Located beside the Long Island Sound, the Country Club of Fairfield was first designed by Seth Raynor in 1914, who transformed a flat, swampy onion field into a quality course by bringing fill onto the site via steam train to help create shape and build the necessary features. This is no Whistlin
Founded as an exclusive club for the super-rich residents of Locust Valley, The Creek Club opened in 1923 and was initially designed by Charles Blair Macdonald, one of its founding members. Built by his understudy Seth Raynor, much of the course was set down on lower ground beside the Long Island
Located on the southern shore of China’s tropical Hainan Island, the Shenzhou Peninsula development features 36 holes of golf designed by American legend Tom Weiskopf. Both East and West courses are routed, in part, along the South China Sea, with its feature holes being those that touch
Founded by Bandon Dunes visionary Mike Keiser, on a 90-acre woodland property close to the shores of Lake Michigan, the Dunes Club is a truly remarkable nine-hole layout that is carved through attractive pine-covered sand dunes and bears a striking resemblance to New Jersey’s Pine Valley. L
Located amidst the glorious sandhills of Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, The Dunes was created in 1997 by local architect Tony Cashmore, who completely reshaped a primitive and partially built layout into one of Australia’s most cherished public golf courses.
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Unlike the majority of modern golf developers who seek immediate headlines and hefty financial returns with their compromised estate master plans, when Irish writer Pat Ruddy decided to build his own golf links it was done with little fanfare and with the long-term foresight of a true golf vision
High in the rocky mountains of Alberta, the Banff Springs golf course is a Stanley Thompson design that lies in a valley beneath both the majestic Fairmont ‘Castle in the Clouds’ hotel and the magnificent Banff mountain range. Having successfully built the Jasper Park golf course for
Surrounded by the bustling suburbs of Nassau County, the Garden City Golf Club is a low-key private men’s club that was founded in 1899 on the site of a nine-hole course built the previous year by Devereux Emmet. Emmet’s course was extended to eighteen holes and later revised and leng
‘It’s interesting that most people think that we were lucky enough to inherit all of these wetlands before building our golf course. In a way that’s a nice compliment, but the reality is very different.’ - Bob Harrison
When the Glades opened toward the
‘I told Mr Jones I liked the property, but actually I would have been tickled to death to build anything with the kind of money he was talking about.’ Pete DyeFrustrated by increased traffic at his local country club, businessman Frederick Jones started acquiring
