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Principles of Golf Architecture
By Richard Mandell
 

The banking industry, the automobile industry, the homebuilding industry, the golf industry. They all have one common bond: Many people...

I am usually very keen on sniffing out a fake lead. In my business, the number of “tire-kickers” far exceeds the ones who are genuinely...

“We Need Change!” On Tuesday, January 20th, an historic event takes place in our nation’s capital as Barack Obama takes the oath as...

With my past few blogs, I have shared my perspective on the broad-reaching definition of golf course architecture. As evidenced by my...

Architecture, engineering, art, design: All words and concepts that are part of our everyday vernacular. These words are used...

The most intrinsic quality of the game of golf is communing with nature, even when it may be ‘cart path only’. Unlike many other games,...

As discussed previously golf architecture is among many things, engineering. If you ask an egotistical landscape architect what civil...

Thanksgiving is a time of reflection (as always) and this year the reflections are bittersweet for the golf industry. In fact, it’s more...

What is golf architecture? Is it just simple design? Or is it art, environmental science, engineering, land planning? The obvious answer...

One of the many definitions of the word “rub” is “an accident, good or bad”. In the rules of golf, a “rub of the green” occurs when a...

I just returned from the 2008 Urban Land Institute Fall Meeting currently underway in Miami, Florida, focusing my time on the component...

After years of watching it unfold, it has come to light: the golf industry was way ahead of the curve when it came to fiscal...