring Creek, Spring Creek Ranch Golf Club

This is Spring Creek, for which Spring Creek Ranch Golf Club is named. This Jack Nicklaus-designed course opened in 1999, and is rumored to be the possible future home course for the annual Stanford-St Jude golf tournament.

This course is also a member of the Aububon Conservation Reserve with 330 acres used for wetlands and a natural habitat and ecosystem for wildlife.

Spring Creek Ranch was once a very large cattle farm, and the course design (by Jack Nicklaus) has made wonderful use of the natural beauty of this land.

Thursday, January 10, 2008

John Daly's Restaurant and Bar




One of our favorite casual eating places in the area is John Daly's (located just over the Memphis city limit line, in Mississippi). Yes, this restaurant and bar is owned by John Daly, the famous golfer who also lives in Memphis, and is every bit as spontaneous and fun as he is. Occasionally you will see him there, raising money for charity with his band (he golfs, and plays music, too!). The atmosphere is always perfect for having fun with family and friends, and the food---which ranges from burgers and appetizers to wonderful steaks---is consistently great. Check out the menu listed in the link above...yum! If you enjoy seeing sports/golf memorabilia, it is filled with some of John's items and photos from his years in golf, as shown above (you can click on photos to enlarge).