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Principles of Golf Architecture
By Richard Mandell
 

Twenty word tease: Let’s focus not on what the professional gleans from this event. Instead, let’s look toward the average golfer’s...

Twenty word tease: Phil Mickelson apparently decided to wait for Tiger’s return to make a statement – the best way to stoke a rivalry....

Twenty word tease: There are perks to being a golf architect. One of those landed on my desk just weeks before the Masters. I’ve eaten...

I hear they got this thing that is round – it’s called a wheel. I’ve also been privy to this little known fact – red means stop; green...

I’ve just returned from another one of my planes, trains, and automobiles trips (see past Golf Course Design Today Blogs) to San Diego...

Recently I noticed a golf channel advertisement touting their broadcast of the SBS Championship at Kapalua Plantation (what most of us...

I had the pleasure of interviewing LPGA Tour star Natalie Gulbis when she was recently in Pinehurst for the 2009 RSM McGladrey Team...

Athletes should not be role models, but unfortunately by default our society has made them out to be because of our obsession with fame....

I recently had the pleasure of playing The Ocean Course on Kiawah Island. You remember The Ocean Course, don’t you? An incredible setting...

Are you kidding me? Selena, do you even play golf? Could you not have passed that back page SI assignment on to Chris Ballard or Phil...

I won’t deny that I am an unabashed Tiger Woods fan. He is my generation’s Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, and Ben Hogan. Although my...

So, when does a golf course architect keep a tree as part of a golf hole design and when does he not? In new construction the options are...

It has been over a month since my return from Beijing and my battle with the Chinese CDC over me going over the fence early at the...

I’ve been told that my blog is a little too, “essayist”, maybe a little too measured with the preaching of what I think golf course...

My favorite golf tournament each year has always been the U. S. Open. For me growing up as a budding golf course architect, the U. S....

At some point in the late eighties/early nineties, the National Golf Foundation declared that to keep up with the demand for the game of...

Suggestion number four to help balance the game and the business of golf is to eliminate the bells and whistles! Four different...

In discussing an economic stimulus for the golf industry, I pointed out five specifics that would help balance the game and the business...

For years now I have always wondered what will happen to all the old houses people are leaving to go to the hundreds of thousands of...

In my previous blog, I declared that I did not think the golf industry deserved an economic bailout from our new government. Instead, I...