From bunker facing to “tee shot equity distance,” Richard Mandell, ASGCA, (Richard Mandell Golf Architecture) covers a broad range of golf course architecture topics in a “Tartan Talks” podcast with Golf Course Industry. Mandell, a branch of...
The recent updates to the Rules of Golf from the USGA and R&A have gotten ASGCA Past President Rick Robbins (Robbins & Associates International) to thinking. He shared his thoughts on “one of the least understood, most severe and most ignored penalties...
ASGCA Past President Robert Jones, Jr., (Robert Trent Jones II Golf Course Architects) is nearing completion of Hogs Head Golf Club, adjacent to the shoreline cliffs south of Waterville, Ireland. The layout will be unveiled in August 2017. A headlands course...
Work has begun on the renovation of Vestavia Country Club in Birmingham, Alabama. The project from Lester George, ASGCA, (George Golf Design) will update the playability at the course designed by George Cobb in 1951. Golf Course Architecture reports: Work commenced in...
Golf Course Industry magazine’s cover story features a detailed look at the hazards that consume much of a superintendents’ time. An ASGCA member provides perspective on the design – and elimination of – bunkers. Guy Cipriano writes, “Too...
Bill Bergin, ASGCA, a golf course architect protege of ASGCA Past President Bob Cupp, is the featured guest of “Tartan Talk” podcast from Golf Course Industry magazine. Bergin discusses the thougtful approach taken to tee placement, and more. Bergin also...