When I moved back to DC a few years ago, I was less than thrilled with the public golf options that were available. Mostly they consist of poorly designed high-end daily fee courses and bottom of the barrel municipal courses. I decided to check out the University of Maryland Golf Course as it was close [...]
Posts under ‘Golf Course Design’
MYSTIC DUNES
Before playing Mystic Dunes, I had no idea that Champions Tour Player and NBC golf analyst Gary Koch was in the design business. I wish that I still didn’t. A friend set up the game and I had no idea what I was getting myself into and even after the decent first hole, I still [...]
LIBERTY NATIONAL
Geoff Shackelford has done a great job of scouring the press for player reaction to the awful looking Liberty National (here and here). I was pretty amused by a quote from co-designer Tom Kite that were in an article in the New York Daily News by Hank Gola. On Liberty National’s lack of critical acclaim, [...]
PARAISO DEL MAR GOLF CLUB
EDITOR’S NOTE: This piece is written By Quentin Lutz, head of Qonnect Partners and the youngest person to play Golf Magazine’s World Top 100. Quentin formerly worked for Arthur Hills in business development.
The Paraiso del Mar Golf Club, the first of two planned golf courses for the Paraiso del Mar development in the city of [...]
COMMON GROUND #3/#4
I am on the road, so I will keep this brief. This video features Eric Iverson of Renaissance Golf talking about the third and fourth holes at Common Ground in Denver. It shows the holes during construction and this past spring after the courses opening.
For a more general discussion of the course, see here.
BALLYNEAL 2009- BACK NINE
The back nine at Ballyneal is every bit as good as the front, if not better. While it may not have any holes as good as the seventh, I believe that top to bottom it is one of the best nines in golf. To me the tenth is a great par four that rewards the [...]
OLD MAC #11- THE ROAD HOLE
Another great video of Old Mac. I won’t editorialize too much, but I do think it interesting that both the road hole green and the redan (11 & 12) at Old Mac do not have any bunkers behind them. It certainly makes for manageable recovery shots even though there will be less chance for a [...]
CH’S PHOTO OF THE WEEK- CASTLE COURSE
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 [...]
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).
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