The multiple-play features of Island Hills Golf Club, Centerville, Mich., was recently profiled on Golf Channel’s “Morning Drive.” Ray Hearn, ASGCA was the course designer and also led the work on recent renovations. Heearn, recently named by Golf...
The American Society of Golf Architects has signed on as a Leading Supporting Association for the 2014 India Golf Expo. The Expo will be held March 6-7, 2014 at Oxford Golf & Country Club, Pune, India. ASGCA was invited to participate by the Indian Golf Industry...
Tom McBroom, ASGCA, enhanced the work he did designing Granite Golf Club in Stouffville, Ontario, Canada in 2001 by adding a just-completed short game academy. As noted by “Golf Course Architecture,” McBroom, “converted two holes from the underused...
Palos Verdes Golf Club in Los Angeles, recently completed a $1.3 million renovation, headed by Todd Eckenrode, ASGCA Associate and Origins Golf Design. As reported by “Golf Course Architecture,” the project included bunkering, new chipping areas on each...
Two new facilities from ASCGA Vice President Lee Schmidt and Brian Curley, ASGCA, are near completion and scheduled to open in China in spring 2014. The two courses are Silk Road and a second, 27-hole project in Chengdu. As Schmidt-Curley reports: * The first layout...
The number of registered golfers in Europe is up in 2013. Twenty years of stable growth was followed in 2011 and 2012 by market downturns. The recent increase is partly attributable to significant increases in players in France, Germany and the Netherlands. This...
