Golf Course Architecture - Issue 71, January 2023

11 CONTENTS ON THE COVER The Royal Auckland and Grange Golf Club in New Zealand, a new 27-hole layout by Chris Cochran Photographed by: Gary Lisbon 14 Our Tee Box section opens with news of the 27-hole layout Chris Cochran has created for Royal Auckland and Grange in New Zealand 44 Mike Clayton explains why he believes Britain has been relatively slow to share in the fruits of the current age of great golf design 48 Designers have long laid out courses to be playable for all standards of golfer. But what level of bad golf can an architect be expected to design for? Adam Lawrence reports 54 Ron Kirby talks about his career in the golf design business and what he has learned 60 Adam Lawrence reports on the dramatic changes that have taken place at The Addington, which is in the middle of a five-year transformation process 66 Renovation work at Old Chatham was designed to raise the challenge while remaining playable for all, as Toby Ingleton discovers 72 Pinehurst has hired Tom Doak to design the resort’s tenth course on a dramatic site

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