Thad Layton Starts New Design Business as Arnold Palmer Design Folds

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Until early September 2023, when it was announced that the Arnold Palmer Design Company would be shutting its doors, Thad Layton, a senior architect for the firm, would go into meetings knowing Arnold Palmer had his back. No, the great man might not have actually been present for the last seven years (can it really […]

Q&A: Golf Course Architect David McLay Kidd

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It’s almost 25 years since David McLay Kidd burst onto the scene with the design of Bandon Dunes’s original and eponymous course. Since then, the Scot, who now calls Bend, Ore., home, has established himself as one of the leading architects of his generation with a number of top-ranked designs both public and private. At […]

Golf’s Top Shot-Tracking Systems

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Ben Hogan espoused “digging it out of the dirt” when it came to game improvement and consistency. It was an approach embraced by countless others, Tiger Woods included, but for many golfers today that’s given way to a new process: digging it out of the data. Golf is a sport that lends itself to data […]

PGA Tour Q&A: One Course for the Rest of Your Life

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If you could only play one course for the rest of your life, where would you choose to play? It’s a question that golfing friends often ask each other, so we decided to ask a bunch of PGA Tour players to find out where they would choose to play golf if they could only tee […]

Golf Games & VR: Bucket List Courses at Your Fingertips

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Bucket list chasers out there might be fortunate enough to have played renowned courses like Augusta National, Pebble Beach, TPC Sawgrass, Bandon Dunes, Harbour Town, and Teeth of the Dog. But for most golfers, places like these remain entirely aspirational, whether it’s access, location, or cost that’s an impediment. For many, it’s all three. It […]