Golf Course Architecture

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.

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.

4 weeks ago | golfcoursearchitecture.net | Richard Humphreys

Golf course architect Steve Smyers has designed a new course for the Reynolds Lake Oconee community, southeast of Atlanta, Georgia. Fenmoor will become the community’s eighth course when it opens in autumn 2026, joining the Preserve, Great Waters, National, Oconee, Landing, Creek Club and Richland layouts. Located in the northeast corner of the 12,000-acre community, the Fenmoor site features marshy land, native grasses and rolling hillsides.

4 weeks ago | golfcoursearchitecture.net | Richard Humphreys

Trump Turnberry in Scotland will reopen its Ailsa course on 1 June following a renovation by Martin Ebert of Mackenzie & Ebert. Construction began in October 2024, with Ebert renovating the seventh and eighth holes. Work on the par-five seventh includes relocating the green to a new position close to the site’s coastline, while the par-four eighth has had its tees relocated to the right in order to straighten the fairway from the tee and eliminate the blind approach shot.

1 month ago | golfcoursearchitecture.net | Richard Humphreys

The Country Club of Harrisburg, in the state capital of Pennsylvania, has hired Nagle Design Works to develop a long-term masterplan to return the course closer in style to that designed by original architect, William Flynn. “The club was founded in 1896, but Flynn built the golf course in 1917 – it was one of his first designs,” said Jim Nagle.