Bending the rules to cut construction costs

No irrigation sprinklers are in place on the fescue greens at Geysir Golf Club. Yet they have been praised for their quality.
23-year old Olafur Loftsson, an amateur golfer from Iceland, has his countrymen on the edge of their seats after securing a spot in The Wyndham Championship on The PGA Tour, starting Thursday in Greensboro, after winning the Cardinal Amateur with a career-topping performance on Sunday.
Olafur's showing at Full Story
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R&A Championship Committee to visit Royal Portrush
"The R&A's championship committee will be visiting Royal Portrush Golf Club in Northern Ireland later this week to
Recently, Geoff Shackelford spotted an interview with Jack Nicklaus in the Tennessean, in which he wipes the dust off his recommendations, made several years ago, that the golf industry starts offering twelve-hole rounds. Jack offers this as a remedy to halt the decreasing participation in golf, and to spark Full Story
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Addressing the Time and Expense Issue: A Simple Way to Play Faster for Less
In large markets where golf once prospered, the number of active players and rounds played has dropped considerably. Th -
Iceland Makes Country-Wide GEO OnCourse™ Pledge: A Great Boost for Sustainable Golf, says Peter Dawson
The Golf Union of Iceland recently demonstrated environmental leadership on an unprecedented scale as sixty-two golf cl
The earliest written reference to golf in Iceland is a simple mention of an Englishman, by the name of Forder, who, in 1912 is said to have knocked the most peculiar little white balls back and forth on the banks of the Laxa River in the north-east quarter of the country, in which Full Story
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Augusta National: Little Room Left for Drama in Golf’s Theater of Dreams
I can’t prove it. It is a gut feeling, but due to the significant course changes that were made to Augusta Natio
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The Sand Belt: Golf without Excess Baggage
The author was joined on a journey-of-a-lifetime by almost seventy of his colleagues, golf course architects from all o -
Royal Sydney: A Healthy Mix of Tradition and Tolerance
When heading up the final hole at Royal Sydney Golf Club, it was hard not to notice a group of children swinging away o