There’s a moment that happens to every golfer who arrives at Kukui’ula’s 12th hole. You’re standing on a tee box built near an ancient lava-rock structure: a proto-lighthouse where Hawaiians once lit ...

Getting into the family business wasn’t something Cynthia Dye McGarey ever planned on doing. Many of her family members had become involved in golf course architecture. Most famously, her uncle is ...

Landmark is best known for development of courses at PGA West and La Quinta Resort ...

I grew up playing and loving golf but was always interested in course architecture and the strategy behind the game – I just never really saw it as a potential career. I went to college at Brown ...

Bill Coore is a big name in golf-course architecture. But he wasn’t always destined for a life in design. In college at Wake Forest, he studied the classics. Not Golden Age layouts. Actual classics.

David McLay Kidd designed the forthcoming fourth 18-hole golf course at Streamsong Resort. And the architect of Bandon Dunes, Mammoth Dunes and Gamble Sands says this might be his most fun course ...

For most of us, the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro are still two years away, but for golf course landscape architect Gil Hanse of Hanse Golf Course Design, it’s already an Olympic year. That’s ...

In its globetrotting work in golf design, Nicklaus Design has built courses virtually everywhere. Now comes its first virtual course. Nicklaus Companies announced Wednesday a partnership with a New ...

U.S. Golf Art Foundation Fellow Hudson Shaoxia Zhang reveals how golf courses have proved a well of creative inspiration in his practice. Hudson Shaoxia Zhang, Fairway on Lava by the Sea - Mauna Kea, ...

A cadre of design critics claims that golf course architecture slipped into a dark place from 1945 to 1975, emerging only when Pete Dye began to hit his stride. Others extend the time period another ...