Dubai is like nothing else on earth.

The poor old punter. You can see the frustration.

It has taken eight years, but Mark Parsinen is on the cusp of making a much-anticipated return with his second Scottish links offering.

Architect Simon Gidman has completed a nine-hole addition to Stonebridge Golf Club in Coventry, England.

Royal Antwerp's Championship course, consistently voted the best golf course in Belgium and, after Pau in France, the second oldest course in mainland Europe, has just completed a major bunker restoration overseen by Dimitri van Hauwaert of Diamon

A well-known name is returning to the European Tour schedule from next year.

Design firm Harradine Golf has expanded into yet another new territory, in this case Khartoum in Sudan, where the company has recently started the construction of the country's first grass golf course.

Golf architect John Sanford has started work on Hacienda Bay, a new golf course located on the Mediterranean coast of northern Egypt.

Arizona-based architect Gary Stephenson has started a programme of renovation works at the Fairmont St Andrews resort (formerly known as St Andrews Bay).