Sacramento Bee writer Steve Pajak goes
"On Tour" at Trinitas
January 2010
"When was the last time you were excited just to see the next
hole on a golf course and it
didn't have anything to do with how you were playing? Play Trinitas
for the first time and
you'll have your answer." -- Steve Pajak
Sacramento Bee features Trinitas:
"Course owner's dream a nightmare to some"
January 2010
Excerpt: "...The idea to build a full-fledged destination resort came early in
2005, Nemee says. He forged
ahead because he says his proposal had the support of every
Calaveras County department
head and its supervisors.
A former county official – former Chief Building Official Ray Waller
– says he was present
during a meeting of county department heads in January 2005 in which
Nemee received the
go-ahead.
"We were asked if there was anything in the county code that
prohibited it," Waller recalled.
"When no one said anything, department heads were instructed to work
with Nemee, to help
him get through the application process.
"He had his marching orders and he followed them. Everybody in the
county from the top
down knew this was taking place. Some people at that meeting then
seemed to have
memory loss."
GolfJunkys.com Sits Down with Trinitas
Owner Mike Nemee to get the Full Story
Trinitas featured in NCGA Golf
Magazine
Although Trinitas
Golf Club has yet to open, the
NCGA
has featured Trinitas on the cover
of the Spring 2007 edition of NCGA Golf magazine. The
magazine is the official publication
of the Northern California Golf
Association and is the largest
regional golf magazine in the United
States.
The magazine is distributed to more than 180,000
members of the NCGA, and to more than 400 member golf clubs. The
accompanying feature story written by acclaimed golf writer, Ron
Salsig, outlines the story of how Trinitas was conceived by a
complete industry outsider, owner and architect, Mike Nemee.
Golf writer, Bob Fagan, has eloquently described the
story behind the construction of Trinitas Golf Club as "Golf's Field
of Dreams." The May 2007 edition of Golf Today likens the
voice that the Ray Kinsella character hears in the movie to the
vision that Mike Nemee saw when looking at an aerial photo of his
property.
Says Fagan, "Writing about the Trinitas Golf Club is
a fascinating and unusual story with easily three different story
lines; an unlikely course, built by a most unlikely person, with an
unusual business model poised to succeed."
Trinitas Ranked 40th in GolfWeek's
Best New Courses
October 2008, Bradley S. Klein, GolfWeek
Trinitas was rated number 40 in GolfWeek's Best New Courses
of 2008. GolfWeek's course rankings are based on input from
nearly 500 raters who regularly submit ballots based on 10 criteria.
Read the full article
here.
Economic Report: "The
Economic Impact of Trinitas Golf Resort"
Economic Report: "Economic
Considerations for Calaveras County"
Prepared for the Calaveras County Taxpayers Association
and the Calaveras County Board of Supervisors. December 6,
2008. Prepared by Cory Burnell, Burnell Wealth Management.
10 Questions with the Sierra Golfer
"Golf Guy" The first edition of a new regional golf magazine,
Sierra Golfer, features an interview with Mike Nemee.
Editor and Publisher, Rick Rider, a.k.a. "The Golf Guy" sits down
with the Trinitas CEO and Owner to find out a little more about the
project and just how it came to fruition.
Trinitas Joins Audubon International
Cooperative Sanctuary Program
Trinitas Golf Club has received certification in Environmental
Planning from the Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary Program for Golf
Courses (ACSP), an international program administered by Audubon
International designed to help landowners preserve and enhance the
environmental quality of their property.
