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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.

KPMG's newly published Golf Benchmark Survey in EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) should revitalise an international business starved of quality information and provide industry stakeholders with essential performance and financial benchma

Some articles write themselves.Occasionally as a golf writer you visit a course that is either so overwhelmingly wonderful, or so horrific, the response is almost automatic.

Royal Porthcawl Golf Club in Wales, a regular host for prominent events including the Amateur Championship on six occasions, the Walker Cup, Curtis Cup, and the Home Internationals, has been refurbished by Welsh architect David Williams.

The first World Golf Championship (WGC) event of the year, the Accenture Match Play, is moving from its previous home in California to the newly constructed South Course at the Gallery club near Tucson, Arizona.

British design firm Mackenzie and Ebert is starting 2007 with a busy roster of new projects and renovations.

The Karnataka Golf Association course in Bangalore, India, is to be renovated by British firm Swan Golf Designs.

Developed by Macdonald Hotels & Resorts and situated adjacent to the recently refurbished Macdonald Aviemore Highland Resort, the Spey Valley golf course has opened for limited play, and will be open for full membership in Spring 2007.

The Ladies European Tour (LET) has awarded the 2011 Solheim Cup to an as-yet unbuilt course at Killeen Castle, County Meath, Ireland.