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.

How much does it cost to build a golf course? This is the million dollar question – or is it? Every golf course architect has been asked this often enough to establish some kind of an auto-reply – a patent answer that comes in handy in social gatherings or in the meeting room. An excerpt from Edwin Roald's essay published in Golf Architecture: A Worldwide Perspective, Volume V, compiled and edited by Paul Daley and published by Full Swing Publishing 2008Order online.... Full Story
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Lofty goals: Iceland gets first player in a PGA Tour event at The Wyndham

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

Where Jack’s 12-Hole Idea Falls Short

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

Iceland: A golf course in every village

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