February 5, 2021 — The new owners of Les Bordes – the principals of European private equity firm RoundShield and a few outside partners – have spent two years invigorating new life into France’s famed Loire Valley region through the historic estate and […]
GOLF TODAY: Southern Hills Interview with Gil Hanse
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What PGA Frisco Means for the Golf Industry | 2021 PGA Merchandise Show
January 27, 2021 — As excitement builds in golf for the opening of PGA Frisco, Jim Richerson, PGA, Jimmy Terry, PGA, Gil Hanse and Beau Welling sat down at the virtual 2021 PGA Merchandise Show for a fun, timely conversation on […]
Insider’s Guide to the Restoration of Southern Hills
January 25, 2021 — The 2022 PGA Championship will be held in May of 2022 at Southern Hills Country Club, and there’s no better team to take you through the recently-restored Perry Maxwell design than our friends at The Fried Egg, Garrett […]
The golden age of golf course renovation and restoration
January 18, 2021 By: Jason Lusk — There’s a segment of art fans who regularly demand the Mona Lisa be cleaned and restored. It’s a touchy debate. If the painting were to be restored, it might better represent what Leonardo da […]
Showstoppers: 14 new (or renovated) layouts we can’t wait to check out in 2021
December 28, 2020 By: Josh Sens — Another calendar year is coming to an end. Out with the old, in with the new. As in, new (and newly renovated) courses. Here are 14 layouts we can’t wait to check out in […]
First Gil Hanse design in continental Europe set to open in 2021
December 4, 2020 By: Golf Course Industry staff — The New Course at Les Bordes, a Gil Hanse design in the heart of France’s Loire Valley, is set to open in May 2021. The par-72 course is situated south of Paris […]
The Lido of Thailand
November 24, 2020 By: Golf Course Industry Staff — The Lido Club has been gone some 80 years now, but never was it forgotten. This mythic 18 from the hand of American design pioneers Charles Blair MacDonald and Seth Raynor opened […]
Construction nears completion on both courses at PGA Frisco
November 19, 2020 By: Richard Humphreys — Work is almost complete on the Gil Hanse-designed East course and Beau Welling’s West course at PGA Frisco in Texas. Sixteen holes on the East course have been grassed and contractor Heritage Links is […]
College golf gets on ‘Road to La Costa’ with much bigger dreams in mind
November 17, 2020 By: Tod Leonard — In his mind’s eye, University of Texas men’s golf coach John Fields can see it all so clearly. Just as college baseball looks to Omaha, Neb., each year for the College World Series, and women’s […]
It’s here! GOLF’s 2020-21 ranking of the Top 100 Courses in the U.S.
November 2, 2020 By: GOLF’S COURSE RATINGS PANEL & RAN MORRISSETT, ARCHITECTURE EDITOR — When it comes to course design, it’s the ultimate badge of honor: a spot on GOLF’s biennial rank of the best courses in America. This year, we welcome […]
Hanse’s Aronimink restoration returns KPMG Women’s PGA host site to architecture’s Golden Age
October 5, 2020 By: Jeff Babineau — Aronimink Golf Club, host of this week’s KPMG Women’s PGA Championship in Newtown Square, Penn., west of Philadelphia, is rich with tradition, and no stranger to big events. The Donald Ross original underwent a […]
No Laying Up Podcast, Episode 358: Gil Hanse Recaps the U.S. Open
September 21, 2020 — Gil Hanse joins us to discuss how the 2020 U.S. Open played out at Winged Foot, his reaction to what Bryson was able to do, how he restored Winged Foot, green firmness, how to test the best […]
The New Gil Hanse-designed course at Les Bordes
September 17, 2020 — We’re big fans of Robert von Hagge’s mid-1980s course at Les Bordes, so we were really intrigued to hear last year that the club was constructing another 18-hole layout to complement the original course. When we then […]
The 5 most crucial shots at Winged Foot, according to Gil Hanse
September 17, 2020 By: Gil Hanse — What shots at Winged Foot have the ability to make or break a U.S. Open contender’s championship (and maybe his heart in the process)? We asked Gil Hanse to choose his top five. 1. THE THIRD PUTT ON THE 1ST […]