Shifts In Golf Course Design

Back in the early 1900s, when the majority of our now celebrated golf courses were being designed, the development process was often a simple matter of enlisting the help of a Harry Colt or a James Braid to advise on the design before setting about the land with the help of local farmers and labourers.  It’s a credit to these gentlemen that their course layouts are still regarded as some of the finest in the world. At the time, the concept of removing trees or using railway sleepers in bunkers was as cutting…Read more …

Golf on TV: Snitching & Spitting

Watching golf last weekend, two incidents left a rather unsavoury taste in my mouth. As you may have seen or read, the first taste of bile came courtesy of the disqualification of Scotland’s Peter Whiteford from the Avantha Masters.  Just one stroke off the lead, Whiteford had to endure being told on the 4th tee of the final round that he was being disqualified for an incident that happened on the final hole the day before, and in so being, he became the latest victim of TV viewers contacting the Tour to indicate…Read more …