Pete Dye, who designed more than 120 courses with risk-and-reward options that brought pleasure to some and frustration to most, was among six people inducted Monday night into the World Golf Hall of Fame. The 2008 class featured an amateur, an architect and an author, along with three major champions. Craig Wood was the only player elected through the PGA Tour ballot. Wood, the first player to win the Masters and U.S. Open in the
Tiger Woods pop-ins are always welcome, but especially when he has been so conspicuous by his absence. Last week during two public appearances in Southern California, the recently named "most powerful person in sports" appeared in fine fettle -- little leaner through the shoulders, hair a bit longer, hairline a bit higher, no limp. Competitive golf remains on hold. At a brief Saturday morning clinic for his learning center at Pelican Hill near Newport Beach,
LOS ANGELES — An ailing knee couldn't stop Tiger Woods from winning the 2008 U.S. Open, and it hasn't slowed his golf course design career, either. Woods announced Tuesday that Tiger Woods Design is building an 18-hole private course on the tip of a jagged peninsula near the Mexican resort town of Ensenada, about 65 miles south of San Diego. The 6,835-yard, par-70 course will be the centerpiece of a high-end community named Punta Brava
By Jerry Potter, USA TODAYThe architect: Rees Jones studied history at Yale, design at Harvard and golf course architecture under his father, the late Robert Trent Jones Sr. He has built a reputation as the "Open Doctor," the architect who takes old courses and rebuilds them for major championships, most famously the U.S. Open. His work will be on display at two majors this year, at the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines this week in
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From Economic TimesNEW DELHI: To strengthen its equity in India, the ''Greg Norman'' brand - better known for designing golf courses - is diversifying its activities, which includes developing branded real-estate properties and designing more golf courses, besides entering into wine segment. Great White Shark Enterprises, promoted by golfer Greg Norman, is also expanding the apparels business with plans to open more outlets. Keep reading....
From The Golf ChannelBy Brian HewittThe golf course design tandem of Bill Coore and former Masters champion Ben Crenshaw has completed their first work in Florida. Sugarloaf Mountain, near Orlando, is situated in the rolling hills above Lake Apopka and it’s another home run for Crenshaw and Coore who have been in high demand ever since conceiving and building Sand Hills Golf Club in Nebraska.Sugarloaf Mountain, which officially opens for play Friday, is a classic
From The Globe and MailBy Lorne RubensteinThe Canadian Open, first played in 1904, has never been held in Calgary. Given a promising new development, that could change. It should.The new development is, well, a private course that''s part of a development.Johnny Miller, the 1973 U.S. Open and 1976 British Open champion, is collaborating on the course with Calgary resident Stephen Ames. Miller, NBC''s lead golf analyst, never won the Canadian Open. Ames is still trying
From Cybergolf.comLongtime friends, golf course architect Steve Smyers and legendary teaching pro David Leadbetter, are teaming up to design a golf course in Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates, that will combine classic link-style golf with a high dunes and desert setting.Set next to the Persian Gulf 40 miles south of Dubai and anchored by mammoth sand dunes rising 30, 40 and sometimes 50 feet high, Talil Golf Course stands in "a spectacular setting," Smyers
From GolfweekBy Bradley KleinIn a year in which major renovations were just as prominent as new-course openings, the country’s most intriguing unveiling might have been a remodeled TPC.No, not the revamped TPC Sawgrass Players Stadium in Ponte Vedra, Fla., where the big architecture story wasn’t the sand-capped fairways and improved irrigation but a new, $32 million Italianate clubhouse. On the PGA Tour, at least, the story of the year was the retro-restyling of the TPC
From Brian Hewitt, Golf ChannelJohn Sanford is a quietly-rising star in a golf course design field already crowded with architects like Jim Engh, Gil Hanse, Randy Heckenkemper and, most notably, Tom Doak.Their names don’t resonate yet like Nicklaus, Fazio, Dye or the Jones brothers, Rees and Robert Trent Jr. But their work is increasingly fighting its way onto golf’s radar screen in increasingly high profile places.Keep reading....
