Gil Hanse is designing multiple holes for Season 2 of TGL. The post How a Famed Golf Course Architect Designs Holes for Tiger ...

GOLF’s Top 100 course panelists are among the most respected and well-traveled course evaluators in the game. They’re also keen to share their opinions. In this GOLF.com series, we’ll unlock their ...

The man behind Beverly Country Club, Wakonda and Lookout Mountain breaks down what he values most in design and three courses ...

The first amateur golf design competition was likely held in 1914 when Country Life Magazine asked readers to submit suggestions for a theoretical hole. Actual architect C.B. Macdonald, one of the ...

Welcome to A Beginner’s Guide to Golf Course Design, where we’ll dig into the history, design and meaning of golf course architecture terms you’ve probably heard before but might not fully understand.

He’s got this gravelly, identifiable voice. He’s slow and steady – and often, these days, Rod Whitman is winning the race. Whitman, now 69, is spearheading some impressive projects and is showing no ...

A cadre of design critics claims that golf course architecture slipped into a dark place from 1945 to 1975, emerging only when Pete Dye began to hit his stride. Others extend the time period another ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Scott Kramer covers golf and luxury technology. Fun fact: As a golf course ages, its greens and bunkers tend to shrink ...

Playing a round with a golf course architect can be an education. You never quite know when, without prompting, the placement of bunkers will be pondered or a discourse on mounding will occur: “You ...

That philosophy guided a renovation that focused on flow, strategy and visual continuity. The most significant change came in ...

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Legendary golf course architect Pete Dye, whose designs have played host to dozens of USGA championships, died on Jan. 9 in Gulf Stream, Fla., 12 days after turning 94. His death comes 11 months after ...