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BRANSON NEWS: HOLLISTER, Mo. — Where do you start in describing all the big new things Johnny Morris has in the works for golfers in the Missouri Ozarks?
For starters, how about a prediction?
This area in the Ozark Mountains near the entertainment hub of Branson will likely become America’s next great golf destination. That’s what Morris, the founder of Bass Pro Shops, wants and there’s no reason to believe he can’t achieve yet another ambitious goal.
Pebble Beach in California, Doral in Florida, Pinehurst in North Carolina, Bandon Dunes in Oregon and Kohler in Wisconsin all could justifiably claim to be America’s best golf destinations today.
While they’re all special in their own way, keep your eye on the Missouri Ozarks. That’s where the activity is now, and by 2020 — when the Tiger Woods-designed Payne’s Valley course is up and running at full steam — the established hot spots will have a worthy challenger.
Reports of what is going on in the Missouri Ozarks have been coming out piecemeal, so the full impact of the projects that are underway hasn’t been felt yet. But it will be — and soon.
Here’s what has happened in the past few years:
Bison don’t affect play but they’re definitely in view off Buffalo Ridge Springs’ No. 1 fairway.
– Photo by Joy Sarver / lenziehmongolf.com
Alternative courses
Top of the Rock, a spectacular nine-hole par-3 course designed by Jack Nicklaus overlooking Table Rock Lake, opened at the PGA Tour Champions’ Legends of Golf event in June of 2014. Along with it came the unveiling of Buffalo Ridge Springs, a redesign effort on an 18-hole course known as Branson Creek by both original architect Tom Fazio and Morris himself. The revamped layout includes bison that roam on its outskirts.
On Aug. 31, 2017, the Gary Player-designed Mountain Top course …
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