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If Links of Heaven makes one want immediately to jump on a plane and head for Ireland, what effect must this book have?

One of American golf architecture's key early works, the Old Course at the Bedford Springs resort in southern Pennsylvania is to reopen after a restoration by architect Ron Forse.

Scotland-based property developer FM Group has unveiled plans for a £682 million (US$1.35 billion) golf resort in the Cape Verde Islands, located in the mid-Atlantic Ocean.

Charles Blair Macdonald – the man who originally coined the term 'golf course architect' – will be inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame on 12 November.

A new golf course in Michigan, USA, is to incorporate the myths of the Native American tribe on whose land it is being built as part of its design.

PowerPlay Golf is to build its first course in the Scottish town of East Kilbride, as part of Playgolf Holdings's new public sports complex in the town.

The fifth playing of Seve Ballesteros's 'mini Ryder Cup', pitting Great Britain and Ireland against a team representing continental Europe, will take place this September on a course he helped to design.

The final nine holes at Faldo Design's new Cottonwood Hills course in Hutchinson, Kansas, USA, have just opened.

Marketing golf course architecture was the theme of the annual conference of the European Institute of Golf Course Architects (EIGCA), held recently in Portmarnock, Ireland.

Swan Golf Designs is progressing with its two-year renovation plan at the Karnataka Golf Association in Bangalore, India.

KPMG's fourth annual Golf Business Forum brought over 250 delegates from 40 countries leading golf companies to Budapest in May.

Only Severiano Ballesteros can rival Tony Jacklin's importance in the development of European golf.

Sustainable development is a problematic phrase.

Numerous times over the last few years I have heard that Stanley Thompson's original design for Allandale Golf Club in Canada was still completely intact.

Like other Eastern European countries, Poland is currently something of a blind spot on the European golf map.

Today, one can rarely read an article about a golf course without seeing the word 'minimalism' somewhere in the description.

Are holes, and entire courses, that are based on someone else’s design themes somehow a lesser type of architecture? Adam Lawrence investigates.

Lester George has recaptured the glories of old by restoring the Greenbrier's Old White course, says Bruce Matson.

Golf marketing professionals tend to have a fairly free and easy way with words.

Three of the most famous golf images in the world originate from my home club, Conwy in north Wales. The three paintings are entitled 'Difficult Bunker', 'The Drive' and 'Putting Green', but as their locatio

When Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus shook hands on the Ailsa's eighteenth green after the Open of 1977, members of the R&A must have been rubbing theirs in glee.

For a creative process, golf design requires a remarkable degree of problem-solving skills.