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Gil Hanse to lead golf course restoration at Mid Ocean Club in Bermuda
1+ hour, 36+ min ago (272+ words) By Richard Humphreys | 09 July 2026 Mid Ocean Club in Bermuda has hired Gil Hanse to restore the 1922 Charles Blair Macdonald golf course. The appointment comes after club researcher Rick Skelly uncovered a silent 1926 film in the Smithsonian Institution archives that features,…...
Big Foot in Wisconsin reopens following Zinkand renovation
1+ hour, 46+ min ago (294+ words) By Kasturi Datta | 09 July 2026 Big Foot Country Club in Fontana, Wisconsin, is set to reopen its 1924 Tom Bendelow golf course following a renovation by Zinkand Golf Design. The multi-phase project began in 2024 with golf architect David Zinkand focusing on improving…...
Royal Birkdale: A hole-by-hole guide to the design changes
6+ hour, 52+ min ago (834+ words) By Richard Humphreys | 09 July 2026 This time next week all eyes of the golfing world will be on Royal Birkdale in Southport, England, as it hosts the Open Championship for the eleventh time. Mackenzie & Ebert has advised on a host of…...
Royal Birkdale: An interview with Tom Mackenzie
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (280+ words) By Richard Humphreys | 08 July 2026 Royal Birkdale, near Southport, England, is hosting the Open Championship on 16-19 July 2026. It will be the eleventh time the club has staged the event, with Peter Thomson winning the first, in 1954, and Jordan Spieth winning the…...
Jonathan Davison underway with restoring Belgium's only links course
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (249+ words) By Alex Smith | 08 July 2026 Jonathan Davison of Create Golf is underway with a project to restore the links character of the 18-hole course at Royal Ostend Golf Club, near the seaside town of De Haan, Belgium. The course, originally designed…...
Spanish golf legends Olaz'bal and Jim'nez lead revival. ..
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (1030+ words) By Richard Humphreys | 06 July 2026 The first of two 18-hole golf courses in Sicily, Italy, that closed in 2020 is to reopen in spring 2027 as part of a relaunched facility called Costa Ragusa Golf. Located in Sicily's historic south-east region, near the…...
Florida's Dutchman's Pipe to undertake bunker, landscape and irrigation project
1+ week, 1+ hour ago (170+ words) By Laura Hyde | 02 July 2026 Dutchman's Pipe Club in Palm Beach, Florida, is to undertake a two-hole bunker renovation on its Nicklaus Design course as well as make landscape, irrigation and drainage upgrades. Formerly known as The President Country Club and…...
Trump says work on East Potomac will begin in September 2026
1+ week, 2+ day ago (214+ words) By Richard Humphreys | 30 June 2026 US President Donald Trump has announced, following a tour of the East Potomac Golf Links with interior secretary "Doug Burgum and golf course architect Tom Fazio, that a renovation of the Washington DC golf facility will…...
Tiger Woods" TGR Design to create 18-hole course at Tributer Resort
1+ week, 3+ day ago (176+ words) By Alex Smith | 29 June 2026 Tiger Woods" TGR Design has been selected to create a new 18-hole championship course at Tributer Resort in Virginia. Routed through farmland, mature hardwood forests, and pine groves, the course will measure 7, 310 yards from the championship…...
Construction of new Coore & Crenshaw course underway at Kingsley Club
2+ week, 5+ hour ago (236+ words) By Richard Humphreys | 25 June 2026 Construction is underway on a new golf course, designed by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw, at Kingsley Club near Traverse City, Michigan. The 18-hole layout, which will join the club's Mike De Vries-designed course, is being…...