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Taking time to recapture character. Inwood’s Daniel Friedman talks about how the New York club has spent the last 20 years trying to make up for the previous 80 years of change that had slowly eroded the character of its Herbert Strong-designed course
Delray Dunes reopens following renovation led by Scot Sherman
Nov 11, 2024 · Delray Dunes Golf & Country Club in Boynton Beach, Florida, has reopened its 1969 Pete Dye layout following the implementation of a new master plan by Scot Sherman. In what he refers to as a ‘sympathetic restoration’, Sherman, who previously worked with the Dyes, has brought back features that have been altered over the years, as well as restoring some green contours and introducing new ...
How to make clubhouses run more efficiently, without blowing the …
Dec 13, 2013 · For many, even most golf clubs, the very concept of clubhouse design is outside their comfort zone. In thousands of ordinary golf clubs around the world, especially older ones, the clubhouse ‘just is’ – it’s something that has been there, essentially unchanging but for the occasional lick of paint, since the club was founded. Perhaps the most vivid example of this is at the venerable ...
Scott Hoffman design in South Dakota approaches completion
Nov 14, 2024 · Seeding and sodding work on the Scott Hoffman-designed course for the new Mapleton Golf Club in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, is almost complete. The course is expected to open by early autumn of 2025. One of the primary characteristics of the course will be its wide bentgrass fairways, with expanded areas of fairway cut around many of the greens. “The fairways are wide so playability is great ...
University of Alabama opens new $47m golf facility
Nov 7, 2024 · The new $47m Alabama Intercollegiate Athletics Golf Facility in Tuscaloosa, USA, has opened for the University of Alabama’s (UA) men’s and women’s golf teams. The facility includes a nine-hole course, 16-acre training facility, 410-yard driving range and 25,000-square-foot team building. The facilities have been built on a 176-acre site on Kicker Road and will be used solely by UA’s ...
Sharon Heights reopens following $23m transformation by …
Nov 6, 2024 · Sharon Heights Golf & Country Club in Menlo Park, California, has reopened following a $23 million renovation by Todd Eckenrode – Origins Golf Design. The club approved the plan, created by the design firm’s principal Todd Eckenrode in 2019, which covers all 18 holes and aimed to make the layout more playable and interesting, improve course aesthetics and conditions, and adhere to the club ...
New Golf Courses – Best New Courses – GCA - Golf Course …
Jan 7, 2025 · While new golf designs may not be appearing at the same pace as in the 1990s and early 2000s, there continues to be a steady flow of new courses, both in established and new golf markets.
Kingston Heath: the best flat course on earth? - Golf Course …
May 24, 2017 · “One of the best golf courses I’ve ever played” said Ireland’s Shane Lowry following his opening round at Australia’s Kingston Heath Golf Club during last November’s World Cup of Golf. The week saw 56 players from 28 countries walk one of golf’s finest examples of course architecture exactly 90 years since the famed …
Bold vision unveiled for new club in the Carolina Sandhills
Dec 13, 2023 · King-Collins has been hired to design a new golf course on a dramatic site in the Sandhills of South Carolina. The invitation-only, private 21 Golf Club will be built 15 miles from the city of Aiken on a rumpled landscape where sand dunes reach more than 150 feet high. There will be two courses, one designed by King-Collins, and a second that is at the planning stage. “The topography and ...
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