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Pioneer Pointe
Project Info
Pioneer Pointe
Verona, Wisconsin
www.pioneerpointegolf.com
Pioneer Pointe Golf Course is the centerpiece of a new housing project being built on the site of the former Tumbledown Trails Golf Course. Working with father and son developers Jeff and Kyle Haen, who also own and operate the nearby Hawks Landing Golf Club, Todd Quitno has designed a new golf experience that is completely unique to the Madison, WI, market. For starters, it is a 13-hole par-3 course, but not the kind of wedge and putter pitch-and-putt layout that the label might suggest. Holes range in length from around 100 yards to a much more muscular 280 yards, requiring use of every club in the bag. The architecture is inspired by famous golf holes and “templates” from around the world, including such icons as the Road, Redan, Biarritz, Lion’s Mouth, Double Plateau (shown), Punchbowl, Short, Eden and even a nod to the 7th at Pebble Beach.