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Royal Dornoch has become the first golf course in Europe to install Toro's new GDC-controlled irrigation system.

Pat Ruddy's self-published memoir of his years spent creating his course at the European Club, is everything anyone who has ever had contact with the man would expect.

Golf architect Richard Mandell (author of this month's Pioneer piece on Donald Ross, see p26) has put together something truly monumental with this volume.

Canada's greatest golf architect richly deserves this tribute from the leading lights in his country's golf industry today.

On 27 June, the Texas Hill Country region was subjected to as much as 19 inches of rain in just a four-hour period.

This year's annual Thanksgiving weekend Skins Game will showcase a new design by a British architect in the US.

Course construction is well underway here amid the tropical dunescape of Vietnam's fastest growing resort destination, where a Colin Montgomerie signature design will soon stand as the area's first 18-hole layout.

Kingennie Country Resort in Scotland has opened a new nine-hole course designed by architect Graeme Webster of Niblick Golf Design.

Donald Ross may well be the most misunderstood golf architect of all time, says Richard Mandell.

Is Royal Dornoch about to lose its status as the most northerly great golf course?

Few will have heard of him, but many have played the holes he laid out. Richard Goodale argues that Archie Simpson deserves far more attention.

The pretty lakeside resort of Bled in Slovenia has a slight aura of faded grandeur to it.

If the current minor vogue for 'classic' styles of golf design that has seen courses such as Pacific Dunes, Sebonack and Erin Hills grab attention among architectural buffs and golfers alike can be dated to one particular point in time, it

Fifteen students currently working their way through the European Institute of Golf Course Architects (EIGCA) diploma programme, three tutors, a visiting lecturer and a number of observers, including one from GCA, descended on the Victoria Golf Club in

The 1999 Open, held at the Carnoustie links on the north-east coast of Scotland, was one of the most memorable, and controversial, in the Championship's long history.

With an ever-increasing supply of destinations to tempt the golfing tourist, building a successful golf resort has never been more difficult/

The process of developing a successful high-end golf resort is well-understood.

The new golf course at Gary Player's former South African residence, Blair Atholl, opened on Saturday 21 April.

Nick Faldo and project architect Guy Hockley are close to completing Faldo Design's first golf course project in Portugal.

Architect Gene Bates has finished the first phase of a major renovation of Bayonet Golf Course in Monterey, California.

The famous winter resort of Cortina d'Ampezzo, host of the 1956 Winter Olympics and home to the Italian jet set and glitterati, is finally to acquire an 18 hole golf course.

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