Taylor Anderson is a registered professional engineer in the states of Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. He owns a civil engineering consulting firm in the Atlanta suburbs, Blue Landworks LLC. Blue Landworks provides consulting services to individuals and companies working on land development in the southeast. From the Myrtle Beach Sun Times:
Developers have submitted plans to redevelop the entire 18 holes of Crown Park Golf Club in Longs with single-family and multifamily homes.
If the rezoning to a planned development district is approved, the golf course would become the 18th since January 2005 to be closed for development or proposed redevelopment on [...]
Robert Thompson, who has a great golf blog, wrote an article for the May/June issue of Travel + Leisure Golf magazine titled, “A Gathering Storm”. Robert brings to attention something that has long been an impact to seaside golf courses – the loss of land from erosion.
Robert highlights what some courses are constructing, and paying, [...]
The American Society of Golf Course Architects has published a chart noting the expected life cycles of certain components of the golf course. (A PDF version of the chart can be downloaded here.)
Greens – 15-30 years
Bunker Sand – 5-7 years
Irrigation System – 10-30 years
Cart Paths (Asphalt/Concrete) – 5-10 years/15-30 years
Practice Range Tees – 5-10 years
Tees [...]
While the market for golf in the heavily golf developed areas of the world (USA, Ireland, England) slows, the golf market in other countries is booming.
Today, three-quarters of all golf courses planned or under construction are outside the United States, Britain and other traditional golf centers, according to industry estimates. With 17,000 courses already functioning [...]
More from Tiger’s practice round at the host course for the 2007 US Open.
“It’s a great test, but has a lot of blind tee and second shots,” world number one Woods said in his monthly newsletter Tuesday. “Overall, I’d say it’s a lot harder than Augusta National.
“It’s an old-style course and I kept trying to [...]
(Note: I put this article together prior to the Masters – March 28th to be exact – and am just now publishing it. I’m using it more as a “test” blog to see what an article looks like on the new website.)
I’ll be attending a practice round again this year at Augusta National Golf Club [...]
