Derek Duncan

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Architecture Editor at Golf Digest

Architecture Editor @GolfDigest. Host, Feed the Ball podcast. University of Colorado. Dad. https://t.co/DXDVheYkk0…

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Articles

'The Last Meal': Inside the other three-hole stretch at Quail Hollow that will decide who wins the 2025 PGA Championship

1 week ago | golfdigest.com | Derek Duncan

The final three holes at Quail Hollow Club, site of next week's 2025 PGA Championship in Charlotte, are notoriously known as the “Green Mile,” a reference to the color of the floor that death row inmates walk on the way to the electric chair in the Stephen King novel and movie of the same name.
Salon Vol. 31, ft. Riley Johns

1 week ago | feedtheball.com | Derek Duncan

Golf course designer Riley Johns joins Derek and Jim from his home in Canada to fill us in on his latest thoughts on course building and artistry. Johns has been splitting time between his own growing business with partner Keith Rhebb, leading projects for Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw, and even working with Jim on the renovation of St. Charles in Winnipeg, a club with nines by both Alister MacKenzie and Donald Ross.
Texas is booming with some of golf’s most exciting course projects

2 weeks ago | golfdigest.com | Derek Duncan

The bulldozers have been blazing in Florida and South Carolina. Georgia and Tennessee are warming up, and in 2023 Alabama debuted its first new course in nearly 20 years. It was only a matter of time before Texas jumped into the fire. For a state of its geographic and demographic heft, Texas lags its peers when it comes to great architecture.
Pinehurst announces its next new course, a Coore & Crenshaw layout on the Sandmines

3 weeks ago | golfdigest.com | Derek Duncan

When Pinehurst #10 opened a year ago, it marked the debut of not just the resort’s first new 18-hole course in 28 years but an entirely new project, called Sandmines. Sandmines is a satellite development on a 900-acre parcel of land several miles south of the main Pinehurst campus that the resort acquired 15 years ago.
I 44 capolavori di Augusta

1 month ago | golfeturismo.it | Derek Duncan

Vi sveliamo come sono nati gli iconici bunker che difendonole 18 buche dell’Augusta National, veree proprie opere d’arte di sabbia che ogni anno regalano al pubblico istanti memorabili e clamorosi colpi di scena. La bellezza dell’Augusta NationalTra tutti i campi più rinomati al mondo per la loro bellezza, l’Augusta National è il più effimero. Fare semplicemente il suo nome evoca immagini di un verde impeccabile che irrompe in mezzo a tonalità di rosa brillante, rosso, giallo, verde e bianco.
Masters 2025: How Augusta National controls scoring with a hole cutter

1 month ago | golfdigest.com | Derek Duncan

Augusta National’s primary defense against the world’s greatest players has always been its greens. That was especially true until 20 years ago. Prior to the club narrowing certain fairways with pine trees (notably seven, 11, 15, 17 and 18) and the addition of the cut of light rough, players could attack the 30- to 80-yard-wide fairways aggressively. There was no option but for the greens to be formidable.
How Augusta National quietly transformed its iconic 13th hole

1 month ago | golfdigest.com | Derek Duncan

Consensus is hard to find. But almost everyone agrees the 13th hole at Augusta National is one of the world’s great par 5s. The role it plays in determining the outcome of the Masters each April certainly contributes to its fame, especially as players encounter it on the second nine on Sunday with the wall of pines and azaleas blooming down the left side and the four spectacle bunkers monitoring play from behind the green.
The changes at Augusta National's 16th hole, explained

1 month ago | golfdigest.com | Derek Duncan

The entire Augusta National property resonates aesthetically, especially during the Masters when everything is in bloom, but the par-3 16th is a focal point. Just steps off the 15th green, it sits in a kind of amphitheater with the hillside under the neighboring sixth hole (which is not visible) providing bleacher-like seating for patrons and the long pond between the tee and green reflecting pines and the surrounding activity.
The changes at Augusta National's third hole, explained

1 month ago | golfdigest.com | Derek Duncan

It’s possible to overlook the complexity of the short par-4 third. In one regard, players can simply hit a long iron or hybrid club off the tee into position short of the fairway bunker complex on the left, setting up a full wedge or short iron into the elevated green. But the shortness of the hole adds a psychological element to the equation—the belief that a 3 is out there for the taking—that can override prudency.
The changes at Augusta National's second hole, explained

1 month ago | golfdigest.com | Derek Duncan

The par-5 second hole is one of the most exciting at Augusta National, but it’s only been during the last 20-odd years that television viewers have had a chance to see it. Before the early 2000s, CBS broadcasts went live well after the Saturday and Sunday leaders were beyond it. It starts in the level north corner of the property behind the first green before plunging more than 70 feet downhill, turning to the left past a yawning fairway bunker.