Golf Course Architecture Magazine July 2025 Vorige editie

The July 2025 issue of Golf Course Architecture features the New course at Trump International Golf Links in Aberdeen, Scotland, on the cover. Toby Ingleton toured the course and spoke with the project team about the dramatic site.

The par-three eighth at the recent US Open at Oakmont got a lot of press for being virtually 300 yards in length, with many players critical of the hole, and long par threes in general. For our ‘Not for a long shot?’ article, Adam Lawrence spoke with several golf course architects, including Steve Smyers, Brian Curley and Christine Fraser, to get their thoughts on long one-shotters.

GCA visited the new Torre course at Terras da Comporta, designed by Sergio Garcia’s firm, and Baltusrol Golf Club in New Jersey, where the reopening of the Upper course marks Gil Hanse’s completion of the restoration of AW Tillinghast’s famous ‘dual courses’.

Our feature interview is Rees Jones. He speaks about following in the footsteps of his father, his work at Bethpage Black, projects in Asia and much more.

Ron Whitten writes about Swope Memorial, where he is consulting on a project led by CE Golf Design that is aiming to recapture AW Tillinghast’s original vision for the Kansas City course.

Also, we have reports on Eschuri Vung Bau Golf Resort in Vietnam; the US$3 billion Hann Reserve development in New Clark City, Philippines; a new golf course for the Moon Palace Punta Cana resort in the Dominican Republic; the renovation of La Moye Golf Club on the island of Jersey; the new Capital Hills course in Islamabad, Pakistan; and Wichita CC in Kansas.

Elsewhere, our news section includes the proposals by King Collins Dormer for Royal Dornoch in Scotland, the Gil Hanse renovation of Royal Sydney in Australia, the new Scarecrow course that DMK Golf Design has created for Gamble Sands and insight from Canadian architect Jason Miller on the new Timehri Sands golf course that is being built in Guyana.