Adam Lawrence

Mar 5, 2025 | golfcoursearchitecture.net | Adam Lawrence

Golf Club Föhr in Germany’s North Frisian Islands celebrates its centenary this year with a wholly reconstructed golf course. The club was founded in 1925 and played over a nine-hole course designed by Bernhard von Limburger, but this was lost after the war. Anglo-Dutch architect Frank Pennink built nine holes on a new site next to the island’s airstrip in the 1960s, and the course was extended to 18 in 1990, built by the locals to a plan from Don Harradine.

Feb 20, 2025 | golfcoursearchitecture.net | Adam Lawrence

Golf was born by the sea. The first golf courses, in Scotland, were created at the shore because the land there, which, of course, we know as links, was fundamentally useless for agriculture, due to its impoverished soil. And, as a result, to this day, playing golf by the sea feels right in a way that no other location does.

Dec 10, 2024 | property-investor-news.com | Adam Lawrence

So - the year is drawing to a close. Did you hit your goals in 2024? Or do you find yourself increasingly paralysed by the next crazy lurch in the mortgage market, governmentally, geopolitically, or the likes? A word of advice on that point. I’m very plugged in to all of that and am an active and keen commentator. I also appreciate my complete lack of power and influence on the gilts market and the resulting interest rates.

Nov 28, 2024 | golfcoursearchitecture.net | Adam Lawrence

Architect Brian Curley is very clear about the roots of the style of design that has created what many term a second Golden Age of golf architecture: “Today’s courses can be traced back to Pete.” He continues: “Even though his work looks nothing like the great courses being built nowadays, the underlying principles are his.” The late Pete Dye will go down as the greatest mentor of architectural talent in the game’s history.

Nov 7, 2024 | golfcoursearchitecture.net | Adam Lawrence

Dozens, perhaps hundreds, of courses have been through a restoration project since the movement began to gain traction 40 years ago. But mostly restoration is a once-and-done thing: it is pretty rare for a course to be restored and, only a few years later, go under the knife again. Donald Ross came to eastern Iowa in 1915, early in his illustrious career, and extended the Cedar Rapids course, which had originally been nine, to eighteen holes.