Golf Course Architecture - Issue 81, July 2025

6 CONTENTS TEE BOX 8 Our Tee Box section begins with a look at King Collins Dormer’s plan for Royal Dornoch, which includes a new 18-hole layout, new holes for the Struie course and a new par-three layout. INSIGHT 34 Ron Whitten shares his perspectives on the AW Tillinghast design at Swope Memorial in Kansas City, where a project is in progres to recapture the architect’s original vision. ON SITE 54 The New course at Trump Aberdeen may have attracted far less attention than the Old, but the final result is just as dramatic, as Toby Ingleton reports. Cover photography courtesy of Jacob Sjöman FEATURE 38 The par-three eighth hole at Oakmont got a lot of press during the recent US Open for being virtually 300 yards in length. Adam Lawrence investigates why players are so hostile to long one-shotters.

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