Geoffrey Cornish, 1914-2012
I just learned that Geoffrey Cornish, one of the most influential golf course architects of the last one hundred years,… Read more »
Golf Course Architecture
The China Golf Market: An Interview in China Real Estate Business
This interview first appeared in “China Real Estate Business,” a Chinese-language newspaper with a national circulation in China, on November… Read more »
The Golf Capital of America: The Road to Bandon Dunes
In its November, 2011 issue, Golf Digest finally gets around to recognizing that Oregon’s Bandon Dunes is the “Number One Golf… Read more »
The Implications of Charles Mann’s New Book, 1493, for Golf’s Future in China
Charles Mann’s observations about China’s role in the forging of the modern world in his brilliant new book, 1493: Uncovering… Read more »
How Rory McIlroy’s Practice Ground Helped Him Win the US Open.
When Rory McIlroy was still an amateur, he visited Padraig Harrington’s house in suburban Dublin, where he eyed the Claret… Read more »
Golf Course Designer’s Employee Kidnapped in China
Last week, the executive director’s office of the American Society of Golf Course Architects in Chicago sent out a note… Read more »
Columbia Sportswear CEO Tim Boyle Buys Gearhart Golf Links.
There hasn’t been a lot of great news in the golf business lately, so when I heard that Tim Boyle,… Read more »
The Myth of Course Obsolescence and the Influence of Non-conforming Equipment
My next door neighbor/brother-in-law/Luckiest Man in the World/the new Nostradamus, Lee Barrett, poked his head in the door this morning… Read more »
Venezuelan Golf on the Firing Line
The New York Times reported on December 28, 2010, that Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez is threatening to expropriate the land… Read more »
The Ping Dynasty
Steve Forrest is a principal in the international golf course design firm, Hills & Forrest, and also my colleague and… Read more »
