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Principles of Golf Architecture
By Richard Mandell
 

It looks as though the famed Heritage Classic, played at Pete Dye’s Harbour Town Golf Links has found a title sponsor, keeping the PGA...

Augusta, Ga. April 6, 2011 – Although the temperature is still struggling to pass fifty degrees in much of the southeast, we know spring...

The greatest upset in golfing history happened last Sunday, much larger than Francis Ouimet’s victory at The Country Club nearly a...

I once got chastised for not raking a bunker “properly” when caddying at the 1989 LPGA Greater Washington Open as my player was...

The Bob Hope Classic had only two of the top thirty golfers in the world participate (and only six of the top fifty). To me, that is more...

My personal battle between the business of golf architecture and my avocation that is golf architecture is a struggle on many fronts. As...

Most people would rather watch paint dry than watch a golf tournament on television. Golfers as a whole are an odd bunch and what...

I recently made my seventh trip to China in the past year. The first two trips were to investigate new development opportunities and the...

In: Aronimink, St. George’s, The Old White Course, Sedgefield Out: TPC Avenel, Glen Abbey, Liberty National Although ten TPC courses...

Too many bunkers at Whistling Straits. That is the outcry since Dustin Johnson’s unfortunate incident on at the 72nd hole of the...

To me, utilizing the ground to gain a strategic advantage is vital to great golf course design. This begins with the routing process as a...

Twenty word tease: Let’s focus not on what the professional gleans from this event. Instead, let’s look toward the average golfer’s...

Twenty word tease: Phil Mickelson apparently decided to wait for Tiger’s return to make a statement – the best way to stoke a rivalry....

Twenty word tease: There are perks to being a golf architect. One of those landed on my desk just weeks before the Masters. I’ve eaten...

I hear they got this thing that is round – it’s called a wheel. I’ve also been privy to this little known fact – red means stop; green...

I’ve just returned from another one of my planes, trains, and automobiles trips (see past Golf Course Design Today Blogs) to San Diego...

Recently I noticed a golf channel advertisement touting their broadcast of the SBS Championship at Kapalua Plantation (what most of us...

I had the pleasure of interviewing LPGA Tour star Natalie Gulbis when she was recently in Pinehurst for the 2009 RSM McGladrey Team...

Athletes should not be role models, but unfortunately by default our society has made them out to be because of our obsession with fame....

I recently had the pleasure of playing The Ocean Course on Kiawah Island. You remember The Ocean Course, don’t you? An incredible setting...