Jones, ASGCA and Bergin, ASGCA, complete Winter Haven renovation

A major renovation at the 18-hole Country Club of Winter Haven (Orlando, Fla.) has been completed and the course reopened. The project was led by ASGCA Past President Rees Jones and Bill Bergin, ASGCA Associate. “Golf Course Archtiecture” magazine reports...

Lloyd Clifton, ASGCA Fellow, dies at age 89

Lloyd M. Clifton, Sr., a Fellow of the American Society of Golf Course Architects and a founding member of the design firm Clifton, Ezell, Clifton Golf Design Group (CEC Design Group), died Dec. 10, 2013. He was 89. Clifton worked with fellow ASGCA member Kenny Ezell,...

Turface distributor meeting focuses on education from field managers

Turface Athletics™ utilized its industry partners to provide sports field management education to more than 100 distributor representatives who attended the company’s distributor meeting Nov. 5-7 in Orlando, Fla. Turface® distributors from across the country gathered...

2016 Olympic Course design update from Hanse, ASGCA

It may be the most-discussed new course design and construction happening in the world today. Gil Hanse, ASGCA, provided background and a project update on the 2016 Summer Olympic Games project to the Golf Channel. Hanse discussed how he approached the initial Request...

What is “course routing” all about? Coore, ASGCA explains

One of an architect’s great challenges is looking at a piece of land and “seeing” how the completed course may look. But how does it happen? Bill Coore, ASGCA, illustrated his process for Cabot Cliffs in Nova Scotia for Golf Channel. Cabot Cliffs,...

Mandell’s “Legendary Evolution of Pinehurst” available

Looking for that perfect holiday gift? Richard Mandell, ASGCA, may have proviided the answer. His book, “The Legendary Evolution of Pinehurst, Home of American Golf” has been published. The book, from T. Eliot Press, “is a completely re-designed and...