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 ...

Bill Coore is a big name in golf-course architecture. But he wasn’t always destined for a life in design. In college at Wake Forest, he studied the classics. Not Golden Age layouts. Actual classics.

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 golf’s most celebrated architects will debut across the country.

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 National Links Trust, an organization rooted in promoting municipal golf across the United States, took to Instagram recently to highlight important women in golf-course architecture. Marion ...

From his home base in Florida, Greg Norman has been working on a big-money venture, something intended to shake up the golf landscape. Nope, not LIV Golf — a different startup project. This is a golf ...

After months of deliberation, Yale’s athletic department has officially announced plans to hire world-class golf architect Gil Hanse for the restoration of its historic golf course. On Thursday, Yale ...