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Renderings of the second golf course at Marcella (Utah), which it’s been announced will be designed by the team of King, Collins and Dormer.<\/p>\n
Marcella<\/p>\n
As the private club community of Marcella in northern Utah readies for the opening of its Tiger Woods-designed championship course, its membership now has even more to be excited about.<\/p>\n
Rob Collins and Tad King, the golf architects behind several of the most popular courses of the modern era, have been tabbed to build the second 18-hole course at Marcella along with their newest design partner, Trevor Dormer. The team at King Collins Dormer Golf Design will break ground this summer on Ambush, a mountain course with \u201cotherworldly terrain\u201d that is set along ridgelines overlooking the Heber Valley.<\/p>\n
Collins, who teamed with King to create Landmand in northeast Nebraska and the 9-hole Sweetens Cove in Tennessee (two courses that have developed cult followings in destination golf circles), says the Ambush site is one of the most diverse, dramatic and beautiful locations they\u2019ve ever seen for golf.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a very interesting site in that it is a blend of a few different places,\u201d Collins said. \u201cThe big vista mountain holes have a Landmand level of scale to them, but the quieter valley holes have a touch of a Midwest \u2018dunesey\u2019 feel to them. It is a fascinating contrast and will be a great deal of fun to build a course there.\u201d<\/p>\n
The team of King, Collins and Dormer are expected to break ground on the new course at Marcella \u2014 Ambush \u2014 later this summer.<\/p>\n
Marcella
\nA Unique Second Course<\/p>\n
The developers of Marcella<\/a> \u2013 the same team behind Black Desert Resort <\/a>in Utah \u2013 were looking for a second course design with its own unique personality and \u201cedge\u201d in turning to KCD Design. Jared Lucero, CEO of REEF Capital Partners and developer of Marcella at Deer Valley (one of Marcella\u2019s three locations), said they finalized a partnership shortly after meeting with King and Collins during a visit to Sweetens Cove.<\/p>\n \u201cIt became an inevitability that they would do Marcella because we hit it off so well,\u201d Lucero said. \u201cAnd we wanted the second course to be a little different thematically from the Tiger course.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cTheir courses deliver the kind of magic that makes people fall in love with the game all over again,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Sweetens Cove was the first design from Tad King and Rob Collins, opening in 2014 as a 9-hole course in South Pittsburg, Tennessee, and quickly developing a cult following for its unique design and approach. (Photo by Simon Bruty \/Sports Illustrated\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n Sports Illustrated\/Getty Images<\/p>\n Expressive design and memorable shot-making has become a hallmark of King and Collins, who in November 2024 brought aboard Dormer \u2013 a former associate for Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw for most of the past decade \u2013 as a partner. Dormer grew up in the mountains of Alberta, Canada, and that experience helped shape his early passion for golf architecture, studying those landscapes and envisioning how golf could be laid out on them.<\/p>\n \u201cRob has done an amazing job laying out the holes to perfectly capture the natural ebbs and flows of the terrain,\u201d Dormer said. \u201cThe scale of the golf course features will definitely match the aura of the landscape — bold and beautiful. In my opinion, you can’t have a small golf course on a property like this; it truly demands more.\u201d<\/p>\n Marcella\u2019s Membership<\/p>\n The opening and closing holes at Marcella’s second course, Ambush, play along a ridgeline while other holes during the middle of the round play down through a valley.<\/p>\n Marcella<\/p>\n The two courses will be exclusive to members at Marcella, which is a collaboration between REEF, Raintree Investment Corporation and Crosslake Partners. With the purchase of real estate in either Marcella at Deer Valley or Marcella at Jordanelle Ridge, buyers gain access to all three locations, featuring world-class golf and ski amenities. All 500 golf (and ski) memberships have already sold out, speaking to the demand for what will be the premier 36-hole private club experience in the American West.<\/p>\n In the states of Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho and Montana, only one other private community — The Glacier Club in northern Colorado — has two 18-hole courses built by different architects.<\/p>\n Marcella still has ski\/social memberships that provide limited access to the golf courses. Memberships are only available through purchase of real estate at Marcella, which spans three locations: Marcella at Deer Valley, Marcella at Jordanelle Ridge, and Marcella on Main, located in Old Town Park City. Entry points start at $750,000 at Marcella Jordanelle Ridge and $9 million at Marcella Landing at Deer Valley.