CNN apparently thinks it’s got a scoop from Jack Nicklaus – there are golf professionals out there selling out their name providing design services without ever setting foot on a site.
It is more the general trend of tour players assuming the role of designers with which Nicklaus is so uncomfortable. “There’s a lot of fellas [...]
The drama that is the saga of Running Horse golf course keeps on chugging along. In April, it was reported the course and its PGA Tour tournament were in trouble. Then, golf course architect Donald Trump thankfully stepped into the picture to really give us something to talk about.
Well, it’s a week since the Donald [...]
A lengthy article on the preparation that Oakmont is undergoing on the grass growing side illuminates on a few interesting anecdotes – a golf ball bounced on a firm fairway should bounce waist high and they’re mowing the greens at 30/320ths of an inch. That would also be 3/32nds or 300/3200ths or even 3000/32000ths of [...]
Chambers Bay, which is likely the most high profile course opening in America this year, is set to open in less than three weeks. The Robert Trent Jones II course carries a nearly $21 million price tag – a high price for a government backed golf course.
Early feasibility studies offered conflicting assessments, with one [...]
Davis Love’s redo of the former Kannapolis Country Club is nearly complete. The new course, renamed The Club at Irish Creek, is Love’s first venture into his hometown of Charlotte.
“The golf course turned out great,” Love said after a visit to the site during the Wachovia Championship. “It’s Pinehurst-like in that it has rolling farmland. [...]
Erin Hills, the golf course that the other greeting card magnate built, is seeking a US Open and it would seem that it might just get it. The course, set about 45 minutes west of Milwaukee, is competing with a few other venues to become the midwest stop on the US Open rota.
“It’s one [...]
Golf course architect Graham Marsh recently opened a new course in Australia and gave his thoughts on what some of the problems with the game is as related to design.
“There are probably more golf courses closed here in the United States last year than were actually opened. And the reason is we are pitching golf [...]
Jeff Bass, the head professional at Pebble Lake Golf Course in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, penned an interesting piece on what technology has cost the game of golf.
Oh but what might have been had earlier generations had the foresight to see the dark side of distance in the modern game. Not as it applies to scoring, [...]
Hal Sutton and friends continue work on TPC Treviso Bay in Naples, Florida.
“We tried to keep the lines simple,” Sutton said, “pleasing to the eye, long simple slopes instead of sharp slopes.”
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Sutton says his design trademark is long, sweeping slopes.
And the second green was anything but.
It had sharp slopes, which caused a shadowing effect on [...]
Yes, I was reaching with that headline.
Golf course architect Donald Trump is finding his dream of building the best-golf-course-ever-in-the-history-of-the-earth-and-I-don’t-care-if-you-think-otherwise keeps hitting snags.
My tribute to Hal Sutton – to keep it simple – let’s just throw up the links to the stories.
Bid to put Trump’s resort plan off course
Fears raised over Trump golf plan
Green concerns [...]
