Improvements to the clubhouse and course were completed just in time for the club in Washington state to host its tenth Boeing Classic. Three new dining spaces were added and new drainage was built into the Jack Nicklaus-designed golf course.
TPC at Snoqualmie Ridge, in Snoqualmie Ridge, Wash., 30 miles east of Seattle, staged its tenth Boeing Classic in August, two weeks after completing renovations to both its clubhouse and golf course.
The clubhouse benefitted from enhancements to the dining and event spaces just in time for the Champions Tour event, which was won this year by Scott Dunlap in a playoff against Mark Brooks.
Three new dining spaces—the Grille, the Wine Room, and the outdoor deck—were added, while the interiors were revamped with reclaimed wood floors and hand-blown glass accents.
Dallas-based Thiel & Thiel, which specializes in hospitality and clubhouse design, was commissioned to complete the project and used stone, hardwoods, and leather in an effort to create an elegant but comfortable look and feel.
The Jack Nicklaus-designed golf course, opened in June 1999, had 6,000 linear feet of new drainage built into the fairways, which will also benefit as the club’s new deep-tine machine is used to help improve surface drainage.
Snoqualmie Ridge’s new General Manager, Ben Wood, said he has been impressed with the club’s new owner, Arcis Equity Group, which bought the club from BrightStar Golf in July 2013. Three months after Arcis took over, Seattle-based Columbia Hospitality was hired to operate the club.
“In my years in the industry, I’ve never seen a commitment to quality with this type of investment in a club in the first year of ownership,” Wood, a former professional golfer, said about the renovation and other efforts that the new ownership and management has been making to position Snoqualmie Ridge as one of the most sought- after memberships in the Pacific Northwest.
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