The Muskoka Bay Club in Gravenhurst, Ontario is a spectacular new semi-private golf course built on the rugged and wild landscape of the Canadian Shield.

The Golf Digest 100 Greatest Courses lists (GDG100) rank the stars of the golf course world.

California-based architect Kyle Phillips is busy at home but his highest profile work is on this side of the Atlantic. Toby Ingleton recently met Phillips at The Grove to talk design.

With an increasing number of mixed golf, housing and leisure developments springing up in Britain and Europe, masterplanning of sites is becoming ever more important.

A potential classic close to Stanley Thompson's famed Highland Links.

KPMG survey compares golf course development costs in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Scotland's Royal Dornoch is probably the world's most northerly great links, but that might not be the case in a few years' time.

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.