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Article: A golf story: how some southern Indiana locals with a shoestring budget opened a championship golf course where their oft-flooded town once stood. (Cover Story).(English, Indiana)
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- Indiana Business Magazine
- Article date:
- April 1, 2003
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Move the town to higher ground. That's what the residents of English--population under 1,000--decided with federal help after periodic flooding from swelling creeks and the Little Blue River had ravaged their homes and businesses for generations. But what would become of their old town?
Cary Hammond offered his vision in a business plan drafted as part of a course at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business in 1988; he would transform the bones of his hometown into a golf course.
Fourteen years later, after buildings were demolished and the services of a world-renowned golf-course architect were arranged, an 18-hole championship course opened in ...