Dec 5, 2024 · Els Club Vilamoura in the Algarve, Portugal, will open in summer 2025 with a golf course by Ernie Els Design. The club, owned by investment management company Arrow Global, will be the Algarve’s first private members’ golf club. “This one is really special,” said Els. “We have been keeping this one under wraps as we know the …

Jan 2, 2025 · Golf participation continues to rise, as reported by the R&A and National Golf Federation, and with that comes new golf courses and renovation projects. To kick off the year, we are highlighting ten projects that we think are going to catch the eye of the golfing public in 2025. Five new courses that will officially open in 2025 The MacLeod course at Trump Aberdeen, Scotland A design team of ...

Oct 23, 2023 · OCM Golf’s redesign work on Course Three at Medinah Country Club, near Chicago, is complete and the new layout is now growing in ahead of a planned reopening in 2024. “The project is best described as part restoration, renovation and redesign, with the major routing changes occurring in the last six holes,” said Mike Cocking of OCM Golf. Referencing old aerial imagery, hand drawn plans ...

Jul 24, 2023 · Ken Bakst, developer of Friar’s Head on Long Island, New York, has submitted a masterplan for a new development in Martin County, Florida, which includes a 36-hole golf facility designed by Whitman, Axland & Cutten (WAC Golf). The plan includes two eighteen-hole golf courses and a 175-acre practice facility comprising a 10-hole full-length practice layout, a 12-hole short course, a massive ...

Nov 16, 2022 · The former Scotch Hall Preserve course in Merry Hill, North Carolina, will reopen at the end of November as part of the new Occano community following its acquisition by developer Dilweg and a $3 million renovation by Brandon Johnson of Arnold Palmer Design Company, the firm behind the course’s original design. The course, which overlooks the Albemarle Sound, originally opened in 2008 and ...

Aug 30, 2024 · Quarry Oaks Golf Club in Ashland, Nebraska, will reopen its course for limited play this autumn following a year-long grow-in after a renovation by original designer John LaFoy and contractor Landscapes Unlimited. The course, which first opened in 1996, was built on the site of an old rock quarry on the Platte River between Omaha and Lincoln. In 2022, owner Jim Abel began planning to renovate ...

Dec 23, 2024 · Zinkand Golf Design and contractor Frontier Golf are nearing completion of a renovation of the golf course at Knollwood Country Club, on the outskirts of Detroit, USA. Donald Ross proteges Arthur Hamm and George McLean originally designed the course in 1925 and it has remained largely unchanged, aside from renovation projects in 1969 and 2001, by Jerry Matthews and Bob Lohmann respectively. In ...

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Taking time to recapture character. Inwood’s Daniel Friedman talks about how the New York club has spent the last 20 years trying to make up for the previous 80 years of change that had slowly eroded the character of its Herbert Strong-designed course

Dec 23, 2024 · As we pause our regular coverage for the holiday season, we like to share a selection of our most popular articles from this year’s four issues for those who might have some time to read during the festive break. Adam Lawrence reported on a trip to Jameson Golf Links near Dublin, Ireland, for our January 2024 issue, following a renovation by Jeff Lynch. “The course has a much clearer ...