British firm Swan Golf Designs (SGD) has been busy around the Asian golf market.

Construction is nearing completion at the new Donnafugata Golf Resort, in the Sicilian province of Ragusa.

French Lick Resort's Pete Dye golf course is almost complete, with the opening scheduled for April 2009.

Many good judges would argue that Harry Shapland Colt, with his key role in the evolution of Golden Age design and the list of great links and heath courses that bear his name, is golf's greatest ever architect.

British niche publisher Oleander Press has reprinted this wonderful nineteenth century volume by the Scottish barrister and golf obsessive Sir Walter Simpson.