My most recent quest brought me to the seventh installment at the St.Andrews Links Trust, which is David Kidd’s Castle Course, an effort that brings some of the prominent aspects of modern golf design to the outskirts of golf’s home. While it is not perfect, in many spots it is quite beautiful, and it certainly [...]
Posts from ‘August, 2009’
JOSH SMITH- PART TWO
This is the second part of my interview with Josh Smith (first part, here). Josh relates how he decided to get into the maintenance side of the business while still pursuing his passion of oil painting. The video features more of Josh’s paintings. ( Video after the jump).
POSTCARDS FROM EUROPE- NORWAY
SAS Ladies Masters, Lavrik Golf Club, Larvik, Norway
June 29th – July 4th, 2009
It was nearing the two-month mark of my travels and I was beginning to seriously reconsider the year’s packing. The cool weather gear had been largely left untouched as week after week of warm, sunny weather greeted us at the customs counter. [...]
SPREAD THE WORD
For anybody in the golf industry, answering questions about golf’s negative impact on the environment, is a weekly occurrence if not a daily one. Now the newspaper of record, the New York Times, has published an article that helps make the argument that golf has actually been one of the leaders in sustainable water use. [...]
CHERRY HILLS COUNTRY CLUB
I was fortunate enough to make it out to Cherry Hills this year to see the work that Renaissance Golf completed last fall. Cherry Hills has never been my favorite course. When I lived in Denver, I attended a caddy orientation class there but opted to loop at Denver Country Club because I liked the [...]
COMMON GROUND
The game of golf is at a crossroads. We can chose to continue develop costly and overdone courses that are too difficult and too expensive to play or we can look for new solutions. At Common Ground Golf Course near Denver, Tom Doak and the rest of the Renaissance team have reworked an uninspiring and [...]
POSTCARDS FROM EUROPE- IRELAND
AIB Ladies Irish Open, Portmarnock Hotel & Golf Links, Dublin, Ireland
June 22nd – 28th, 2009
When I think of Ireland immediately my mind conjures up all sorts of images, many of them green (and not in the environmental sense). The Emerald Isle, wily leprechauns, four-leaf clovers, St. Patrick’s Day, boiled potatoes and cabbage, Joyce’s Dubliners, Guinness, [...]
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