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Chambers Bay is not your typical golf course--condos don't line the fairways, carts are forbidden--but in other ways it exemplifies many of the trends in golf architecture: green maintenance practices, natural designs that follow the land and clever reuse of land. This stunning $20 million public course was an underproductive mine...
...oversaturated U.S. golf market, courses have to stand out to survive. The slow but steady decline in golfers over the past six years resulted in a 70% decrease in commissioned courses from 2000 to 2006. Last year the number of core golfers (those playing at least eight rounds a year) fell about 11% from 2000, with a 3% drop in rounds played during the same period, according to the National Golf Foundation. More golf courses closed in the U.S. than opened (146 shut down, while only 119 opened), the first such occurrence in six decades. "The game is less attractive...
That's why the designers are teeing up new strategies. They're making the most of every patch of greensward, revamping older courses and shifting their practices to booming markets overseas. With new course construction lagging in the U.S., the hottest trend in golf architecture is the restoration of classics built by greats like Donald Ross. "We've seen a shift from new construction to remodeling in the past five years, and I think it will continue to grow," says Greg Muirhead, senior designer at Rees Jones Inc., another leading firm...
...counterpoint to its stagnation in the U.S., golf is exploding overseas and attracting PGA stars, including Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, to the design game. Courses are popping up in places never before imagined as golfing destinations, such as Ghana, Vietnam, Croatia and Turkey. In the past five years 1,055 courses were built outside the U.S., in sunny spots like Majorca as well as in Sweden, where golf among young people is thriving. Over the next two years, 850 overseas courses are planned, according to the Golf Research Group. "Mediterranean countries, Eastern Europe and the Middle East will...
...surprisingly, wealthy, opulent Dubai has some high-profile projects. Woods has signed up to build a golf course, a golf academy, a hotel and homes in Dubailand, the region's largest tourism and leisure facility, while Greg Norman is teaming with Sergio Garcia and influential designer Pete Dye to create Dubai's first links-style course. Jack Nicklaus, a pioneer among the player-designers, has announced a $1.35 billion golf-resort venture in the Cape Verde Islands, off the West African coast. Gary Player Design built the first public course in China on an island off Hong Kong and just...