EarthGolf

Welcome to the redesigned EarthGolf.com. This new version adds a few features and gives it a more modern, look. The colors are also more golf like - taken directly from the photo of St. Andrews Beach (thanks to Philip Gawith for the photo) that appears in the header.
I’ve got a couple more tweaks to make [...]

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The National Golf Foundation reported that more golf courses closed in 2007 than opened, a copy of what happened in 2006. Below is their press release.
CLOSURES OUTPACE OPENINGS IN 2007
NGF has identified 113 golf courses, in 18-hole equivalents, that opened for business in the U.S. in 2007. During the same period, there were 121.5 golf [...]

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I’ve done an extensive update of the Architects page to list a good number of the architects currently designing golf courses. This includes all of the ASGCA folks, and many, many more who are not members of the ASGCA. This list differs from that on the ASGCA site in that it includes an architect’s website, [...]

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I’ve completed the first edition of the library (link is also at the top of the page) that includes 40 books relating to golf course design and maintenance. While this isn’t the seminal list of books on these topics, it does provide what many consider to be the best books in the field. I’ll update [...]

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Orchard Hills Golf Course in Waukegan, Illinois will soon trade its flying golf balls for flying soccer balls after the Park District’s board voted 4-1 to close the course and redevelop it as a sports complex.
District officials spent nearly $1 million studying whether the soccer, baseball and softball fields could be built on a lakefront [...]

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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.
Popularity: 9% [?]

Popularity: 9% [?]

If you’re playing golf this Saturday, please take a moment to check this website to see if the course is participating in Patriot Golf Day. It’s a $1 donation to a very worthy cause.
Play Golf America - Patriot Golf Day
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It was only a matter of time, and it happened at a course that is getting serious consideration for a U.S. Open. Erin Hills in Erin, Wisconsin held a tournament over the weekend for a group of 38 club pros and amateurs with the course set at 8,400 yards. Now, it was for 19 holes [...]

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This is an interesting environmental note. The course had been using gray water to irrigate its fairways.
Sales and marketing director Tiffany Nelson said the root structure on the course has deteriorated since 2000, when it stopped irrigating with Central Arizona Project water and switched to reclaimed water.
The reclaimed water has high salt content, which [...]

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A sad day - blogger and golf course architect Jeff Mingay announced that he’s moving on to other things and will no longer update his blog. That’s a real loss to the golf blog community. Jeff only had 29 blogs - the first of which appeared on January 1st of this year - but the [...]

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