The July 2025 issue of Golf Course Architecture is out now!

The July 2025 issue of Golf Course Architecture is out now!

Our latest issue features the New course at Trump International Golf Links in Aberdeen, Scotland, on the cover. Toby Ingleton toured the course and spoke with the project team about the dramatic site, which centres on a system of high dunes that are just as impressive as those on the club’s first course.

The par-three eighth at the recent US Open at Oakmont got a lot of press for being virtually 300 yards in length, with many players critical of the hole, and long par threes in general. For our  ‘Not for a long shot?’ article, Adam Lawrence spoke with several golf course architects, including Steve Smyers, Brian Curley and Christine Fraser, to get their thoughts on long one-shotters.

Adam also reports on a visit to the new Torre course at Terras da Comporta, designed by Sergio Garcia’s firm. “It might not be able to dethrone its sister Dunas for the title of Portugal’s best course, but it is a very good partner,” he writes.

We also visited the Baltusrol Golf Club in New Jersey, where the reopening of the Upper course marks Gil Hanse’s completion of the restoration of AW Tillinghast’s famous ‘dual courses’. Hanse spoke with us about the distinguishing characteristics of the Lower and the Upper courses, and provides an insight into the process of restoring dual greens on the fourteenth hole.

Our feature interview for the new issue is with Rees Jones. He speaks about following in the footsteps of his father, his work at Bethpage Black as the 2025 Ryder Cup approaches, projects in Asia and much more. “I want the entry level golfer to have a place to play and have a sports activity that they enjoy for a lifetime,” he says.

Ron Whitten writes about Swope Memorial, where he is consulting on a project led by CE Golf Design that is aiming to recapture AW Tillinghast’s original vision for the Kansas City course. He writes: “There wasn’t much Tillinghast to preserve, but a good amount to ‘restore’. We call our process a sympathetic restoration, trying to address 21st century demands to an early 20th century design.”

Also, we have reports on Eschuri Vung Bau Golf Resort, a new IMG course located on an island off the coast of southern Vietnam; the US$3 billion Hann Reserve development in New Clark City, Philippines, which will have courses by Nicklaus Design, KJ Choi and Faldo Design; a new golf course by Greg Norman’s firm for the Moon Palace Punta Cana resort in the Dominican Republic; the Mackenzie & Ebert renovation of La Moye Golf Club on the island of Jersey; the new Peter Harradine-designed Capital Hills course, which is part of a huge development in Islamabad, Pakistan; and Wichita CC, where Tripp Davis has completed an infrastructure-focused renovation for the Kansas club.

Elsewhere, our news section includes the proposals by King Collins Dormer for Royal Dornoch in Scotland, the Gil Hanse renovation of Royal Sydney in Australia, the new Scarecrow course that DMK Golf Design has created for Gamble Sands and insight from Canadian architect Jason Miller on the new Timehri Sands golf course that is being built in Guyana.

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