issue 4. 2020 | golf digest 21Courses PlayMichael Jordan’s
Playground
The NBA great’s
new course,
The Grove XXIII,
is a nod to
Shinnecock Hills
by derek duncan
“See that field over
there?” Bobby Weed
says, pointing toward
a few hundred acres
of grassland abutting
a distant tree line.
“That’s my ocean.”
Weed is standingoutside the nearly
completed clubhouse
at The Grove XXIII,
the uber-exclusive golf
course he built for his
client, NBA Hall of
Famer Michael Jordan
(it opened in the fall
of 2019), explaining
how Shinnecock Hills
became the inspiration
for the design even
though this particular
site—formerly a citrus