The Patriot Golf Club

Coming on the heels of their acclaimed Chambers Bay in Washington State, The Patriot was a major changeup for architects Robert Trent Jones II and Bruce Charlton. Rather then molding a course from sand on a rectangular gravel mine next to Puget Sound, The Patriot was cut from a massive and heavily forested property northeast of Tulsa. The ecclectic topography sliding up and down over ravines and wetlands offered an enticing opportunity to employ it in bold ways, and the design evolved into an aggressive engagement of land and turf. Creeks are used to bisect numerous fairiways, landing zones expand and contract between 30 and 80 yards, greens are buffeted by bunkers and streambeds and there are even alternate par-3 sixth holes, a tactic Jones also used at The Raven at Sandestini in Florida.