Toby Ingleton

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You shall go to the ball

2 weeks ago | golfcoursearchitecture.net | Toby Ingleton

Every now and then a golf club may face an uncommon challenge, with no precedent that can inform the solution. At the Waldorf Astoria Golf Club, set within the grounds of Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida, that came in the form of plans to build an enormous ballroom on the site of its eighteenth green. This wasn’t quite the glass slipper that director of golf club operations Rob Turner and golf course superintendent Reese Patterson may have wanted to receive.
South course at Apogee Club: New scenery for second act

1 month ago | golfcoursearchitecture.net | Toby Ingleton

Amidst all the new private clubs emerging in south Florida, there are several aspects that combine to make Apogee Club unique: an absence of real estate, extensive practice facilities, a template short layout and, leading the list, a choice of three eighteen-hole courses. The first of those, Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner’s West course, was completed in 2023. Its strength is subtlety (several spectacularly bold greens aside), occupying gently contoured ground with only a few feet of elevation change.
Gary Johnston named president of EIGCA at meeting in Dornoch

1 month ago | golfcoursearchitecture.net | Toby Ingleton

Gary Johnston of European Golf Design (EGD) has become the new president of the European Institute of Golf Course Architects (EIGCA), following a ceremony at the institute’s annual meeting and 25th anniversary celebrations in Dornoch, Scotland. Johnson has been with EGD for over 20 years, collaborating with Ian Woosnam for the Pirin CC and Lighthouse Golf Resort designs in Bulgaria, and Colin Montgomerie for newbuilds in Morocco and Turkey.
Tom Doak’s Old Petty layout at Cabot Highlands to preview in 2025

Nov 13, 2024 | golfcoursearchitecture.net | Toby Ingleton

The new Old Petty course at Cabot Highlands in Inverness, Scotland, will open for walking-only preview play in August and September 2025. Tee times will be made available to golfers who also have a reservation at Cabot Highlands’ Castle Stuart course. Tom Doak designed and routed Old Petty, with associate Clyde Johnson taking the lead on the project. Agronomist and shaper Chris Haspell, who worked on the original Castle Stuart links, also assisted.
Delray Dunes reopens following renovation led by Scot Sherman

Nov 10, 2024 | golfcoursearchitecture.net | Toby Ingleton

Delray Dunes Golf & Country Club in Boynton Beach, Florida, has reopened its 1969 Pete Dye layout following the implementation of a new master plan by Scot Sherman. In what he refers to as a ‘sympathetic restoration’, Sherman, who previously worked with the Dyes, has brought back features that have been altered over the years, as well as restoring some green contours and introducing new features inspired by other Dye designs from the period.
Trevor Dormer begins construction at Old Dane in Nebraska

Oct 16, 2024 | golfcoursearchitecture.net | Toby Ingleton

Architect Trevor Dormer has started construction work on the rebuild of the Old Dane course in northeast Nebraska, USA. Work began with the excavation of a two acre lake, to store irrigation water and provide around 40,000 cubic yards of fill material for Dormer to reshape the extremely flat golf course.
Sahalee CC: Out of the woods

Aug 20, 2024 | golfcoursearchitecture.net | Toby Ingleton

The enduring appeal of Sahalee Country Club – where in the late 1960s Ted Robinson carved 27 holes from evergreen forest just east of Seattle – is a reminder that great golf design is not a one-size-fits-all exercise. With its single-file fairways framed by towering firs and cedars, Sahalee exemplifies a style of course – where each hole sits in natural isolation – that some decades ago was considered the ultimate golf experience.
Tom Doak expresses desire to build second course at Cape Kidnappers

Jul 29, 2024 | golfcoursearchitecture.net | Toby Ingleton

Golf course architect Tom Doak has spoken about his desire to create a second course at the Cape Kidnappers resort on the southeast coast of New Zealand’s North Island. “The very first time I went to Cape Kidnappers was the end of 2001, and I was late,” recalled Doak. “They picked me up in a helicopter and landed me on the point down below.
A test for all at Broken Sound

Jun 20, 2024 | golfcoursearchitecture.net | Toby Ingleton

One good test of a golf course’s ability to accommodate players of all standards is a pro-celebrity tournament. So when the PGA Tour Champions’ new James Hardie Pro Football Hall of Fame Invitational debuts in 2025, we’ll find out whether golf course architects Rees Jones and Bryce Swanson have met their brief for the renovation of the host venue: the Old course at Broken Sound Club in Boca Raton, Florida. The opening two days of the tournament will see 78 tour players joined by 26 NFL legends.
Revival of Wellman provides boost for rural community

Mar 28, 2024 | golfcoursearchitecture.net | Toby Ingleton

Wellman Golf Club in Johnsonville, South Carolina, has been reborn as a municipal facility, following the resurrection of a course that had been closed since 2010. With nine holes originally laid out in 1966 by Ellis Maples and nine added by Maples and Ed Seay five years later, the former Wellman Country Club course has now been completely renovated by Rees Jones and design associate Bryce Swanson. Funding for the project was largely covered by a Florence County ‘penny tax’.