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The 36-hole St Patrick's Golf Links complex in Donegal, Ireland, is to be redesigned by Nicklaus Design.

Construction is under way at Verdura, architect Kyle Phillips's new design in Sicily.

Royal Birkdale is to undergo significant alterations in preparation for the 2008 Open, the ninth time the championship will have visited the Lancashire links.

Martin Ebert discusses the importance of taking a sensible approach to designing a golf course.

Jayne Leyland considers how using different turfgrasses can create more sustainable golf courses.

For some, irrigation may be to blame for too-green grass, but properly used such a system can deliver firm conditions while protecting the golf course, says Adam Lawrence.

Adam Lawrence spoke to Loch Lomond GC chief executive Keith Williams about the club's development.

From a rubbish dump to a seventeenth century fortification.

Golf architects Weed Design have completed the renovation of Brookville GC, near Tampa in Florida.

The Isle of Eriska is a fantasy retreat.

The TPC at Sawgrass in Florida is being renovated to improve spectator viewing facilities and to make the course more resilient to bad weather.

The life of American architect AW Tillinghast, designer of courses such as Winged Foot and San Francisco Golf Club, is chronicled in Philip Young's new book.

Richard Latham is director of golf at Woodhall Spa and, as such, is well placed to dissect the architecture and history of the famous Lincolnshire course.

Success for the inaugral Business of Golf conference, hosted by the Golf Consultants Association.

Frontier Construction has used GPS technology to complete a green renovation/restoration project at Hidden Valley Country Club.

Davis Love III worries about the increasing cost of golf and would like to see a return to a more sustainable model, he tells GCA.

CB Macdonald, the creator of the National Golf Links of America is renowned as the father of American golf, says Jim Noyes.

American architect Tim Liddy has redesigned Peter Thomson's 1995 course at the home of golf.

The most free draining golf course?

The need to find a balance between housing and golf in Middle Eastern developments causes particular problems for architects, says Niall Glen of Harradine Golf.

What is the cost of a well designed course?

Going back as far as CB Macdonald’s ill-fated Lido, there have been expensive golf courses. But recently, the trickle of such projects has become a flood.