Derek Duncan is an Architecture Editor at Golf Digest. He specializes in architecture and planning, with a focus on golf-related topics across various regions including Florida, Australia, and the Caribbean Islands. Derek's work has been featured in Golf Digest and the Cigalah Group.
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By: Derek Duncan
Golf course architects strive to create variety in each of their designs, but even the best have favorite concepts and patterns they return to. If it works, why stop?
By: Derek Duncan
Former USGA director Mike Davis discusses building the new Apogee South course in Florida
By: Derek Duncan
Pete Dye didn’t invent the terrifying par-3 hole, but he revolutionized it. Architects from the beginning have positioned greens in precarious places that require extreme tee-shot precision—across lakes and rivers, on benches above deep bunkers and ravines, in dunes surrounded by sand and gorse—but Dye took it to another level.
By: Derek Duncan
The Covey might not have gotten the social-media buzz that others in this category did, but that's about to change
By: Derek Duncan
This fresh and explorative new Pinehurst #10 is a step forward for the iconic American resort
By: Derek Duncan
Medinah #3 has been transformed from a narrow, wooded and restrictive course to a more broad, dynamic layout—capable of changing daily.
By: Derek Duncan
Through the 1970s and 80s, few courses exemplified the ideal of the “championship course” more than Medinah #3. In an era when toughness correlated with greatness, Medinah looked the part, flexing its toughness in the form of tight, tree-lined fairways, thick rough and greens that played like marble staircases. By 2019, however, when the #3 course hosted the BMW Championship, time and maintenance technology had passed it by. Justin Thomas’ 25-under score officially killed any remaining intimidation factor, and a course once positioned inside the top 10 suddenly seemed out of date and in danger of slipping off the America’s 100 Greatest Courses ranking entirely (it was No. 93 in 2023-2024).
Architecturally, the work completed at Interlachen, a Donald Ross design outside Minneapolis, is a restoration-renovation hybrid. Designer Andrew Green used Ross’ hole-by-hole blueprints from 1919 to guide the comprehensive redesign that touched every aspect of the property, restoring bunkers and putting-surface dimensions as closely as possible to what was first drawn. The green perimeter and Read more...
By: Derek Duncan
Green fee prices keep climbing—but these 6 affordable public golf projects should provide hope for the industry
Twenty-five years ago, it was impossible to imagine the places people would now be rushing to for world class resort golf: the cold southwest coast of Oregon; the austere shore of the mighty St. Lawrence River in Nova Scotia; agrarian central Wisconsin; the quiet Ozarks of southern Missouri.
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