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Principles of Golf Architecture
By Richard Mandell
 

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

Are you kidding me? Selena, do you even play golf? Could you not have passed that back page SI assignment on to Chris Ballard or Phil...

I won’t deny that I am an unabashed Tiger Woods fan. He is my generation’s Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, and Ben Hogan. Although my...

So, when does a golf course architect keep a tree as part of a golf hole design and when does he not? In new construction the options are...

It has been over a month since my return from Beijing and my battle with the Chinese CDC over me going over the fence early at the...

I’ve been told that my blog is a little too, “essayist”, maybe a little too measured with the preaching of what I think golf course...

My favorite golf tournament each year has always been the U. S. Open. For me growing up as a budding golf course architect, the U. S....

At some point in the late eighties/early nineties, the National Golf Foundation declared that to keep up with the demand for the game of...

Suggestion number four to help balance the game and the business of golf is to eliminate the bells and whistles! Four different...

In discussing an economic stimulus for the golf industry, I pointed out five specifics that would help balance the game and the business...

For years now I have always wondered what will happen to all the old houses people are leaving to go to the hundreds of thousands of...

In my previous blog, I declared that I did not think the golf industry deserved an economic bailout from our new government. Instead, I...

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...