6 of the Wildest Design Quirks on a Golf Course
A recent trip to Arizona offered me an opportunity to tackle one of the unique bunkers in golf: a 13-foot-deep pit of peril at Scottsdale National Golf Club called the “Mine Shaft.” The original bunker depth was eight feet, but the team at Jackson Kahn Design dug deeper when too many golfers successfully escaped for […]
Donut Greens: 5 Holes with Bunkers on the Putting Surface
When George Thomas designed Riviera Country Club’s championship layout during the late 1920s, he introduced a unique element that gave the course instant notoriety: a pot bunker set smack dab in the middle of the par-three 6th hole’s putting surface. Since then, the design feature has been replicated in other parts of the country (and […]
