Adam Lawrence

2 weeks ago | golfcoursearchitecture.net | Adam Lawrence

In the last issue of GCA, Sandy was to be found on the tee of the par-five fourth, Trá Mór (meaning ‘big beach’), on the St Patrick’s Links course at Rosapenna in County Donegal, Ireland. Rosepenna, essentially the world’s oldest golf resort, waited a long time for its best course, but Tom Doak’s design of St Patrick’s has been universally acclaimed, currently ranked as the 49 best course in the world by Golf magazine; a lot of us who have seen it think it will go higher.

2 weeks ago | golfcoursearchitecture.net | Adam Lawrence

Across society as a whole, the game of golf does not have the most inclusive reputation. Though golf began as a game played by all social classes in the Scottish towns in which it was born, it evolved into a pastime largely for the wealthy, because clubs and balls were expensive.

4 weeks ago | golfcoursearchitecture.net | Adam Lawrence

In the last issue of GCA, Sandy was to be found on the tee of the par-five fourth, Trá Mór (meaning ‘big beach’), on the St Patrick’s Links course at Rosapenna in County Donegal, Ireland. Rosepenna, essentially the world’s oldest golf resort, waited a long time for its best course, but Tom Doak’s design of St Patrick’s has been universally acclaimed, currently ranked as the 49 best course in the world by Golf magazine; a lot of us who have seen it think it will go higher.

1 month ago | golfcoursearchitecture.net | Adam Lawrence

Australians, in general, like to travel. If the focus of the developed world can be said to be (historically at least) in Europe and North America, well, Australasia is a long way away from both. And Australia, because of the way it developed as a modern country, tends to breed a particular sort of person: friendly, laid back, optimistic and happy to travel.

2 months ago | 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.