Written by Courses editor Kevin Brown on Friday 6 July 2007
Four avid golfers recently conducted a St Andrews golfing marathon – the four-ball played all ten of the Home of Golf’s courses within 24 hours. The dedicated golfers – Graeme Dawson, Golf and Leisure Sales Manager at Fairmont St Andrews, Alasdair Love and Scott Finlayson from Scotland for Golf and Gary Davidson (Ladies Golf Union (LGU)) – played 171 holes, 61,000 yards and a par of...
Written by Courses editor Kevin Brown on Tuesday 3 July 2007
Everybody loves playing par 3s. They’re short but usually sweet…but very often downright tough and demanding. First looks can deceive and there’s no doubt par 3s can lull golfers into a deadly false sense of security. They can be serious card wreckers and in the October issue of Today’s Golfer we’ll be revealing Britain’s most fearsome short uns. We expect Carnoustie’s intimidating...
Written by Ashburnham Golf Club, Course News on Friday 29 June 2007
Ashburnham Golf Club has been given a double reason to celebrate after being chosen to host two of the most prestigious amateur tournaments in Wales. The Carmarthenshire course has beaten off competition from a strong list of contenders to be selected by the Golf Union of Wales (GUW) as a future venue for the Welsh Open Strokeplay Championship – the union’s...
Written by Courses editor Kevin Brown on Friday 15 June 2007
Retief Goosen may be struggling to find his best form on the course at the moment but things are going well for the South African off course: he’s rapidly making a name for himself in the world of golf course design. The ‘Goose’ has already designed four courses in South Africa and one in Korea but his best yet could be his...
Written by Kevin Brown, Courses Editor on Tuesday 5 June 2007
Six-time Major cham Nick Faldo was in Turkey last week to officially open one of his “best courses” – the 27-hole Cornelia Golf Club near Belek, in Southern Turkey. It’s Faldo’s first design project in the eastern Mediterranean and consists of three separate nine-hole loops, Cornelia is built on a vast ridge of sand dunes, and threads its way through...
Written by Kevin Brown, Courses Editor on Wednesday 30 May 2007
Thirty years after opening, England’s most famous golf course – The Brabazon at The Belfry – is undergoing one of the most significant revamps of its life. Changes are currently being made to the spectacular Ryder Cup course in a determined bid to make it even better…and tougher, specially with the superstars competing in the Quinn Direct British Masters in September...
Written by Courses editor Kevin Brown on Wednesday 9 May 2007
They say every picture tells a story. But that’s not strictly accurate you know: not as far as this superb collection of images of this summer’s Open venue Carnoustie are concerned anyway. The photos – shot by top Getty Images golf ‘snapper’ Dave Cannon – were captured over a few balmy, late summer days in 2006 when Carnoustie was at its...
Written by Courses Editor Kevin Brown on Thursday 19 April 2007
Is this the most remote golf course in the world? As far as we’re concerned it is! It’s the only course on the Ascension Islands, about 4000 miles away from the UK in the South Atlantic. Member Stan Buchan sent us these amazing pics, and said: “As you can see, the course is all sand and rock with the greens, or...
Written by Kevin Brown on Wednesday 28 March 2007
A Second World War bomb has been found at one of Scotland’s most famous courses. The discovery was made by Bruce McLaren, the head greenkeeper at Blairgowrie Golf Club, as clearance work was being undertaken on the Wee Course. Ron McLaren, the head of golf operations at Blairgowrie, said: “Bruce was working just off the ninth green on the Wee Course clearing...
Written by Courses editor Kevin Brown on Friday 23 March 2007
Well, it’s pretty special and spectacular that’s for sure though you’ll have to go to the United Arab Emirates to experience it: to the Four Seasons Golf Club Dubai in fact. The striking clubhouse (pictured right), designed by Wimberly, Allison, Tong & Goo, incorporates sweeping copper coloured roof lines and dramatic blue grass structures, while boasting an elegant ambience with spectacular...
Written by Courses editor Kevin Brown on Tuesday 20 March 2007
Golf in Turkey has so much going for it. Firstly, there’s the year-round sunshine, and secondly there’s a wealth of outstanding courses in and around the Belek region, a truly hot golfing destination in more ways than one: Nick Faldo has just finished a course there while Colin Montgomerie is currently working on another. A golfing break in this part of...
Written by Courses editor Kevin Brown on Thursday 8 March 2007
COMPETITION Fancy winning the ultimate tuition break at a top golfing venue with your regular golfing partner? Let’s face it, who wouldn’t and you can do just that by entering this free, easy-to-enter competition. Two places are up for grabs on one of the 2007 Scoring Schools run by world-renowned golf trick-shot artist and PGA professional Jeremy Dale at his base at...
Written by Toby Keel on Thursday 1 March 2007
A new indoor Golf Academy, the only such facility in Scotland, has been opened at Heriot-Watt University’s Edinburgh Campus. The new indoor golf practice facility, an addition to the already extensive portfolio of facilities at the University, incorporates driving, chipping, bunker and putting areas, and provides users with the unique opportunity of practising their golfing skills in an indoor environment...
Written by Toby Keel on Tuesday 23 January 2007
The Prestigious Moor Park Golf Club has just completed four years of bunker work on both of their Harry Colt designed golf courses. This includes a number of holes being updated, making both the High and West courses even more challenging. The work was undertaken by Grassform Ltd In conjunction with our own team managed by Stuart Bertram following consultation...