Issue 10, October 2007

Issue ten of Golf Course Architecture contains our most detailed look ever at the development of a new course. Over the summer, editor Adam Lawrence spent time in Iceland with architect Steve Smyers, who is running the Black Sand Golf Links project for British firm Faldo Design. Black Sand promises to be one of the most exciting – and challenging – course development projects seen in recent years. Read the article and you'll see why.

In our ongoing series of profiles of up-and-coming course architects, Scottish golf journalist Mark Alexander interviews his compatriot Graeme Webster and Norwegian-based partner Brian Phillips, a team better known as Niblick Golf Design. Our Pioneer column is particularly exciting in this issue, as American golf architect Richard Mandell, author of a major recent book on the Pinehurst area of North Carolina, debunks some of the myths about Pinehurst's creator, Donald Ross.

We look at the construction of golf courses, and, in our On Site course review section, visit Korineum in northern Cyprus, Fota Island in Ireland, and, in the home of golf, take a look at two contrasting projects - the exciting new course by top American designer Tom Doak, The Renaissance Club at Archerfield and the hickory-only nine holer at Hill of Tarvit in Fife.