Golf Course Architect Clive Clark – LINKS Golf Podcast Ep. 135
An all-new season of the LINKS Golf Podcast begins with a conversation featuring golf course architect Clive Clark. The hosts chat with Clark, a former player and broadcaster, about his memories from playing against Jack Nicklaus and Tom Weiskopf in the Ryder Cup, making the first televised hole-in-one in Masters history, and his acclaimed design […]
Dumbarnie and Coul Links: How Two Acclaimed Links Course Proposals Met Vastly Different Fates
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The two projects were announced with great fanfare—and had golfers salivating. In 2015, Coul Links Ltd., a consortium headed by Americans Mike Keiser and Todd Warnock, proposed the construction of a new links course in Embo, Scotland, just north of Dornoch. It was to be the first Scottish links from the esteemed design team of […]
Dumbarnie Links
On a trip to Scotland last fall I had the opportunity to play a sneak-preview round at Dumbarnie Links. Clive Clark, a member of the 1973 Great Britain and Ireland Ryder Cup team, has taken a relatively undistinguished landscape and created 18 fun, testing, and memorable holes. About nine miles south of St. Andrews on […]
