Crenshaw’s comments on golf course design

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 [...]

Trump’s Scotland course hitting roadblocks

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 [...]

Female golf course architects a rare breed

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 [...]

TPC Scottsdale’s Stadium Course shuts down

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 [...]

The Donald is not an open piggy bank

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, [...]

Architect Mike Nuzzo’s Blog

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.

Jeff Mingay ending his blog

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 [...]

Is Great Britain becoming hostile to golf?

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 [...]

Shocking: Golf market in trouble

Ray Tennenbaum writes an interesting article for Golf Business Magazine on the sorry state of the golf industry, which has joined the residential real estate industry in the toilet. (Welcome – the water’s @&$#!) In any event, the article is an interesting one and spurred a great discussion at GolfClubAtlas.com on the subject. (There’s too [...]

Adam’s Rib opens – but it’ll cost you an arm and a leg to join

Sorry, couldn’t pass up on that softball headline. Adam’s Rib Ranch is exactly what you’d expect from a development in the Rocky Mountains – beautiful and expensive.
The Tom Weiskopf-designed golf course at the new Adam’s Rib Ranch mountain development plans to tee off on Aug. 11.
The 1,600-acre, high-end resort community in Eagle is owned [...]

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