Her kids received full scholarships to attend private school. “It was like a lighthouse in a storm,” she said. Relocating to Kansas City to be close to her parents, Campbell-Goodnow was introduced to Folds of Honor.
In 2016, he perished during a training mission, leaving behind his wife and four children. Major Campbell received his gold wings in 2003 and was assigned to a base in Hawaii as a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter pilot. Her late husband, Marine Corps Major Shawn Campbell, was remembered with a photo. It’s a cool and amazing thing that this can help so many kids and families.”įor Kelli Campbell-Goodnow, the Memorial Wall at American Dunes was powerfully poignant. “Obviously you have to pay your staff and keep up the course, but everything above that goes straight to Folds of Honor. It isn’t inexpensive to tee it up at American Dunes - $150 for non-military guests and $100 for veterans and active service members, with reduced rates in the fall. While American Dunes is unquestionably handsome, playable and loaded with strategic options, the course features are only maybe fourth or even fifth in significance as it relates to the overall experience. “But Jack instinctively knew we had to build and design a golf course that is as good as the cause of Folds.” “We all had our lanes, right?” Rooney said. The new par-72 layout measures 7,213 yards and sports 30 formal bunkers, vast areas of exposed sand and hole after hole framed by dunes.Įven with Rooney’s experience at the highest level of playing and teaching golf, he left the design work to the Golden Bear. Nicklaus and his design team, led by Chris Cochran, yanked out hundreds of trees and let the native sand be the star.
The course always garnered respect, but it was what lay hidden underneath the hole corridors that offered world-class potential: sand, sand and more sand. Grand Haven GC, a 1965 design from Bruce and Jerry Matthews, had featured tree-bracketed fairways and a prime location, several hundred yards from the Lake Michigan shore.