After a decade of work, the restoration of the Donald Ross-designed Essex Golf & Country Club (G&CC) in Canada is complete.

Of all the professional golfers who have sought, as their playing careers wound down, to reinvent themselves by using their name and reputation to drive other business opportunities, surely none have been as successful as Greg Norman.

Yes, you read the headline correctly: I said par-FREE, not par three.

Following last year's launch of the Golf Benchmark Survey, I am delighted that we can again partner with Golf Course Architecture to bring you the results from our second survey.

Golf gets a poor rap from a wide variety of sources.