Golf Course Architecture Magazine

The October 2024 issue of Golf Course Architecture features The Keep at McLemore, photographed by Evan Schiller, on the cover. With a spectacular setting on a mountaintop plateau in northwest Georgia, USA, the Bill Bergin-Rees Jones design is destined to make a big impact when it opens in 2025. Richard Humphreys reports from a visit during construction.

For our main feature, we ask why architects who trained with Pete Dye are so dominant in today’s golf design business. With input from Bill Coore, Bobby Weed, Chris Lutzke, Brian Curley, Tim Liddy and Marco Martin, we learn about the impact Dye had on those who designed courses with him.

Adam Lawrence reports from Cedar Rapids in Iowa, which was devastated by a storm that tore through the course just a few years after a restoration by Ron Prichard. With thousands of trees felled and the landscape fundamentally altered, Prichard returned to oversee another transformation.

We also speak with Bill Amick, who worked as a golf course architect for more than 60 years. Now retired, but still passionate about the profession, he continues to actively promote shorter courses and alternative forms of the game.

Irish golf consultancy Turfgrass has launched a US arm with a string of high-profile appointments. Founder John Clarkin and director of agronomy Julian Mooney, plus new hires Adam Moeller, John Lawrence and Brad Owen, tell us more.

There are also reports on projects at New York’s Inwood Country Club, Golf at Goodwood in West Sussex, England, and California’s North Ranch Country Club. And our regular round up of news in our Tee Box section includes details of the new McLeod course at Trump Aberdeen; Todd Quitno’s plan for the Country Club of Lincoln in Nebraska; an update on Red Sea Global’s Shura Links course, which has been designed by Brian Curley; and the changes coming to the Ailsa course at Trump Turnberry.