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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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With only the tenacity only a government entity can afford, The Crossings at Carlsbad near San Diego, California will open its doors on Saturday.
Stalled numerous times by the California Coastal Commission and other environmental agencies, the course has been routed and rerouted, configured and reconfigured nearly a dozen times. Along the way, an Indian burial [...]

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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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Golf course architect Donald Trump continues to face hurdles for his “best golf course in the world” development in Aberdeen, Scotland.
As well as building the “best seaside course in the world”, he intended to develop a second course, a 450-room hotel, 500 luxury homes, and hundreds of holiday apartments.
But his plan to build part of [...]

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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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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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After pulling his $30 million dollar offer last week, Donald Trump has become an outsider in the ongoing soap opera of the Running Horse project. Hard to blame him - the original developer failed to acquire a number of parcels that would logically be part of the project. Trump wasn’t able to acquire the parcels, [...]

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Golf course architect (not the Donald Trump kind) Mike Nuzzo has been writing a blog since June - and it’s a really neat read if you want to see what goes into the construction of a golf course. I highly recommend visiting his blog.
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The home of golf is becoming not so sweet for both existing and proposed golf courses. A new golf course and proposed junior golf facility were rejected in Cumbrian, which is in northwest England.
Mr Cullingford said there was “no demonstrable deficiency in the provision of golf courses either in the Lake District National Park or [...]

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