Owned and operated by the Lopesan Hotel Group, Lopesan Meloneras Golf occupies two distinct tracts; the more compact front nine lies further inland, with the back nine routed in a large loop around a future development site.
Owned and operated by the Lopesan Hotel Group, Lopesan Meloneras Golf occupies two distinct tracts; the more compact front nine lies further inland, with the back nine routed in a large loop around a future development site.
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In 1963, Kirby became a design associate with Robert Trent Jones, assisting with a number of projects in the US, Europe and the Caribbean. After eight years with the company, he branched out on his own.
Ron Kirby went to Washington Elementary and Briscoe Junior High, graduating from Beverly High School in 1950. He then went to turf school at the University of Massachusetts on a Francis Ouimet Caddy Scholarship, attending Saturday morning art classes at Boston Museum of Fine Arts. He left his studies due to a change in his draft status classification, joining the Coast Guard in 1951.
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