Go back to 2007, '08, '09 - everything was sort of iffy as to what would happen there. I couldn't be more proud of Zach and his crew. The time and effort and the days (the crew) put in - they're some of the hardest working guys I've ever met in my life. "When Andy Ziegler came in they got a chance to show what they can do - they got the proper amount of money," Fry says. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Ziegler's first moves included doubling the maintenance budget and building a state-of-the-art maintenance facility. In October of 2009, Wisconsin businessman Andy Ziegler, chairman of Artisan Partners Asset Management, bought the course. When the ownership change happened… I was very grateful." "Conditions of the course were not acceptable to my standards, or I think to most golfers' standards. We had very constrained resources, a small staff and a big property," Reineking recalls. "By September of 2009 we were in a situation. Assistant Superintendent Zach Reineking, 28 years old at the time, took over the position and wondered what was next. Then the superintendent abruptly left the course. Maintenance necessitates money, something the then-owner of the course was running out of. "They had a very difficult time because they basically didn't have enough of a maintenance budget, money was very tight. "It would be accurate to say the turf conditions were suffering," says Dana Fry, ASGCA, part of the design team for the Wisconsin course. Looking at it today, it's hard to believe that back in 2008, Erin Hills, site of the 117th U.S. ![]() ![]() But, once upon a time, it wasn't the happiest place for turf as Golfdom's editor Seth Jones reports Beautiful Erin Hills is ready to host Wisconsin's first-ever U.S.
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