Rankings, Fazio and Camp Creek
Given the varieties of budget, location, sites, clients, temperament and eras, it’s fair to debate which golf courses are among… Read more »
Golf
Fleming Island is a Jacksonville No-Brainer
At first glance–from the road, the clubhouse, the scorecard–The Golf Club at Fleming Island looks like most 1990’s-early 2000’s Florida… Read more »
The Synchronicity of the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island
One of my favorite stories of Pete Dye involves the construction of the Ocean Course in 1989. Hurricane Hugo had just come aground… Read more »
Swimming in Circles with Tiburon
Sod-wall bunkers with crisp upper lips. Wall to wall fairways. Waste areas bleeding into the underbrush. Greens that bubble like… Read more »
The Shape of Things at Shingle Creek
Shingle Creek in south-central Orlando sits at the north end of the same basin of wetlands as Greg Norman’s Grande Lakes less than… Read more »
The Checklist–The 150-Yard Marker
Imagine a time when you had to go to a library or bookstore if you wanted to decipher an obscure… Read more »
Tracks of Engh at Fossil Trace
The hole people talk about the most at Fossil Trace, a public course in Golden just west of Denver, is… Read more »
Sanctuary Cove: Raynor, With Love
It may not win any beauty awards but Sanctuary Cove, one I-95 exit south of Brunswick, manages to be both… Read more »
An Evolving Nicklaus at Grand Haven
The two-shot holes are probably the strength of Grand Haven, a moderately high-end daily fee located in Palm Coast on… Read more »
Sugarloaf Mountain–A Central Florida Ideal
[Note: This course is permanently closed.] Sugarloaf Mountain should be the model for future golf course designs in Central Florida,… Read more »
