A gravel parking lot, wedged between a Gaelic football pitch and a strip of farmland beside the ocean on Ireland’s rugged west coast, could hardly be considered “off the beaten track.” This isn’t hitchhiking along the Hippie Trail. But considering most golfers visiting Ireland stay in Dublin or stick to legacy courses like Royal County Read more…
What makes an ideal match-play golf course? High on the list would be holes that force players to make clear decisions on the tee, including what line to take in order to put second shots into advantageous positions, and even what club to hit—driver, or something less? The course would be at least as much Read more…
Those who pay attention to new golf course openings have had Trout National on their radars since March when it was announced baseball legend Mike Trout was backing a new private club outside of Philadelphia—with a layout designed by Tiger Woods and his design team.
Venerable East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, host of the annual Tour Championship and the venue Bobby Jones grew up playing, is the latest to reach into the past and return to pre-World War II versions of its architecture.
Each spring the Alister MacKenzie Society sponsors the Ray Haddock Lido Prize, a competition for amateur architects to submit drawings of a theoretical golf hole that embodies the design principles of Alister MacKenzie.
Links Golf Club, an online-based golf collective of over 5,400 members, has entered into an exclusivity agreement to purchase Spey Bay Golf Club on the Moray coast of northern Scotland.
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Architecture’s best rule is: Use what’s there. Sometimes that’s a perfect landscape, a Shinnecock Hills with wild grasses, sand ridges, a distant bay. Sometimes it’s Florida citrus land, a pasture and canals.
Australian Golf Digest
