Golf Course Architecture - Issue 81, April 2025

33 Photo: Leeds Golf Design Giulia Ferroni of Leeds Golf Design is halfway into a 10-year renovation at Cirencester Golf Club in Gloucestershire, England. “The renovation was driven by a desire to modernise a golf course that had become a little tired, while also creating more interest, particularly around greens,” said general manager Leighton Walker. “We see this project as essential to ensuring the course copes with the next 20 to 50 years of its life, while enhancing the playing experience for golfers. In places it will boost the challenge and, in other areas, make the course more approachable for the average player.” Ferroni adds: “The course is an original James Braid design, and one of the aims of the masterplan is to reshape bunkers, green surrounds and other features suitable for modern needs but maintaining the original style whenever possible. The layout was also changed in the mid-1990s when three new holes were built on adjacent land. The style of those holes is not consistent with the rest, so we will address that and provide a uniform course presentation.” Read more about Ferroni’s work at Cirencester on the GCA website. ASGCA’s By Design magazine explores career origins Golf course architects Jan Bel Jan, Steve Forrest, Don Knott, Trey Kemp and Logan Thompson talk about the people, courses and experiences that planted the seed for their career, in the latest issue of By Design magazine, produced for the American Society of Golf Course Architects by the team responsible for GCA. The issue includes case studies on Olde Eight in South Carolina and Cypress Bend in Louisiana, and much more. To download the latest issue and subscribe to By Design, visit www.asgca.org. Gary Johnston becomes EIGCA president Gary Johnston has become the new president of the European Institute of Golf Course Architects, following a ceremony at the institute’s annual meeting and 25th anniversary celebrations in Dornoch, Scotland. Johnston (pictured left, with past president Caspar Grauballe) has worked for European Golf Design for over 20 years. Read more on the GCA website. Photo: EIGCA Ferroni reaches halfway point of ten-year renovation at Cirencester TEE BOX

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