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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.

One of the most ambitious golf courses in Germany is currently under construction at Wittenbeck on the Baltic coast.

Anthony Edgeworth is one of golf's bestrespected photographers.

Veteran golf architects and historians Geoffrey Cornish and Michael Hurdzan, between them the designers of hundreds of courses and the authors of dozens of books, have produced this bibliography with the backing of all the world's four major group

The tenth anniversary edition of the Peugeotbacked guide to Europe's 'top 1,000' golf courses follows the well-proven format established by the previous books – a Michelin guide for golf courses, if you like.

Thomson Perrett & Lobb is designing a heathland style course on Turkey's Mediterranean coast.

At the recent Golf Business Forum, KPMG's Andrea Sartori invited visitors to look at the website www.golfbenchmark.com for information on the firm's golf benchmarking survey.

Golf in Scandinavia is on the up.

Set on a hillside a few miles inland of the Home of Golf, the Duke's Course has, since its opening a decade ago, been something of an outlier in St Andrews' golfing circles.