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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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Just a few more quotes to add to the changes that will get tested starting tomorrow at TPC Boston and the Deutsche Bank Championship.

“It’s the mental aspect — we’re trying to make them think,” he said. “That’s the whole idea. You want to be able to test the players and make them come up with [...]

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The University of Texas has revamped their golf course in an effort to draw “major championships”. The course used to measure a pedestrian 7,150 yards, but it’s been lengthened to a more Texas-sized 7,400 yards.
“This was a very good course from the start (in 2003), but early on we realized there was an issue with [...]

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Gil Hanse’s redo of the TPC Boston course will be all the talk this week. Set your TiVo to pick up the golf, if you don’t have time to watch it live (or will be taking in college football’s opening weekend…)
Thanks to a mild December, the job was done in about six months, and [...]

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Geoff Shackelford has been highlighting the excellent changes that architect Gil Hanse and Brad Faxon have made at TPC Boston. In a word, from the photos, the changes appear excellent. It will be interesting to see how the course plays in next week’s Deutsche Bank Championship.
Holes highlighted as of August 27 (Updated as Geoff posts [...]

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Although we’ve known for almost a week, it was officially announced that Tiger Woods’ first American design will be at North Carolina’s Cliffs community. Below is the press release:
ASHEVILLE, N.C.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–It’s official: the world’s number one golfer, Tiger Woods, will design his first American golf [...]

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The previous article on female golf course architects was a hit, if statistics don’t lie. (Don’t be afraid to comment!) In any event, Kari Haug has done what several golf course architects have done in life - started in one field totally unrelated to golf course architecture, and switched later in life.
After high school, Haug [...]

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The news is out - Tiger Woods is going to design his first US course. It’s going to be in North Carolina at the Cliffs, a high end retirement community located in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Now, in this previous article, I highlighted Tiger’s design philosophy. It will be interesting how he uses the extreme [...]

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Always interesting to read, Ben Crenshaw continues to comment on both golf course design and course setup - particularly Augusta. John Huggan captures Crenshaw comments in his most recent piece.
Not surprisingly, Crenshaw - with his long-time partner, Bill Coore - has been the architect of some of the most interesting courses designed in the past [...]

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It’s an interesting, but obvious, problem - there are very few female golf course architects. In fact, so few that most can’t even name one. The most famous female golf course architects are Marion Hollins, who had a great influence on Cypress Point, and Alice Dye, who continues to have a great influence in her [...]

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