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CRCCE Update
Coral Ridge Country Club
Gets a “Course” Lift
By Ruth Currie
ince April, the CRCC 18-hole Championship course course architect himself known as the “The Open Doctor”
built by famed golf course architect Robert Trent Jones has been leading the restoration of his father’s design.
Shas been closed for a $9 million restoration. Coral Since its’ opening in January 1955, Coral Ridge has been
Ridge has been the premier golf course of Fort Lauderdale
for 65 years and is set to reopen later this fall with new a jewel of the Coral Ridge community. Built on the original
greens, updated irrigation and improved drainage but with site of the defunct 1920’s Floranada course (a combination
the same playability and challenge as a tribute to the man of names Florida and Canada), the land had laid in wait
whose vision was carved into the community. The best part until Jones and members of the Coral Ridge Golf Course,
of the story is that Rees Jones, son of RTJ and a famed golf Inc. saw the “ghost course” and pursued the lease of the
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