Golf Course Architecture - Issue 70, October 2022

CONTENTS 56 Toby Ingleton reports on a new Stirling & Martin course that will open in Madrid next year, almost 25 years after the initial routing 62 John Holmes explains how an Abu Dhabi club employed interseeding to help address its water supply issue 64 Rob Gavarkovs says that synthetic turf could provide a solution to some of golf ’s pressures 68 We finish this issue at Prestwick, where golfers will have the chance to play the club’s 12-hole routing from 1860 12 Our Tee Box sections opens with news of Schmidt-Curley’s 36-hole golf project in Cambodia 42 Robin Hiseman of European Golf Design considers when, how and why a course might need tweaking just after opening 44 Adam Lawrence explores the role out of bounds has in the game and how it has been used as a legitimate strategic hazard 52 We hear from superstar golf architect Tom Doak about how he is trying to find a new way of working ON THE COVER Out of bounds on the fourteenth at Royal St Georges. Read more about the most penal of hazards on page 44 Photographed by: Jason Livy 9

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