88 REPORT Over 20 years ago, Rod Whitman designed the 18-hole course at Blackhawk Golf Club near Edmonton, Canada. Now, alongside his partners at Whitman, Axland & Cutten (WAC Golf), Whitman is leading a nine-hole expansion that will see Blackhawk become a 27-hole club. “The existing Blackhawk course occupies an important place in modern Canadian golf architecture,” says Keith Cutten of WAC Golf. “Rod’s design is bold, strategic and intensely connected to its landscape. Its broad playing corridors, expressive bunkering and highly individual greens demonstrate how an architect can create interest and complexity without relying upon narrowness or excessive punishment. Since opening, Back to Blackhawk Image: WAC Golf A visualisation of the par-three sixth hole at Blackhawk WAC Golf is adding nine holes to a Canadian club that already has a well-regarded 18-hole layout by Rod Whitman.
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