The Evolution of Golf Course Architecture
Quite literally, the landscape of golf course architecture has evolved since LINKS began publishing 20 years ago. Since 1988, more than 3,500 courses have been built in the United States. Some, like Sand Hills, are among the greatest ever built. Others, like Shadow Creek, were unlike anything that golf had seen before. While overall quality of courses built […]
Essex Golf & Country Club, Canada
During the 1920s Donald Ross embarked on a crisscross of North America, laying out new golf courses and remodeling old ones. Of the nearly 400 courses Ross designed and/or remodeled, no more than 11 were in Canada. Two of those are in Windsor, Ontario, a blue-collar town on the south shore of the Detroit […]
