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William Swan creates new short course at Cowdray
Cowdray Golf in West Sussex, England, has opened a new par-three layout by Swan Golf Designs. The short course includes five greens built to USGA specification and greenside bunkers designed to replicate the look and feel of those on the main course. A new short-game area, which includes a practice....
Spanish Peaks Mountain Club’s new short course will open next month
Spanish Peaks Mountain Club in Big Sky, Montana, will open a new 10-hole par-three course designed by the late Tom Weiskopf and his longtime collaborator Phil Smith, in July. With increasing membership and the opening of the new luxury resort Montage Big Sky, Spanish Peaks began looking at options f...
This year's European Institute of Golf Course Architects - EIGCA annual meeting has included golf at two very different locations. First was Flommens in Falsterbo, where water is in play on almost every hole. And second was Royal Copenhagen, which has an inland links style and plenty of interested spectators!
Rees Jones and Bryce Swanson have renovated the Old course at Broken Sound in Florida to suit tour pros and club members alike
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One good test of a golf course’s ability to accommodate players of all standards is a pro-celebrity tournament. So when the PGA Tour Champions’ new James Hardie Pro Football Hall of Fame Invitational debuts in 2025, we’ll find out whether golf course architects Rees Jones and Bryce Swanson hav...
Faldo Design short course and putting green opens at Chart Hills Golf Club in Kent, England
Chart Hills Golf Club in Kent, England, has opened a new par-three short course designed by Faldo Design. The Loop course, which has six holes ranging from 50 to 100 yards and features inspired by St Andrews and Augusta National, has opened alongside a new practice putting green. Both have been ...
Canada’s Victoria Golf Club enlists Mackenzie & Ebert - International Golf Course Architects to develop master plan for upgrading the seaside club’s course ⛳
Victoria Golf Club in Oak Bay, Canada, has appointed architects Tom Mackenzie and Martin Ebert to develop a master plan for renovating the club’s course. The club is one of Canada’s oldest and is historically known as the Oak Bay Golf Links. Golf has been played at the seaside property on clif...
The design by Arnold Palmer will be modernised in a two-part project led by Brandon Johnson
King’s North at Myrtle Beach National has closed to begin a two-part, two-year renovation project. Founders Group International, Myrtle Beach National’s parent company, has selected Brandon Johnson Golf Course Design to oversee the project on the Arnold Palmer-designed course. Owner Brandon Jo...
Park Mammoth Golf Club is getting a new short course 👇
Construction has started on a new short course, designed by Brian Ross, at Park Mammoth Golf Club in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The nine-hole par-three layout is the latest development at the club, formerly known as Cave Valley, since David Chandler bought it in late 2019. His initial focus was to com...
Canada’s Cutten Fields reopens following completion of Jeff Mingay renovation
Cutten Fields in Guelph, Canada, has opened its golf course for the season having now completed a renovation by Jeff Mingay. The private club was founded in 1931 and its course was originally designed by architect Stanley Thompson and amateur champion Chick Evans. In 2016, Mingay was commissioned ...
West Herts Golf Club bunker project nears completion
Marc Westenborg has completed bunker work on 14 holes at West Herts Golf Club in Rickmansworth, England, and will oversee renovation of the remaining four holes later in 2024. The architect has been consulting the club for over 10 years and has created a masterplan for the course. “Part of the pla...
Playability and options are the focus for Paul McGinley’s work at Donegal Golf Club, Murvagh
Paul McGinley Golf Course Design has completed the first phase of renovation work at Donegal Golf Club, located on the Murvagh Peninsula on Ireland’s Atlantic coast. The course was originally designed by Eddie Hackett in 1973 and was remodelled by Pat Ruddy in 1992. It has holes playing along sand...
The new issue of By Design covers reconfiguration projects, the BIRDIE Act, an architect’s role in club culture and how the ASGCA - American Society of Golf Course Architects and the industry has evolved over the past 20 years 👇
The Summer 2024 issue of By Design magazine from the American Society of Golf Course Architects is now available in digital format. The cover story of the latest issue focuses on golf course reconfiguration projects. Bobby W**d, Chris Cochran of Nicklaus Design, Brett Mogg of Nelson & Haworth and Bi...
Renaissance Golf Design’s Brian Schneider restores Charles Banks character to Tamarack Country Club - Golf + Tennis
Tamarack Country Club in Greenwich, Connecticut, has reopened its golf course following a renovation by Brian Schneider of Renaissance Golf Design. In a nine-month project, the architect has focused on restoring the layout’s Golden Age style, as designed by Charles Banks in 1929. He referenced his...
Construction of new course by Robert Trent Jones II - RTJ2 Golf Design on the island of Eleuthera will begin in November
Robert Trent Jones II has been appointed to design a new golf course for Cotton Bay Club on the island of Eleuthera in The Bahamas. The original Cotton Bay Club was developed in 1959 by Pan Am airline founder Juan Trippe, who commissioned Robert Trent Jones Sr to design a golf course along a stretch...
Golf de Fontainebleau appoints claytondevriespont as consulting golf course architects
Clayton, DeVries & Pont has been appointed as consulting golf course architects at the highly regarded Golf de Fontainebleau club in France. Set within a forest of beech, oak and pine trees on the outskirts of the town of Fontainebleau, Julien Chantepie laid out the course in 1909, with a substantia...
The new Inspiration Club in London is opening this weekend ⛳
Routed by one architect, earthmoving largely overseen by the client, and greens and bunkers designed by another architect. The recipe for The Inspiration Club’s new layout in west London, little more than five miles from Heathrow Airport, is not, in truth, all that inspiring. Building a golf cours...
