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“TO ME, ROSS WAS A GREAT ARTIST. YOU WOULDN’T TAKE A PICASSO PAINTING AND CHANGE IT.” 1941 Broadmoor Invitational The Legendary East “What we’ve done on the East Course is to restore it to the way it was originally in 1918,” says Miller. “Over time, because of irrigation, maintenance, or somebody who just didn’t like where a bunker was, things got changed. To me, Ross was a great artist. You wouldn’t take a Picasso painting and change it. “On the course you see these subtle mounds out in the middle of nowhere. Ross did that because he was pushing dirt with a mule and a plow, and he couldn’t load up the dirt in a truck and take it somewhere. So after he’d dug a bunker, he might take dirt just 30 yards and create a mound. That is cool stuff to me.” 48 The Broadmoor Magazine | 2011 • 2012 Sometimes, too, when they dug a bunker they would just throw the dirt up on what was to be the green. Consider all those turtleback shaped greens at Ross’ other classic course, Pinehurst No. 2. But to examine what has changed on The Broadmoor’s East Course, one must also bring another legend- ary golf-course designer, Robert Trent Jones, Sr., into the discussion. In 1952, The Broadmoor hired Jones to expand the existing 18 holes Ross designed and to create a new East Course. To do that, Jones designed a new nine holes through an upper level of the land on the far south side of Cheyenne Mountain Boulevard and also put his personal stamp on how the lower Ross holes played. That created, for the next 50 years, an East Course that looked more like Jones’ work. Bring in Ron Forse, president of Forse Design, Inc., and a member of The Donald Ross Society. Forse has performed more than 80 resto- rations of classic golf courses, and has been involved in other Ross renovations. The Broadmoor team started with research. They had the hand- drawn architect’s plans from 1917 and photos going back to the early 1900s. From there, they assembled some 1937 aerial photos taken by the U.S. Government. Forse says that even golf grill photos, sketches