<\/p>\n \u201cTogether, these courses form the core of something truly rare \u2014 a complete high-altitude golf and lifestyle community built for generations,\u201d said Raintree division president Cody Winterton.<\/p>\n Marcella\u2019s 36 Holes<\/p>\n A rendering of an aerial image of Marcella’s Ambush course which will make the club one of the biggest private clubs in the American West.<\/p>\n Marcella<\/p>\n Both golf courses are located on Jordanelle Ridge within the Marcella community, with the first tees of both located within about 1,000 yards of the Marcella clubhouse.<\/p>\n The Skyline Course designed by Woods and Beau Welling features 360-degree views of the Uinta Mountains, Jordanelle Reservoir, Deer Valley Resort and the Heber Valley. The Skyline routing takes advantage of the long-range views while incorporating intimate valleys between the ridges, and Woods has said he wants the course to be \u201cplayable for all\u201d \u2013 offering generous landing areas \u2013 while also presenting a strategic challenge. Some holes are expected to be ready for play by members this year.<\/p>\n Tiger Woods, middle, with Beau Welling (far left) during an early visit at Marcella. <\/p>\n TGR Design<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the Ambush Course will start and finish on a ridge, with a string of cliff-edge holes that boast panoramic views, while the middle of the round is characterized by a series of holes nestled into an Aspen-lined valley.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are massive amounts of variety, and it is quite different from many of the other mountain courses that I’ve seen in that it won’t get trapped in some of the limiting factors and thematic elements that you see on \u2018typical\u2019 mountain courses,\u201d Collins said. \u201cWhile it is extremely dramatic in spots, it also lends itself to a \u2018lay of the land\u2019 look and feel, which I think will be a great deal of fun to execute in the design and construction process.\u201d<\/p>\n Landmand Comparisons<\/p>\n Landmand, which is situated atop the Loess hills in Eastern Nebraska. <\/p>\n Erik Matuszewski<\/p>\n For those who have experienced the massive scale of Landmand — which sprawls across an incredibly hilly and dynamic 588-acre site in Nebraska \u2013 the mental images are inevitable. Collins says that\u2019s understandable.<\/p>\n \u201cLike Landmand, it is a very dramatic site with long vistas,\u201d Collins said. \u201cIf you took the 1st, 2nd and 18th holes at Landmand and placed them on top of a ridge at 7,500 feet overlooking a magnificent valley that also has 360 degree views of the Rockies, that would give you a pretty good idea of what we have to work with.\u201d<\/p>\n Despite being a mountain course, Ambush\u2019s routing will lend it to be walkable, with close green-to-tee transitions throughout. The key for the KCD team will be executing the grade changes to make walking feel comfortable. Fortunately, Collins says, the valley holes currently \u201cmeander at a nice grade back to the ridge for a dramatic finish.\u201d<\/p>\n Another rendering of the new course routing laid out by the team of Tad King, Rob Collins and Trevor Dormer.<\/p>\n Marcella<\/p>\n Another differing aspect for Ambush is that the course plans to have a fescue blend in the fairways, which Collins says will require the team to \u201cdesign and build to accommodate a lot of shots along the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n The activity at Marcella \u2013 along with new courses at several other private clubs (Wohali and Three Bridges) and the very early stages of potentially an even bigger project for REEF Capital near Black Desert Resort \u2013 have quietly made Utah one of the most active states in the country in terms of new golf development. Percentagewise, Utah is experiencing the third-highest population growth<\/a> behind only Florida and Texas.<\/p>\n \u201cI suppose it has to do with the fact that Utah is a wonderful place to live and work,\u201d said Collins. \u201cAnd people from all over the country are realizing that a state that has great weather in the summer along with some of the best winter sports anywhere in the world is a pretty damn good place to be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Renderings of the second golf course at Marcella (Utah), which it’s been announced will be designed by the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,25702,25701,25695,25696,25698,25700,101,25699,56,54,55,25697],"class_list":["post-45304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-golf-course-design","tag-kingcollinsdormer-design","tag-marcella","tag-marcella-golf","tag-marcella-king-collins","tag-new-golf-course","tag-sports","tag-tiger-woods-marcella","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-utah-private-golf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}