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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.

US golf architects Coore and Crenshaw have opened their latest creation, the Saguaro course at the We-Ko-Pa resort in Scottsdale, Arizona.

The BTME and Clubhouse event 'Harrogate Week' will be taking place from 21-25 January, featuring over two hundred exhibitors covering the whole of the groundcare industry.

KPMG has conducted its first Golf Benchmark Survey in the EMEA region, collecting comparable information regarding the operational and financial performance of 800 golf courses in 27 countries.

Cape Breton Island, in Nova Scotia, Canada, the location of Stanley Thompson's legendary Highlands Links is to be the site for a new course designed by Nick Faldo's company.

Trump International Golf Links, Scotland has filed its outline planning application to Aberdeenshire Council for proposed resort facilities including the hotel, clubhouse, golf practice facilities, holiday homes and golf lodges as well as additional resor

Architect Rolf-Stephan Hansen has completed shaping 17 holes of the Budersand project on the German island of Sylt.

Golf architecture aficionados often bemoan the negative impact that club and ball technology has had on classic golf courses.

Howard Swan, who has worked on many of Braid's courses, describes the life and legacy of the Scottish member of the Great Triumvirate.

Routing "It is both necessary and desirable that the holes should be laid out as suggested by the lie of the land, every natural obstacle being taken advantage of"

Golf course design, grass choice, and turf management are all intimately linked and unless they co-exist harmoniously the way a golf course plays and looks can be adversely affected for generations.

If golf was once a good walk, spoiled or otherwise, for many it is now a ride. Has the golf cart, and the infrastructure that goes with it, changed the game for good or ill?

With the Open Championship having returned to Royal Liverpool for the first time in 40 years in 2006, attention has naturally been drawn to some of the other links that have hosted the championship in the past.

A recent site visit by GCA revealed good progress on the construction of St Andrews' new Course Number 7.

The restoration of the 18 hole golf course at Askernish in the Western Isles of Scotland, originally designed by Old Tom Morris in 1892 (GCA issue 4), is to go ahead this winter.