We’re proud to have golf course designer Joe T. Jemsek spend some time talking with us for our latest Golf Talk Interview. Besides being a dashingly handsome and very cool guy (check out those shades!), Joe has worked on over a hundred golf courses both here in the United States and also overseas. His insights into golf course design were enlightening and made for a great interview.
The interview took place at Pine Meadow Golf Course in Mundelien, Illinois and we’d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone at Pine Meadow for there assistance and hospitality in making this interview possible.
In part 4, Joe talks about what his personal philosophy of golf course design is and what he tries to achieve on all of his projects.
We’re proud to have golf course designer Joe T. Jemsek spend some time talking with us for our latest Golf Talk Interview. Besides being a dashingly handsome and very cool guy (check out those shades!), Joe has worked on over a hundred golf courses both here in the United States and also overseas. His insights into golf course design were enlightening and made for a great interview.
The interview took place at Pine Meadow Golf Course in Mundelien, Illinois and we’d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone at Pine Meadow for there assistance and hospitality in making this interview possible.
In part 3, Joe talks about what are the greatest challenges he’s faced on the over 100 golf course projects he’s worked on, the art of balancing playability and challenge, his favorite type of hazard, the teamwork involved in any project, advice to beginning course designers, his second favorite sport and his current projects.
We’re proud to have golf course designer Joe T. Jemsek spend some time talking with us for our latest Golf Talk Interview. Besides being a dashingly handsome and very cool guy (check out those shades!), Joe has worked on over a hundred golf courses both here in the United States and also overseas. His insights into golf course design were enlightening and made for a great interview.
The interview took place at Pine Meadow Golf Course in Mundelien, Illinois and we’d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone at Pine Meadow for there assistance and hospitality in making this interview possible.
In part 2, Joe talks about what to consider when designing or renovating a course, the importance and conservation of water, climate’s effect on golf course design, where the next generation of great golf courses will be, his favorite courses and the experience of playing the Old Course at Ballybunion.
We’re proud to have golf course designer Joe T. Jemsek spend some time talking with us for our latest Golf Talk Interview. Besides being a dashingly handsome and very cool guy (check out those shades!), Joe has worked on over a hundred golf courses both here in the United States and also overseas. His insights into golf course design were enlightening and made for a great interview.
The interview took place at Pine Meadow Golf Course in Mundelien, Illinois and we’d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone at Pine Meadow for there assistance and hospitality in making this interview possible.
In this part, Joe talks about what originally inspired him to become a designer, his apprenticeship to golf course architect Joe Lee. the difference between renovation and restoration, where he gets his inspiration from and the effect of landscape and site on designing a golf course.
Pine Meadow Golf Course in the northwest Chicago suburb of Mundelien, Illinois has a rich history to go along with it’s many contemporary honors. This 18 hole public course is widely known to be a demanding, but fair test for golfers of all skill levels.
Beautiful, old oaks and tall blue spruce line the heavily wooded course. Along with the ponds, lakes and creeks, they make Pine Meadow a particularly scenic and serene day of golf. The original course was designed by William Flynn, who also created the Glen View Club and the Mill Road Farm Course. Leased from the Archdiocese of Chicago in 1985 by Joe and Frank Jemsek, the course was remodeled by golf course designers Joe Lee, Rocky Roquemore and Joe T. Jemsek. After a substantial investment, Pine Meadow Golf Course was opened to the public in 1986 and to accolades from the golfing world.
And it’s really no wonder, the course is a beauty and a challenge. With five sets of tees, Pine Meadow gives golfers of all skill levels the opportunity to enjoy its 18 holes. The yardage from the back tees is 7,238 and the course has a rating of 74.8 and a slope of 138. Along with over 85 sand bunkers and 3 grass bunkers, Pine Meadow Golf Course features plenty of water hazards to challenge the shot making skill of the best scratch golfers.
When it opened in 1986, Pine Meadow Golf Course was heralded as America’s Best New Public Golf Course by Golf Digest magazine and the accolades haven’t stopped.In 2004 irt was rated “Extraordinary” as voted by players in an ESPN and Zagat survey. 2006 through 2008 Pine Meadow has been rated one of the Top 25 Courses in Illinois.
But honors aside, Pine Meadow Golf Course in Mundelien, Illinois delivers what golfers want… a great golf experience in a very beautiful, natural setting.
When we were out at Pine Meadow Golf Course in Mundelien, Illinois interviewing golf course designer, Joe Jemsek, we toured the course and snapped off a few pictures of a couple of our favorite holes. Although we think Pine Meadow is a pretty fine golf course from start to finish, we were particularly enamored of Holes 14 and 15. Here’s a couple of snap shots of those two great holes.
Hole 14, a Par 4, 393 yards from the back tees
Hole 14 looking back from the green.
Hole #15 from the forward tee.
Hole #15, looking towards the green.
We’ve got the par 4, 472 yard, Hole #3, the par 5, 541 yard, Hole #13 and the par 4, 393 yard, Hole #14 of Pine Meadow Golf Course on the Look Around Golf golf course directory and virtual golf course tour. You can see the Pine Meadow Golf Course virtual golf course tour here:
We had a great time filming this Golf Talk interview with course designer Joe Jemsek at Pine Meadow Golf Course in Mundelien, Illinois. Joe is the son of Frank Jemsek and has been involved in over 90 golf course projects from renovations, redesigns and start to finish builds. He gave us a great glimpse into the world of golf course design and we can’t wait to share it with you. We should be finished with the editing and have it up for you in about 2 weeks.
You can see the Pine Meadow Golf Course virtual golf course tour here:
Rated the No. 1 best “new public golf course in America” by Golf Digest in 1986, Pine Meadow Golf Course in Mundelien continues to be ranked among the top 10 public access golf courses in Illinois.
Pine Meadow Golf Course features five sets of tees from 7100, 6900, 6500, 6200, and 5200 yards to accommodate and challenge players of all skill levels. The course has 86 sand and 3 grass bunkers, and 220,000 square feet of tees and greens. 250-year old oak trees, 60-foot tall pines, maples and shagbark hickory trees border fairways.
For the golfer looking for a great day of golf in a beautiful natural setting Pine Meadow Golf Course is a great choice. Located in Chicago‘s northern suburb of Mundelien, Pine Meadow Golf Course also features one of the top-ranked practice facilities in the state of Illinois.
You can see the Pine Meadow Golf Course Virtual Golf Course Tour here:
