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Golf development in southern Portugal is continuing apace.

Five years of planning and construction work have come to fruition for architect Jonathan Gaunt, who has completed a new 18-hole pay-and-play course at Burstwick Country Golf in East Yorkshire.

World number three golfer Phil Mickelson is the latest top pro to get into the signature design business.

It's ironic that last year's Ryder Cup, the biggest golf event to be held on the island of Ireland since the Open Championship made its one foray to Royal Portrush in 1951, should have been held at the K Club, an unabashed American-style p

For those with a flair for the melodramatic, the story might read: "The green that may have seen the final putts of some of the first Open Championships is to be destroyed to make way for an expansion of a horse racing track.

1775: Musselburgh Golf Club formed

Golf remains unknown to many Italians, but for some years, the profile of the game has been increasing.

We are treading a well worn path when we discuss innovations in golfing technology and the reciprocal effect that recent shifts have had on the game, but this could be the most serious issue that golf has ever had to deal with.

At Caldicott Hall in Norfolk, we're developing a site for 48 Svenskabin Swedish timber homes from KDM.

One only has to read the pages of Golf Course Architecture, with its regular announcements of new courses being built, to understand that golf development continues to grow at a rapid rate.

Slow play is one of the curses of modern golf and one solution to the problem lies in the hands of course architects.

How do budding architects get started? We talked to a number of relative newcomers to the business to find out.

The game of golf continues to develop around the world. Which golf markets will be the hotspots of the future?

It might have been one of the mildest autumns on record, but it didn't feel like it teeing off at The Carrick in October.

Time, we are continually told, is one of the biggest single obstacles to the growth of golf.

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) has come a long way since its formal inception in the USA over 35 years ago.

Tiger Woods has taken his presence in the golf industry a stage further by launching Tiger Woods Design – a golf course design company that plans to embark upon projects around the world.

Bandon Dunes, the Oregon, USA, golf resort, is to add a fourth course to its portfolio.

Colin Montgomerie, along with architecture practice European Golf Design, has been signed up to design an 18-hole tournament golf course and nine hole short course for the Riffa Golf and Residential Development Company in Bahrain.

This reissue of golf journalist – and former PGA Tour caddy – Brad Klein's collection of essays on golf, courses and design is not just a good read, but a terrific one.

OK, it's a coffee table book, but it's a very, very good one.

Computer Aided Design (CAD) has revolutionised the way golf courses are designed and most golf architecture firms now use a CAD system.