golf course design

Morri: Golf at Riviera is golf worth watching

Morri: Golf at Riviera is golf worth watching

Watching the play at Riviera this past week once again brought the role of the golf course in tournament play sharply into focus. 19 Feb 2024
Review: Titirangi Golf Club

Review: Titirangi Golf Club

The 1920s was a golden age for golf course construction in Australia thanks, in no small part, to the creativity and genius of legendary designer Dr Alister MacKenzie. 13 Dec 2023
Weiskopf ... an important voice lost – Huggan

Weiskopf ... an important voice lost – Huggan

Things were getting desperate. The column for the Sunday newspaper hadn’t been written and ideas were short. So, a phone call was made to the Rusacks Hotel that sits on the right side of the 18th fairway on the Old Course at St. Andrews. 22 Aug 2022
Clayton: The Makings Of A Top-100 Course

Clayton: The Makings Of A Top-100 Course

Golf courses are lots of things to lots of people and ranking them in some sort of rational order is fraught given the emotions golf courses engender are not always rational. 15 Mar 2022
The Thing About Golf Podcast #52 – Edwin Roald

The Thing About Golf Podcast #52 – Edwin Roald

When you think of the world’s golf hot spots it would be fair to say Iceland doesn’t spring immediately to mind. 14 Oct 2021
Morri: A win for architecture

Morri: A win for architecture

There were two winners from Sei Young Kim’s maiden major title at Aronimink Golf Club at the weekend. 12 Oct 2020
MORRI: The lesser of two evils

MORRI: The lesser of two evils

Let’s be done with this whole distance debate and just go ahead and implement the obvious solution: make golf courses shorter. 6 Jan 2020
CLAYTON: We need to look back to move forward

CLAYTON: We need to look back to move forward

The architecture of the golf course is one thing separating the game from most others where the field of play is confined, regulated by lines, and very often flat. Think, tennis, football, swimming, snooker, athletics or darts. 20 Feb 2017

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