Lunchball
Landmand—Danish for ‘Farmer’—is what happens when you give the creative minds behind Sweetens Cove a massive plot of Nebraska loess and tell them to go absolutely nuclear. Rob Collins and Tad King didn’t just build a golf course here; they terraformed a distinct planet where the fairways are wide enough to land a 747 and the greens are measured in acres rather than square feet. This is ‘Modern Maximalism’ at its peak, a place where the scale of the architecture matches the endless horizon of the Great Plains.
But don’t let the sheer size fool you; this isn’t just a contest of power. It is a strategic playground where width is the defender and angles are everything. The course asks you to hit shots you’ve likely never attempted before, traversing contours that look like frozen waves of earth. It is a love letter to the boldest iterations of Golden Age architecture, resurrected with heavy machinery and a sense of humor that reminds us golf is supposed to be fun.
Comparison: 8th (Biarritz)
8th (Biarritz)
The American Biarritz
Yale Golf Course
Architectural Analysis
While Yale set the standard for the deep-swale Biarritz in America, Landmand's interpretation takes that drama and amplifies the scale to match the vast Nebraska landscape.