The Pete Dye Course at French Lick Resort was named the 2017 Golf Course of the Year from the National Golf Course Owners Association, based on quality of golf course and management, and contributions to the local community and the game. Ak-Chin in Maricopa, Ariz., received the 2017 Player Development Award, which recognizes the property with the most successful player development program.

The Pete Dye Course at French Lick Resort, Canoe Brook CC, Chi Chi Rodriguez GC and Poppy Hills Golf Course will vie for the award that will be presented at the Golf Industry Show in Orlando in February 2017.

The reinvented Pebble Beach, Calif., golf course will reveal its renovation to the public, which also includes a remodeled golf shop, restaurant and practice facilities. The design by Robert Trent Jones Golf Course Architects incorporates just one cut of grass throughout the golf course, with all 18 greens redesigned, rebuilt, and reseeded with bentgrass.

A state-of-the-art irrigation system will be installed at the Pebble Beach, Calif., property by March, and the renovation’s contractor is using the method of hydro seeding on areas of the course. The Northern California Golf Association-owned property will also abandon 14.5 acres of previously irrigated turf, letting the area return to its native state, and ultimately use 20 percent less water annually.

After nearly two decades with its current rotation, The Pebble Beach National Pro-Am will have a new golf course in its rotation next year, with the Shore Course at Monterey Peninsula Country Club replacing Poppy Hills Golf Course. Both courses are in Pebble Beach, Calif. Monterey Peninsula, last used in the three-course rotation in 1977,…