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Oakmont: An interview with Gil Hanse

With the 2025 US Open arriving at Oakmont, Richard Humphreys spoke with the architect, who renovated the course in 2023, about what to expect

Martin Ebert: Design journey

With a portfolio that includes eight of the ten Open venues, Mackenzie & Ebert occupies an enviable position in the golf design industry. Adam Lawrence spoke with principal Martin Ebert to learn how they got there

Designs for the big screen

Chad Goetz and Agustin Piza discuss their design decisions for the virtual holes that featured in the first season of TGL

Bob Harrison: Wizard of Oz

The Australian designer has had a long career and, like many of his countrymen, has spent much of it away from home. Adam Lawrence listened to his tales from the road

Ben Cowan-Dewar: Shock and awe

Golf development firm Cabot now has properties in six countries. Richard Humphreys speaks with co-founder and CEO Ben Cowan-Dewar about what makes a great site, selection of golf course architects, and more

Team building

Turfgrass has launched its US arm with the appointment of John Lawrence, Adam Moeller and Brad Owen. Richard Humphreys speaks with them, Turfgrass founder John Clarkin and director of agronomy Julian Mooney to find out more

Brian Curley: Life of Brian

The designer has surely clocked up more air miles than anyone else in the business. Adam Lawrence caught up with him in between flights to discuss his career and his new venture with Jim Wagner

Oakmont: An interview with Gil Hanse

With the 2025 US Open arriving at Oakmont, Richard Humphreys spoke with the architect, who renovated the course in 2023, about what to expect

Martin Ebert: Design journey

With a portfolio that includes eight of the ten Open venues, Mackenzie & Ebert occupies an enviable position in the golf design industry. Adam Lawrence spoke with principal Martin Ebert to learn how they got there

Designs for the big screen

Chad Goetz and Agustin Piza discuss their design decisions for the virtual holes that featured in the first season of TGL

Bob Harrison: Wizard of Oz

The Australian designer has had a long career and, like many of his countrymen, has spent much of it away from home. Adam Lawrence listened to his tales from the road

Ben Cowan-Dewar: Shock and awe

Golf development firm Cabot now has properties in six countries. Richard Humphreys speaks with co-founder and CEO Ben Cowan-Dewar about what makes a great site, selection of golf course architects, and more

Team building

Turfgrass has launched its US arm with the appointment of John Lawrence, Adam Moeller and Brad Owen. Richard Humphreys speaks with them, Turfgrass founder John Clarkin and director of agronomy Julian Mooney to find out more

Brian Curley: Life of Brian

The designer has surely clocked up more air miles than anyone else in the business. Adam Lawrence caught up with him in between flights to discuss his career and his new venture with Jim Wagner

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Pizá Golf shares design plan for course in new Mexican residential community

Golf course design firm Pizá Golf has shared its design for an 18-hole course planned for the heart of the new Zitara residential community being developed in Aquascalientes, Mexico. 

The 7,000-plus yard par-71 layout will include three par fives on the front nine and three par threes on the back nine, including an island green seventeenth. 

“We’re exceptionally proud of the golf course and master plan at Zitara,” said golf course architect Agustin Pizá. “It will offer its members a world-class experience of beauty with the emblematic views of Picacho mountain, as well as a challenge with the combinations of strategic, penal and heroic holes with undulating fairways, elevated fairway bunkers and loads of vertical expressions.” 

Holes three, four, five, eleven and fifteen have direct views of the mountain, and golfers will be able to play the six-hole floodlit closing stretch at night. 

“I designed Zitara for the members to discover something new or different each time they play the golf course through design nuances,” said Pizá. “I consider this approach an ensemble, as each hole interrelates with each other.” 

A gamified two-sided driving range adjacent to restaurants and terraces is also planned. 

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    The par three seventeenth at Zitara in Mexico will play to an island green

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    The course is planned for the heart of a new residential community in Mexico

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    Several holes will have views towards the Cerro El Picacho landscape

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