Friday, May 11, 2001 | 9:17 a.m.
Peter Benton's golf column appears Wednesday.
Construction crews from Golf Links are hard at it out in Henderson shaping and molding the new Concord golf course, which will be the second daily-fee layout at The Revere at Anthem (the Lexington being the first).
Designed by golf course architect Greg Nash along with the legendary Billy Casper, the course is scheduled to open in late spring 2002.
Nash said, "Like the Lexington course, this land is perfectly suited for a scenic and fun-to-play layout. The desert canyons provide natural elevation changes and will give golfers a feeling of seclusion. Holes one through four will play downhill through a canyon while holes five through nine will play back up the same canyon.
"The back nine, on the other hand, plays along ridge tops and down into multiple canyons and will be somewhat more open than the front nine. When it is all said and done, I truly believe that we will have another golf course worthy of national recognition here at The Reveere."
In designing the 7,100-yard, par-72 Concord course, Nash and Casper incorporated many of the same landscape features found throughout the beautiful Anthem community.
An assortment of more than 1,700 trees will be planted throughout the course, including hundreds of mondale pines, purple-plum, mesquite and ash trees.
A massive five-acre lake is being built on the 11th hole, the highest point on the golf course.
This lake will be the main holding tank for the course's irrigation.
Later this year, the ground crews are expected to begin grassing the layout with Bermuda on the fairways and bent grass on the greens.
Clay Meininger, the Revere's director of golf, stated: "This new course is taking shape quite nicely, and even though it is just dirt right now, you still get the sense that this layout is truly going to be something very special."
The Revere at Anthem is located 15 minutes from the Strip.
For further information, call Meininger at 259-4653.
Format for the event was each team played three nine-hole alternate shot, best-ball matches, with one point being received for each hole won.
Flight winners were:
Hagen Flight, J.A. Watson and Bob Spire, 29 1/2 points.
Sarazan Flight, Lloyd Manning and Lee Fair, 29 1/2.
Jones Flight, Richard Wagerman and Rick Lider, 28.
Nelson Flight, Bob Ozar and Ron Milrot, 31.
Snead Flight, Roger Miller and Brian Greenspun, 32 1/2.
Hogan Flight, Rich Groebel and Robert Baran, 31 1/2.
Palmer Flight, Charles Moore and David Roush, 34.
Player Flight, Ken Norton and Bob Hill, 27 1/2.
Nicklaus Flight, Bob Kik and Jeff Tobian, 28 1/2.
Brian Waters, with a drive of 324 yards, won the longest drive for 0-9 handicappers; Keith Gilbertsong's 308-yarder won it for the 10-15s and Russ Karlen prevailed with a drive of 275 yards to win for the 16-26 handicappers.
In the team putting competition, Bob Karlonas and Jim McGivern edged the pairing of Eric Petersen and Scott Garrison.
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