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Anaconda, Montana (August 15, 2016) – Old Works Golf Course in Anaconda, Mont., will celebrate its 20th anniversary on September 28th with a golf tournament and post-round reception featuring golf legend and Old Works course designer Jack Nicklaus. The 20th anniversary tournament and reception will celebrate how the small town of Anaconda, Mont., with the help of the Golden Bear’s design and later, the management of Troon, have taken a Superfund remediation project and turned it into one of Golf Digest’s Top-100 daily fee golf courses in the United States.
“Old Works is such an amazing success story,” said Mark Savoy, general manager of Old Works. “We invite folks from all over to help us celebrate two amazing decades on September 28 by attending our 20th anniversary golf tournament and reception with Jack Nicklaus.”
Reborn on what was the site of Anaconda’s century-old copper-smelting plant, Old Works is the first course ever designed and built on a Federal EPA Superfund site. Jack Nicklaus, who was lauded by the EPA for his innovative efforts, incorporated historic relics into his design of Old Works. Granite slabs from the old mill line the banks of trout-filled Warm Springs Creek, protecting the 10th green. Massive stone furnaces border the third fairway, while the 150-foot flue provides a dramatic backdrop to the fourth green. All bunkers are filled with black slag sand—the by-product of the copper-smelting process—giving the course its unique and signature look.
“The decision to build a golf course there was a terrific, money-saving use of the property, and it was a special opportunity to create a source of pride, employment and potential revenue to a town that was struggling due to unemployment from the loss of Anaconda mining,” Nicklaus said. “Old Works brought tourism to the town; it brought jobs to the town; and in some way, it brought new life. It was a very worthwhile project all around. And, we were able to construct the project for about half the cost that it would have taken to clean up the site, due to regulations.”
Old Works is currently rated the No. 2 golf course in Montana by Golfweek Magazine and is also featured in Golf Digest’s “America’s 100 Greatest Public Courses” list, making the course a must-play for golfers traveling near or through Montana. Moreover, Old Works is an affordable opportunity to play a Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf Course—only the third municipal golf course in Nicklaus Design’s U.S. portfolio of more than 200 courses.
Managed by Troon and owned by Anaconda Deer Lodge County, Old Works is an 18-hole, par-72, public course spread across 220 acres. The club’s unique three-hole "Little Bear" course has two par 4s and a par 3, and is popular with families and golfers short on time. Little Bear greens fees are just $5 per three-hole round. The Old Works practice facility includes a driving range with multiple target greens, chipping and putting greens and two practice bunkers.
About the Nicklaus Companies and Nicklaus Design
The Nicklaus Companies is dedicated to promoting excellence in the game of golf, preserving its great traditions and growing the game. For nearly 50 years, the mission of the Nicklaus Companies has been to enhance the golf experience, and to bring to the national and international consumer, golf-related businesses and services that mirror the high standards established in the career and life of Jack Nicklaus. In 2007, Jack Nicklaus partnered with Howard Milstein to help further the growth of the company and to realize the full potential of the brands and branded businesses. Howard Milstein is Chairman of New York Private Bank & Trust and is actively involved in the Nicklaus Companies, serving as Co-Chairman along with Jack.
Jack Nicklaus began his career in golf course design in 1969 and from there, the world’s leading golf course design firm was born. Today, there are 405 Nicklaus Design golf courses located in 41 countries and 39 states. Of those, Jack Nicklaus has been involved in the design of 296 courses. No fewer than 140 Nicklaus Design courses have hosted close to 900 professional tournaments or significant national amateur championships worldwide. As many as 100 Nicklaus Design courses have appeared in various national and international Top-100 lists. Among his numerous course design honors, Nicklaus was recognized most recently as 2014 Architect of the Year by Golf Magazine. The firm currently has projects under construction or under development in 22 different countries.
Other products and services include development of golf and real estate communities, and the marketing and licensing of golf products and services. Nicklaus-branded products have been marketed worldwide since 1962. The Jack Nicklaus and Golden Bear-branded lifestyle collection of products includes: ice cream; restaurants; beverages; wine; golf academies; home appliances; flooring; cabinets; apparel; footwear; and golf equipment. For more information on the Nicklaus Companies, please visit www.nicklaus.com.
