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THE ARCHITECTS GOLF CLUB 700 Strykers Road Phillipsburg, NJ 08865 908.213.3080 www.thearchitectsclub.com Architects: Stephen Kay with Ron Whitten Par 35-36=71 Design: Six Stars (all ratings out of seven) Natural Setting: Five Stars Conditioning: Five and ½ stars Value: Five Stars Overall Six stars Difficulty: 7/12 Excitement: 9/12 Stephen Kay isn’t just a golf...
TULSA, OK – When they shaved the bank between the green and the edge of the water hazard to bring the hazard into play, little did the powers that be realize how much havoc the hole would wreak on the field. Corey Pavin incurred a rare three-stroke penalty because of the change. Pavin his his tee shot into the greenside bunker. Before he played his shot, his...
Here’s a list of future PGA Championship venues: 2008 – Oakland Hills Country Club, (South Course), Bloomfield, MI 2009 – Hazeltine National Country Club, Chaska, MN 2010 – Whistling Straits, (Straits Course), Kohler, WI 2011 – Atlanta Athletic Club, (Lake Course), Atlanta, GA 2012 – Kiawah Island (Ocean Course), Kiawah Island...
TULSA, OK – Chris Clouser, author of “The Midwest Associate” may have compiled the most comprehensive synopsis of Perry Maxwell’s body of work as a golf course architect. “Actually, Maxwell is misunderstood by many people” he notes with a hint of regret in his voice. “For example, he wasn’t Mackenzie’s associate...
In honor of Open Championship week, lets examine a little bit of ye olde sod here in Ye Big Apple. Mark Cannizzaro of the New York Post wrote this excellent column on one of my favorites and the best course in New York City – Bayonne Golf Club by Eric Bergstrol. I reviewed Bayonne here and discussed it in depth here when it finished second in...
Part one is here . Part two is here. CHIP SHOTS AND TAP-INS  Luckily for golfers, Spann’s visit to Tobacco Road inspired him to throw away the rule book. The course is as un-Jones/Fazio as can be. All the hackneyed tricks slick marketers and conventional designers use are absent and all the strategic elements and sharp natural features and severe greens...
Part one of my Black Mesa piece is here, along with my ratings for the course. Back already from reading that? Good. Here’s part two. Part three to come tomorrow. ON THE COURSE             The course is inspired by Strantz’s work at Tobacco Road, but first hole is eerily reminiscent of number one at a different Strantz masterpiece...
BLACK MESA GOLF CLUB 115 State Road 399 Espanola, NM 505.747.8946 www.blackmesagolfclub.com  Architect: Baxter Spann Par – 72 Excitement Level – 10/12 Difficulty – 9/12 Cost – weekend $64, add $18 for cart, M-Th, $55, twilight $35 shoulder seasons offer bargains Yearly Memberships – None Design – Seven stars Natural Setting...
Remember Shinnecock in ’04? Funny…the R&A didn’t during today’s Open Championship qualifier and they had a mess on their hands.
They had to move a screwy pin on the fourth hole at the Old Course at Sunningdale (a false front green) and order eight players to replay the hole…some of whom scored worse the second time around.
Readers of Mark Twain’s classic novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court will note many remarkable similarities between Twain’s resourceful, noble, and hilarious protagonist Hank Morgan who forces the 19th century on the 6th and the equally ahead-of-his-time, progressive thinking, paradigm-shifting Tom Doak. When you meet Doak, you are...
I told you it was the best new private last year. When all is said and done, it will be one of the best in history. Oh..and did you catch “Grateful Dunes?” I vote for a big par-4 17th called “Morning Dew” and a reachable, but stunning par-5 18th, “Sugar Magnolia.” Other holes I NEED to see…Jack Straw, Eyes of the World, Dark...
According to this AP article, “the man teed off with three friends on the second hole of the Pala Mesa Resort Golf Course in northern San Diego County at around 10 a.m. and then got into his cart. The vehicle veered off the concrete pathway, traveled down a 25-foot embankment and went over the edge of a cliff, California Highway Patrol spokesman Tom Kerns said...
Golf architect Mike Hurdzan, who’s work includes Best New Public Course winner Bully Pulpit in North Dakota, was awarded the prestigious Donald Ross Award. According to the Cybergolf article: Hurdzan was honored for “being a respected, passionate voice of reason and knowledge for golf. Hurdzan received the award on April 30 during the American Society...