9 66 While his portfolio of solo designs would be the envy of most, Canadian architect Rod Whitman is perhaps best known as one of golf’s great collaborators 72 Adam Lawrence visits Belleair’s West course in Florida, where Jason Straka and Dana Fry have completed a stunning transformation of the Donald Ross design 78 Richard Humphreys looks ahead to the opening of Point Hardy, the Coore & Crenshaw design growing in at the Cabot Saint Lucia resort 84 GEO Foundation’s Jonathan Smith considers what progress has been made since he wrote, in the first issue of GCA, about the need for ecological design 12 Our Tee Box section opens with news of the nineteen-hole short course designed by WAC Golf and now in construction at Bandon Dunes 52 The R&A and USGA’s new model local rule is too little for too few, says Toby Ingleton 54 It’s rare to find unique green designs in golf. Forrest Richardson describes his quest for something completely different at Promontory in Utah 58 Golf is at a crossroads, says Adam Lawrence. It needs to find new ways to reduce its water usage, and perhaps some of the new innovations in turfgrass can help CONTENTS ON THE COVER The par-three sixteenth on Coore & Crenshaw’s Point Hardy course in Saint Lucia Photographed by: Jacob Sjoman
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