Like an abstract painting splattered on a canvas, the skill of golf course design is easy to dismiss. A tee box, a green, a fairway and some bunkers in between. The whole time you think, Hell, I could ...

Teenager Jacob Paturel’s vision took more than two years to become realized. “I’m really proud and I’m really happy it finally got done,” Paturel said in a phone interview. “It ended up being way ...

Inside every avid golfer is a golf-course architect. Or at least a little voice that says, “I could so build a cool par-3 on that empty parcel.” But daydreaming is not the same as doing. A new program ...

In the common telling, golf-course design has moved from being punishing to player-friendly. Forget forced carries and narrow, tree-pinched targets - architects now favor width and ground-game options ...

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 ...

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 ...