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The October 2024 issue of Golf Course Architecture is out now! The Keep at McLemore, a Bill Bergin-Rees Jones mountaintop design in northwest Georgia, features on the cover. Load next 12 article (s) (988 left)Loading... Check out the latest onsite golf course design and development news from Golf Course Architecture.
The Bobby Jones Golf Course: A shared legacy - Golf Course …
Tue 06 Nov, 2018. Atlanta’s first public golf course opened in 1932, a tribute to the city’s most famous sportsman, Bobby Jones. The Bobby Jones Golf Course has reopened this month following a year-long renovation. It’s a legacy to Jones, but also to Bob Cupp – as the last design he completed before his death in August 2016.
Seowon: Getting the Hills course tour-ready
Oct 17, 2023 · When the LPGA Tour selected the Hills course at Seowon Hills Country Club near Seoul, South Korea, to host the BMW Ladies Championship in October 2023, it contacted Golfplan to review the design. David Dale, one of the firm’s partners, had created a renovation masterplan for the club’s Valley course several years earlier. While the club hadn’t found the time or budget to proceed, Dale ...
Apogee Club: an interview with Mike Davis - Golf Course …
Dec 18, 2023 · The Gil Hanse-designed West course – the first of three planned for Apogee in south Florida – is now open for play. GCA spoke with former USGA CEO Mike Davis, one of the key figures behind the club’s development, to find out more. “The concept at Apogee was started by Tom [Fazio II] and me around five years ago,” says Davis.
The Pioneer: Donald Ross - Golf Course Architecture
Mon 01 Oct, 2007. If ever an architect and a place were unequivocally linked, Donald Ross and Pinehurst, North Carolina were. After all, he spent forty-eight years of his life there. It was at Pinehurst that Ross got his real start in the world of golf course design. Pinehurst #2 is his most famous work and the work everyone sees as defining ...
How to make clubhouses run more efficiently, without blowing the …
Dec 13, 2013 · The first presents clients with creative design solutions specific to its brand promise. The second presents the creative financing alternatives needed to finance the club improvements. That being said, many clubs and the club industry in general is simply flat footed when it comes to innovative offerings in merchandising and food and beverage.
Nebraska’s Quarry Oaks prepares to reopen following ‘major facelift’
Aug 30, 2024 · Quarry Oaks Golf Club in Ashland, Nebraska, will reopen its course for limited play this autumn following a year-long grow-in after a renovation by original designer John LaFoy and contractor Landscapes Unlimited. The course, which first opened in 1996, was built on the site of an old rock quarry on the Platte River between Omaha and Lincoln. In 2022, owner Jim Abel began planning to renovate ...
East Lake appoints Andrew Green to develop renovation plan
Jan 14, 2022 · By Richard Humphreys. Fri 14 Jan, 2022. East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Georgia, has appointed Andrew Green to develop a renovation master plan for the golf course and practice facilities. Work is set to begin after the 2023 Tour Championship, which East Lake has hosted since 2004 and is now the finale of the PGA Tour Playoffs and FedEx Cup.
The Club at Lac La Belle unveils renovated course
Jul 28, 2020 · By Richard Humphreys. Tue 28 Jul, 2020. The Club at Lac La Belle in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, has reopened its golf course following a renovation by Craig Haltom. “The first four holes have been built on new property that was never part of the original course,” said Haltom. “That gave us room to reroute holes on the existing course to reach ...
The Pioneer: Dr Alister MacKenzie - Golf Course Architecture
Sat 01 Oct, 2005. Mark Rowlinson profiles the designer of Cypress Point, Royal Melbourne and Augusta National. Alister MacKenzie is probably unique among great golf course architects in that he was not himself a first rate player. We know little of his golfing pedigree other than the fact that he was a member of both Headingley and Leeds Golf ...
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