Fairways and Greens
By Vic Williams
THANKS TO AN INFLUX OF CASH, REDESIGN ACUMEN AND COMMUNITY PRIDE, INCLINE’S CHAMPIONSHIP COURSE HAS THAT CLASSIC GLOW AGAIN
If Kyle Phillips isn’t careful, he’ll replace Rees Jones as “The Open Doctor.” He might even give modern design heavyweights like Jones and his brother, Robert Trent Jr., Pete Dye and the two Toms – Fazio and Doak – a run for their money. Read More…
Golf International Inc.
By David Brice
Most new golf courses are like wine – they often require time to mature and develop. But also similar to wine, there are some new courses that can be experienced young and are filled with character and personality from the moment they are first opened. Read More…
Golf Business News
The International Federation of PGA Tours has announced that the American Express World Golf Championship will be played at The Grove from 28th September to 1st October 2006.
It will be the first time that the United Kingdom has hosted one of the World Golf Championships since the series of top class global events was inaugurated in 1999. The WGC – American Express Championship has visited Spain twice, the United States once and Ireland on two occasions, most recently this past week at Mount Juliet Conrad in Thomastown, Co Kilkenny. Read More…
Links
By Malcolm Campbell
Medieval kings and horse-racing dukes once claimed this scenic plat on the Firth of Clyde. Today a deep-pocketed American developer has some calling it the seaside sensation of Scottish golf. Read More…
Robb Report
The Grove
A modern classic at England’s finest new resort.
Kyle Phillips’ work at Kingsbarns, neighbor to hallowed St. Andrews, has been universally hailed as an almost perfect modern example of the Scottish links course. Now the American architect has created his version of an English parkland course at the Grove, a quirky yet fabulous new resort in Hertford-shire, England, just 25 miles outside of London. Read More…
Golf World
This summer another extraordinary links course will be officially unveiled. Dundonald, formerly known as Southern Gailes, just a couple of miles up the coast from Royal Troon, where this year’s Open Championship is due to take place, is the latest in a line of links courses which have recently been uncovered. Read More…
From The Peugeot Guide
The Grove, Britain’s most-talked about new golf resort, has been ranked officially as one of Europe’s finest venues only three months after opening and been placed in the elite category of world-class golfing destinations that includes Gleneagles and Turnberry. The Peugeot Golf Guide 2004-2005, the most influential manual on where to play in Europe and widely regarded as “the traveling golfer’s bible”, has judged the Hertfordshire complex to be one of the most complete resorts among more than 1,000 it surveys each year. Read More…
Executive Golfer
By Edward F. Pazdur
“Kyle Phillips’ first course designed in Scotland, Kingsbarns Golf Links near St. Andrews earned him an unprecedented endorsement from The Royal and Ancient Golf Club in St. Andrews.”
Newly acquired, Dundonald makes an exceptionally worthy companion to Lyle Anderson’s Loch Lomond, a renowned international private club in Scotland with members from 42 countries, and 48 of America’s states. With the addition of Dundonald, Loch Lomond Golf Club, located just 30 minutes from Scotland’s Glasgow International airport, has surely become the world’s “mecca” of golf. Read More…
