Golf Course Architecture

6 days ago | golfcoursearchitecture.net | Richard Humphreys

Fox Harb’r Resort in Nova Scotia, Canada, has unveiled its reimagined Ocean course. The revamped Ocean course is part of a plan, developed by Doug Carrick and Tom McBroom, to create two distinct 18-hole layouts. Work on the Ocean course includes nine new holes and reshaping the existing nine. The second layout, Vineyard, will be made in a similar fashion. Read more about the project and view renderings from Harris Kalinka.

1 week ago | golfcoursearchitecture.net | Richard Humphreys

Royal Dornoch Golf Club in Scotland has appointed King Collins Dormer Golf Course Design (KCD) to develop a masterplan, the firm’s first project in the UK. The club's investments in its golf and facilities include a new £13.9 million clubhouse that will open next year beside the first tee of the championship course, and it has also secured 50 acres of land next to its Struie course.

2 weeks ago | golfcoursearchitecture.net | Richard Humphreys

On a thin stretch of swamp land, just a few hundred metres from the Atlantic Ocean, Benin’s first 18-hole golf course is taking shape. The project was established following a directive from Benin’s president Patrice Talon to diversify the country’s economy – which is highly reliant on agriculture, particularly cotton – by developing industries such as tourism, banking and services.

2 weeks ago | golfcoursearchitecture.net | Richard Humphreys

Giulia Ferroni of Leeds Golf Design is at the halfway point of a 10-year renovation project at Cirencester Golf Club in Gloucestershire, England. Work began in 2020 once Ferroni had completed her masterplan. “The renovation was driven by a desire to modernise a golf course that had become a little tired, while also creating more interest, particularly around greens,” said general manager Leighton Walker.

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.