A well-known name is returning to the European Tour schedule from next year.

Design firm Harradine Golf has expanded into yet another new territory, in this case Khartoum in Sudan, where the company has recently started the construction of the country's first grass golf course.

Golf architect John Sanford has started work on Hacienda Bay, a new golf course located on the Mediterranean coast of northern Egypt.

Arizona-based architect Gary Stephenson has started a programme of renovation works at the Fairmont St Andrews resort (formerly known as St Andrews Bay).

Architect Rick Jacobson is to include an island green as part of his renovation of the East Course at the Hilton Indian Lakes Resort outside Chicago.