Adam Lawrence

3 weeks ago | golfcoursearchitecture.net | Adam Lawrence

Twice a Cambridge golf Blue. Recruited by famed golf writer and architect Donald Steel to work in his booming design business. A long-time R&A member. It is easy to look at Martin Ebert’s CV and conclude he must be some sort of scion of the British ruling classes. But his background is in fact significantly more normal: he discovered golf by watching tournaments on television. “Maybe it was the sight of Augusta that really sparked my interest,” he says.

1 month ago | golfcoursearchitecture.net | Adam Lawrence

We can argue until we are blue in the face whether a golf course is a work of art. The Oxford English Dictionary defines art as ‘the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination… producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power’. In architecture, whether buildings or golf, there is obviously creative skill and imagination, but the works are appreciated primarily for their function – as an office, a home… or a golf course.

2 months 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 months 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.

2 months 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.