A restoration to the famed Medinah Country Club No. 2 outside Chicago, by ASGCA Past President Rees Jones (Rees Jones, Inc.) includes the introduction of the Longleaf Tee System to members. The course, restored to Tom Bendelow’s original design, will re-open in...
Thad Layton, ASGCA, and Brandon Johnson (Arnold Palmer Design Company) sat down with Golf Channel to discuss the legacy of Palmer and his golf course architecture, along with new and ongoing work that has them traveling the United States and internationally. Layton...
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...
