As the chairman of the board for Heritage Management Services, Craig Duling provides strategic direction for the property and business management enterprise. Prior to founding Heritage in 1988, he was an engineer for Lockheed Missiles and Space Company. In addition to his passion for collecting vintage and antique timepieces, Craig Duling enjoys playing golf. Each year Golf Digest puts together a list of the top 100 courses in the United States, as well as a shortlist of the top courses in each state. Below are its three highest-ranked courses in California. 1. Cypress Point Club - A 6,524-yard, par-72 course originally designed by Alister Mackenzie and Robert Hunter in 1928, Cypress Point is also ranked by Golf Digest as the third best course in the United States. Former United States Golf Association President Sandy Tatum once dubbed it the Sistine Chapel of golf. 2. Pebble Beach Golf Links - Ranked seventh on the publication's list of the top courses in America, Pebble Beach was designed in 1919 by Jack Neville and Douglas Grant. It has hosted five U.S. Opens and will host its sixth in 2019. 3. Los Angeles Country Club (North) - A long par-71 course at 7,236 yards, the north course at Los Angeles Country Club was designed in 1921 by George C. Thomas Jr., and most recently redesigned in 2010 by Gil Hanse, Jim Wagner, and Geoff Shackelford. It's slated to host the 2023 U.S. Open. A lifelong collector of antique pocket watches, Craig Duling has run the Heritagepocketwatch.com website since 2014. Craig Duling is also a seasoned outdoorsman who has rafted on a number of rivers, including the Colorado River. Spanning 1,450 miles, the Colorado River stretches throughout seven different U.S. states as well as northwestern Mexico. The head of the river begins in the Rocky Mountain National Park, which sits at an elevation of around 9,000 feet. As it moves toward the Grand Canyon in Arizona, the Colorado loses more than half of its elevation. For most of its length, the river flows at a depth of around 20 feet, but there are regions that are as shallow as 6 feet or as deep as 90 feet. Many also know the Colorado for its mix of both slow-moving portions and rapids. As part of the entire Colorado River basin, the Colorado drains a space of more than 240,000 square miles. The far reach of the river has made it easy for communities to use it as a source of irrigation for over 1,000 years. Today, agricultural entities draw from the Colorado to water more than 5 million acres of farmland. In addition, nearly 20 million individuals use the river as a water source. |
AuthorBefore accepting his current position, Craig Duling served as an engineer with Lockheed Missiles and Space Company in Sunnyvale, California. Archives
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