Create, design, and provide construction plans for a new 18-hole course from Great Dunes and Oleander Golf Courses. This RFP includes a professional review of the original Great Dunes Course Plans with restoration emphasis. Additionally, elements must be explored to create a new 18-hole experience appropriate to the original historic Great Dunes Course design.

The Great Dunes golf course is the oldest surviving golf course on Jekyll Island and represents several eras of golf associated with both the private Jekyll Island Club as well as the State era of management and is currently under consideration to be listed under the National Register of Historic Places. This possibility should be understood and may contribute to the overall design development. Conceptualize and design for construction drawings of a complete restoration of the front nine of Oleander and the Great Dunes golf courses will be combined to create a new 18-hole championship golf course. The architecture will follow as closely as possible the original design,
bringing the course back to a links-style golf course. The new Great Dunes Course would reestablish the initial strategy created by Walter Travis and his predecessors Willie Park (Olympia Fields) and Karl Keffer (1913 Dunes Course) and generate needed marketing for the
resurgence of golf on Jekyll Island. Walter Travis's type design strategy would be incorporated within nine holes of the current Oleander course, resulting in a "classic" style course.

This design and construction project will be the most significant undertaking of the golf improvement plan because of the extensive amount of work to be accomplished. With modern drainage, irrigation, and turfgrasses being utilized, the course should offer an exciting but challenging test for all levels of golfers. In addition, a new practice area would be designed, including a short game area and putting course.