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CONTENTS
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Our Tee Box section for this October 2015
issue leads with news of the imminent
opening of the Nicklaus Design golf course at
the Al Zorah development in the emirate of
Ajman. We also hear about new golf courses
in Argentina, Canada, France, Germany,
India, New Caledonia, Rwanda, South Korea
and the United States, and renovations
throughout the world, including architect
Richard Mandell’s restoration of the Donald
Ross design at Bacon Park in Savannah, US.
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With the vast majority of golfers performing
at a skill level that means hitting any part
of a fairway is a rare success, is strategic
design irrelevant? Adam Lawrence canvasses
the opinion of a range of golf architects
and asks whether a new philosophy of golf
design is needed.
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Golf architect Rees Jones, known to many
as the ‘Open Doctor’, tells
GCA
that the
future of golf will require a new kind of
championship course.
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If ball-finding technology were legal in golf,
wouldn’t we all enjoy the game a little more?
Golf architects David Williams and Ken
Moodie think so.
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Are we witnessing the emergence of the next
great golf destination? James Hansen reports on a
recent trip to the remote King Island in Australia.
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Change is afoot at the second course at the
legendary Royal County Down in Northern
Ireland. We visit the Annesley Links to find out
more about the work done by Martin Ebert.
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Old Elm Club in Chicago is a unique
collaboration between Harry Colt and
Donald Ross. Adam Lawrence visits to see the
results of architect Drew Rogers’ project to
restore Colt’s original design intent.
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We visit another Colt design – the La Mer
course at Le Touquet in France – to find out
how Frank Pont and Patrice Boisonnas are
progressing with restoration work.
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To hole out this issue, Benjamin Warren
considers golf ’s urban future, and how to
encourage participation among the world’s
big city dwellers.