Taylor Anderson is a registered professional engineer in the states of Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. He provides consulting services with a firm in the Atlanta area to individuals and companies working on land development in the southeast. 
The 2012 PGA Championship is still a few days away yet, but after the success of the 2007 Senior PGA Championship, it’s too early to discuss some changes planned for the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island. The big change will be the sand.
“I’m concerned about some of the ways the ball has plugged in bunkers,” [...]
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Following up on an entry posted back in April regarding the challenges facing seaside golf courses, Wild Dunes, located in Charleston, South Carolina, lost most of the eighteenth hole when it collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean in October.
Beach erosion, which had been nibbling at the exposed hole, has taken the green and the final 300 [...]
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Excuse me while I blow the dust off around here from the extended hiatus. Diving right back in - Golf Digest held a “panelist summit” last week in which several panelists talked about golf course ratings, design, etc. Bob Carney at Golf Digest’s Editor’s Blog has an entry that discusses Tom Fazio’s dislike of perpendicular [...]
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Cybergolf is running a new series on the construction of Sweetgrass Golf Course in Michigan’s U.P. Linked is the first part in the series.
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As is the case when a tournament course ends on a par 3, it draws a number of detractors. Add Tiger Woods to the list of those who don’t like a course ending on a par 3. Personally, I couldn’t care less on what par a course ends on. I don’t know why a par [...]
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Four new courses have been added to the Gallery:
Kingsbarns in St. Andrews, Scotland
The Golf Club in Ohio
Double Eagle in Ohio
Bayonne in New Jersey
Thanks to Chris Kane, David Whitmer and Raphael Larson for sharing their photos.
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It will be an interesting contrast in changes. The changes made at TPC Boston were done to a course that was considered “vanilla” from a golf course architecture standpoint. That allowed for a lot of opportunity for improvement. Cog Hill, which is highly regarded by most (although I think it’s probably a little too highly [...]
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As good and as well received as the changes were to the TPC Boston this year, more changes are planned for next year - although they won’t be nearly the scope.
“I like what they’ve done,” said Aaron Oberholser, who tied for second. “I think they could do even more.”
That is exactly the plan.
“Some of the [...]
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The focus on what has been by all accounts a tremendous success of the redesign of the TPC Boston course this week means that both Gil Hanse and Brad Faxon are likely to get more looks in the future for opportunities to design courses. Faxon and Hanse aren’t “a pair” like so many architect/player combos. [...]
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The transformed par 4 fourth hole at TPC Boston is generating a lot of talk this week, including perhaps the longest article on a discussion of a single hole that I’ve ever seen at the Boston Globe. Geoff Shackelford also weighs in on the hole, including photos from different angles. Unfortunately, since it’s the fourth [...]
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