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 ...

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 ...

Brandon Johnson developed a love of golf and course design at an early age. He has mastered a field that has historically lacked diversity. By Shivani Vora Brandon Johnson picked up his first golf ...

In its globetrotting work in golf design, Nicklaus Design has built courses virtually everywhere. Now comes its first virtual course. Nicklaus Companies announced Wednesday a partnership with a New ...

U.S. Golf Art Foundation Fellow Hudson Shaoxia Zhang reveals how golf courses have proved a well of creative inspiration in his practice. Hudson Shaoxia Zhang, Fairway on Lava by the Sea - Mauna Kea, ...

The American golf landscape is about to get even more interesting. In 2026, five highly anticipated projects from some of ...

A private community in Bluffton, dubbed the “the best-kept secret of the South,” has unveiled a new golf course.

Gil Hanse has joined the roster of golf architects for Season 2 of the TGL indoor simulator season. Gil Hanse, one of the most admired figures in the modern era of golf course architecture, built his ...

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 ...

Changes in historical direction can often be traced to concentrated and connected events that appear to occur suddenly, what historians call inflection points. A popular exhibit at the National ...

The Rio 2016™ Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games has selected U.S.-based Hanse Golf Course Design to design the golf course in Rio de Janeiro for the Olympic Games in 2016, when ...