Golf courses have mushroomed all over the world in keeping with a rampant rise in the popularity of golf. The eminent editors of Travel & Leisure Golf Magazine have turned up with a list of 2008 top ten new golf courses including seven in the United States and one course each in British Columbia, Dominican Republic and Scotland. The Castle Course at St. Andrews in Scotland has topped the list. I have thrown some light on these golf courses for your information.
The Castle Course, St. Andrews, Scotland – David McLay Kidd a Scotsman was awarded the most coveted design commission to construct the Castle Course at St. Andrews in Scotland. The Castle Course is the seventh course at St. Andrews. It is the transformed form of a deserted 220-acre potato farm on the fringes of the town.
The Chase, Coyate Springs, Nevada – The Chase at Golf Club Coyote Springs is located fifty miles north of Las Vegas. Surrounded by waterfalls, lakes, and artful desert buffer zones, this golf course features a picture perfect landscape. The architectural design by Jack Nicklaus converted a field with intricate contours and tattered-edge bunkers into the Chase.
Ritz-Carlton Golf Club, Aldie, Virginia – Located at Creighton Farms in Aldie, Ritz-Carlton Golf Club is encircled by creeks, ponds and wetlands. Jack Nicklaus, a renowned architect was entrusted with the responsibility of transforming an area of hundred acres into this golf course.
The Club, Kelowna, British Columbia – British Columbia is going to turn up with as many as ten courses over a span of three years. The landscape around the Club at Tower Ranch is full of bulging hills that overlook Lake Okanagan and the city of Kelowana. Thomas McBroom is the architect of this golf course.
Tetherow Golf Club, Bend, Oregon – David McLay Kidd an architect deserves to be praised lavishly for the miraculous conversion of a craggy high-dessert terrain into Tetherow Golf Club. Much of the land where the present golf course stands was destroyed by wildfire fifteen years ago.
Sugarloaf Mountain Golf and Town Club, Minneola, Florida – Located in the hilly area full of citrus groves, scrub oak and country roads, the layout of Sugarloaf Mountain Golf course features some elevations here and there and tumbling fairways. It is an architectural achievement of Ben Crenshaw and Bill Coore in collaboration.
The Legacy Course, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic – This new golf course in Dominican Republic required a midstream re-routing. The island terrain reacted erratically to the construction of the Legacy Course at Punta Cana. Nick Fald deserves to be credited with the architectural design of the course.
Four-Mile Ranch Golf Club, Canon City, Colorado – The sharply angled doglegs and the high-stakes green complexes of the golf course in Canon City are the highlights of Jim Engh’s architectural design. The course is free from all hazards.
Palouse Ridge Golf, Pullman, Washington – This golf course comes with green-perched fairways that roll like turbulent seas. Wind turns the golf course into a blustery land of Pullman, an evergreen state. It is an architectural achievement of John F. Harbottle III.
Rock Creek Cattle Company, Deer Lodge, Montana – This private prairie link golf course has made its way through small natural bowls and evergreen studded foothills. The course designed by Tom Doak comes with a fishing club at Deer Lodge.
