Brian Curley, one half of the Curley-Wagner design firm, has broken ground on a reconstruction of the former Wildcreek Golf Course in Sparks, Nevada, just outside of Reno, for new course owner First Tee – Northern Nevada.
Wildcreek was formerly owned by Washoe County, but it was transferred to First Tee in 2021, as part of a larger deal that saw the construction of the new Hug High School on part of the golf course site.
The sale of the land to the school district has helped to fund the golf course project, while First Tee has raised the remainder of the cost. The rest of the land occupied by the former 18-hole course, which also had a nine-hole course and practice range. The area will now be transformed into a full-sized nine-hole course, a nine-hole par-3 course and a three-hole practice facility, which will, innovatively, be built from repurposed storage containers…