The first amateur golf design competition was likely held in 1914 when Country Life Magazine asked readers to submit suggestions for a theoretical hole. Actual architect C.B. Macdonald, one of the ...

A cadre of design critics claims that golf course architecture slipped into a dark place from 1945 to 1975, emerging only when Pete Dye began to hit his stride. Others extend the time period another ...

Merion, host of this week's U.S. Amateur Championship, features a routing as ingenious as it is unconventional. The post Is Merion the greatest course in the world? An architect makes the case ...

Architect David McLay Kidd is well-suited to take on our latest "Ask An Architect" question. The Scotsman burst into the profession when he built the first course at Bandon Dunes for developer Mike ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Scott Kramer covers golf and luxury technology. Fun fact: As a golf course ages, its greens and bunkers tend to shrink ...

Beau Welling, Founder and CEO of Greenville-based Beau Welling Design, is a renowned golf course architect, having worked on over 120 golf course design projects for major tournament venues. He grew ...

For the course architect Tom Doak, holes and fairways are only two pieces of a puzzle that includes topography, infrastructure and much more. By Michael Croley See more of our coverage in your search ...

Before all this, the seaside stretch of Lido Beach, a mere hour outside Manhattan, clung to a fading postcard of its former self. The one with new money elites frolicking along the shoreline. The one ...

A new wave of educators are updating how professional practice courses are delivered in architecture schools. What are they teaching? “From School to Practice” by Jiwon Kim, Suraj Radadia, and Reuben ...

From Stonehenge to Greek temples, architecture is the signature of humankind on landscape, the artificial element that has always been connected to the natural environment. Architecture and landscape ...