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Bernhard Langer tells GCA he enjoys old-style golf, but prefers it without too much randomness.

Whoever first thought of building golf courses on Madeira was ambitious indeed.

The greatest golfer the world has seen, now running the world’s most successful course design firm.

Golf course developers are the key to the future of the industry.

Every golfer knows that the world's oldest courses are in Scotland, the home of the game.

Some concepts just seem to fit together perfectly; others, by contrast, appear completely at odds.

Dubai is like nothing else on earth.

The poor old punter. You can see the frustration.

It has taken eight years, but Mark Parsinen is on the cusp of making a much-anticipated return with his second Scottish links offering.

Architect Simon Gidman has completed a nine-hole addition to Stonebridge Golf Club in Coventry, England.

Royal Antwerp's Championship course, consistently voted the best golf course in Belgium and, after Pau in France, the second oldest course in mainland Europe, has just completed a major bunker restoration overseen by Dimitri van Hauwaert of Diamon

A well-known name is returning to the European Tour schedule from next year.

Design firm Harradine Golf has expanded into yet another new territory, in this case Khartoum in Sudan, where the company has recently started the construction of the country's first grass golf course.

Golf architect John Sanford has started work on Hacienda Bay, a new golf course located on the Mediterranean coast of northern Egypt.

Arizona-based architect Gary Stephenson has started a programme of renovation works at the Fairmont St Andrews resort (formerly known as St Andrews Bay).

Architect Rick Jacobson is to include an island green as part of his renovation of the East Course at the Hilton Indian Lakes Resort outside Chicago.

German architect Rolf-Stephan Hansen has finished the build of the Budersand golf course on the island of Sylt, close to the country's border with Denmark.

The late Fred Hawtree, a golf architect since 1938, edited the second volume of this anthology in 1999, towards the end of his life.

Not a golf architecture book, it's true, but Bob Labbance, who has coauthored this volume with Brian Siplo, has written extensively on the subject in the past, as, for example, in his history of golf course management, Keepers of the Green.

Plans are in place for a new golf and country club in County Cork, Ireland.

The Indoor Golf Arena, the world's largest indoor golf centre, is expected to be open in the Netherlands by 2010, with a number of local councils showing interest.