From Golf365.comSpanning some 212 hectares of prime Cape Winelands real estate near Paarl, Pearl Valley Golf Estate is an exclusive 500-home residential development surrounding a magnificent 18-hole Jack Nicklaus signature golf course. With panoramic views of the spectacular mountain ranges and vineyards which in turn surround the entire estate, this outstanding course provides one of the games most memorable South African experiences.Keep reading.... var _hbEC=0,_hbE=new Array;function _hbEvent(a,b){b=_hbE[_hbEC++]=new Object();b._N=a;b._C=0;return b;} var hbx=_hbEvent("pv");hbx.vpc="HBX0200u";hbx.gn="peach.bskyb.com"; //BEGIN EDITABLE SECTION //CONFIGURATION
FromGeorge FullerSpecial to CBSSports.comFlorida boasts more than 1,000 golf courses -- more than any other state in the U.S. -- and the southeast coast between Miami and Fort Lauderdale is one of the Sunshine State''s most popular destinations. Two new Raymond Floyd designs at Fairmont Turnberry Isle Resort & Club now provide golf enthusiasts even more reason to visit.Combined with a $100 million facelift to the resort''s guestrooms and common areas (completed December 2006), and
From Jason Sobel, ESPNAnnika Sorenstam has a new job.Sure, she''s still a top-level golfer, but the 10-time major championship winner is also dabbling in course-design work, a role that eluded many of her elite LPGA predecessors. Sorenstam has already completed a course at the massive Mission Hills development in China and has two others in the works -- Patriot''s Point (a redesign in South Carolina) and Euphoria Gold (in South Africa).Consider those just the tip
From LPGA.comROSSLAND, B.C. (Nov. 30, 2007) – Sweden''s national ski coach once asked Annika Sorenstam''s family to move to the northern part of the country so the young Annika could train more. Now a hall-of-fame golfer and emerging businesswoman, she returns to the mountains, setting her latest golf course design at the base of some of the world''s best skiing – giving new meaning to the term slope rating.The site: Red Mountain Resort, one of
By: Jay Flemma, Cyber GolfIn 2005, Golf Digest''s Ron Whitten famously asked, "Is Tom Fazio good for golf?" But Whitten wasn''t the only one with that question. In his piece Whitten noted, "Golf''s leading designer is beloved by many, yet his courses have lifted expectations - and costs - to troubling levels." He went on to say that Fazio''s strategy-light, budget-bursting designs should not be the enduring standard for golf design into the future. "Hope
From Tom Hutton, Asian GOlf MonthlyQuang Nam, Vietnam (November 21): Despite the heavy rain that has ravaged Vietnam''s central coast over the last few weeks, a bold Colin Montgomerie took time off between the HSBC Champions in Shanghai and the World Cup in Shenzen to visit the site of his very first golf course in Southeast Asia - The Montgomerie Links Vietnam.Located in the breathtakingly picturesque region of Danang, Montgomerie''s first foray into the Asian
By Hunki Yun Two days after winning the 2007 PGA Championship at one of golf''s most venerable addresses, Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Tiger Woods steps out of a black Range Rover at the Cliffs Valley in Travelers Rest, South Carolina, a small town 20 miles north of Greenville, the hometown of Jay Haas and more infamously, "Shoeless Joe" Jackson. Following his expulsion from baseball along with seven Chicago White Sox teammates for
From The APTiger Woods has completed the designs for three holes on his first golf course in Dubai, and it doesn''t look like he''s too concerned about the area''s desert terrain.Woods and his design company are developing a 7,800-yard, par-72 course called Al Ruwaya in Dubailand, the region''s largest tourism and leisure project. It''s the marquee attraction in a 55-million square-foot development that also will include a hotel, golf academy, community center and luxury homes.Woods''
From Craig Dolch, Palm Beach PostLike many avid golfers, Pete and Alice Dye took a trip to Scotland to visit the home of their sport.Little did anyone know how much that six-week journey in 1963 would transform American golf for the next half-century. The Dyes played some golf on that trip, but mostly they soaked in the surroundings and came back to the U.S. determined to build that style of golf course.Keep reading....
From The ScotsmanA NEW championship golf course was mapped out in Scotland yesterday by a legend of the sport, Jack Nicklaus. The 18-time Major winner and his design team was in Stonehaven to inspect a site on a £40m leisure development. It includes an 18-hole championship course which Nicklaus says will provide a "memorable golfing experience" on the Ury Estate. Yesterday he planned out the routing for all but four of the 18 holes.
From The APTiger Woods and Phil Mickelson might be rivals in golf course design, too.Mickelson announced Wednesday that the first project of his new design company will be River Rock Golf Club in Cashiers, N.C., about 90 minutes away from where Woods'' company is building its first U.S. golf course.Phil Mickelson Design was launched in January. Its first golf course, built along the Blue Ridge Mountains, is scheduled to open in 2010. Among its features