Travis Pointe Country Club appoints Chris Wilczynski to make the course more playable, fun and sustainable
Travis Pointe Country Club in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has selected Chris Wilczynski to develop a renovation masterplan. The club was founded in 1977 with a golf course originally designed by Bill Newcomb. It has hosted several tournaments, including the LPGA Volvik Championship and numerous US Open qua...
Grassing begins at new Kyle Franz and Mike Koprowski-designed Broomsedge course in South Carolina ahead of preview play in October 2024 ⛳
Grassing is now in progress at the new Kyle Franz and Mike Koprowski-designed Broomsedge course in Rembert, South Carolina. “We’re excited to kick off the grow-in phase and begin bringing even more life to the site,” said Koprowski, who bought the site in 2022 and expects the course to open ...
Pangaea Golf Architecture and former Open champion Paul Lawrie to unveil design concepts for Golf South Ayrshire’s Darley and Belleisle courses this summer
Pangaea Golf Architecture, the design practice of Stuart Rennie and Jeff Danner, has been selected by South Ayrshire Council in Scotland to develop renovation plans for its Darley and Belleisle courses. The authority looks after eight golf courses: Darley, Lochgreen and Fullarton in Troon; Bellisle....
The Pines at The International Golf will reopen in autumn following Coore & Crenshaw redesign
Coore & Crenshaw is nearing completion of the redesign of the Pines course at The International Golf Club & Resort in Bolton, in the greater Boston area of Massachusetts. The design team has created completely new corridors and green sites, with holes framed by sandy waste areas and pitch pines. Tee...
Benin’s first ever golf course will be built near Cotonou, the West African country’s largest city
Construction firm Gregori International has started work on Avlékété Golf Course, a new 18-hole golf layout by Jeremy Pern, near Cotonou, the largest city in Benin. Pern, a British golf course architect now living in southern France, has worked with Gregori International on several projects, incl...
A new course by Sergio Garcia will open in Portugal next year
Terras da Comporta in Portugal, is expected to open its new Torre course, attributed as a Sergio Garcia design, in June 2025. The resort, by developer Vanguard Properties, opened the David McLay Kidd-designed Dunas course in 2023. Garcia and his team are working on a 365-hectare parcel of sandy land...
“Our work at Canal Shores has helped create a facility that is environmentally sustainable and enhances the lives of the community,” says Doug Myslinski, from Wadsworth Golf Construction Company on the renovation at Canal Shores Golf Course near Chicago, USA, which reopens for play this summer.
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When the Canal Shores Golf Course in Evanston, a suburb of Chicago, reopens this summer, it will mark the end of a long journey and the beginning of a new era for the public facility. Originally opened in 1919, Canal Shores has for some time been in dire need of repair. A USGA Green Section evalua...
“The best practice facility in Yorkshire” is nearly complete at Headingley Golf Club, following a three-year effort by Creative Golf Design and Booth Golf & Leisure
Driving range development specialist Booth Golf & Leisure is nearing completion of a new practice area, designed by Ken Moodie of Creative Golf Design, at Headingley Golf Club in Leeds, England. The club was founded in 1892 and moved to its current location in the early 1900s. Both Harry C**t and Al...
GCA visited The Addington Golf Club yesterday to check out a par-three hole that has been recreated by claytondevriespont 👇
The Addington Golf Club in south London, which is in the middle of five-year-plus restoration programme at the hands of design firm Clayton, DeVries & Pont (CDP), has opened a new par-three hole, using an original green site that had been taken out of play at least a century ago and was revealed by....
Beau Welling Design plans to “breathe new life” into Stowe Country Club
Beau Welling Design is renovating the golf course and practice facilities at Stowe Country Club in Vermont. Work is being led by Welling and his senior design associate Chase Webb, with the brief of making the layout more playable for high handicappers and more challenging for low handicap golfers,....
Alex Hay of Lobb + Partners to address safety issue at University Golf Club
University Golf Club in Vancouver, Canada, has turned to Alex Hay of Lobb + Partners to provide a permanent solution to reduce the number of balls being hit out of the property from the tee shot on the sixth hole, which runs alongside a residential road. As a temporary measure, the club had been usi...
Kevin Hargrave and NMP Golf Construction give Lexington Country Club “some much needed oomph”
The golf course at Lexington Country Club was originally designed in 1912 by Tom Bendelow, but was being tinkered with before a shovel even hit the ground. The club feared Bendelow’s design may be too difficult for average players so made minor modifications before construction began. Several more...
Four more revamped holes are open at the Donald Ross Memorial course at BOYNE Golf's The Highlands.
The layout is a composite re-creation of Ross’s classic holes. The latest to be completed are inspired by holes found at Plainfield CC, Seminole, Aronimink and Pinehurst, with Raymond Hearn Golf Course Designs, Inc. overseeing the project.
Read more about Hearn’s work at the resort: https://www.golfcoursearchitecture.net/content/michigan-ski-resort-nears-completion-of-new-ray-hearn-short-course
“During our fourteen-year involvement, we have added proposals over and above those in our original masterplan, and many of these are still to be implemented,” says architect David Williams, about his work at Real Golf de Pedreña in Spain
David Williams has completed another phase of renovation work at the Harry C**t-designed course at Real Golf de Pedreña on Spain’s north coast. In 2010, Williams devised a masterplan for the course, which originally opened in 1928, and he has since overseen its implementation, which was . Over th...
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