Derek Duncan is the Architecture Editor at Golf Digest. He focuses on themes related to construction and real estate, with a particular emphasis on house and interior design. Derek's work has been featured in Golf Digest, MSN, Golf Digest ME, Pharmaceutical Online, and Yahoo Sports.
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Donald Ross designed close to 400 golf courses, but he only said this about one of them: “I intended to make this course my masterpiece, but not until today did I realize I built better than I knew.”
By: Derek Duncan
A look at the "masterpiece" that will host the year's next major and all the work that went into it.
By: Derek Duncan
Some of golf's best classic golf architects have origins in Philadelphia, but can we really look at their contributions as a whole?
By: Derek Duncan
Aronimink’s architectural history has always been a curious case.
When golfers travel, they tend to seek out target-rich environments, the dense clusters of places like the London Heathlands, the Melbourne Sandbelt or the Hamptons on Long Island where they can play as many great courses as possible in the shortest amount of time. Golfers visiting Scotland, for instance, typically attempt to gobble up chunks of A-list venues concentrated in regions up and down the east coast, where they can get to four of the top 10 layouts in our new World’s 100 Greatest Courses ranking and 14 of the top 100. But that sprint ranges from Muirfield (ranked third) and North Berwick (11th) in East Lothian all the way north to the Highlands and Royal Dornoch
By: David Cannon, Stephen Hennessey, Derek Duncan, Paul Detre
Traveling golfers can be excused for assuming the coast of Scotland is one long stretch of startling linksland. After all, it’s in these seaside locations where so many legendary golf courses are located, and where they spend most of their time.
By: David Cannon, Derek Duncan, Stephen Hennessey
North Berwick is ranked 11th in our new list of the World's 100 Greatest Courses outside the U.S. and eighth on our list of the Best in the U.K. and Ireland.
Golf in England will be in the spotlight with The Open returning the next few summers—but some of the non-rota courses have the most character and charm
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By: Derek Duncan
What comes next will be determined by how eagerly architects embrace AI as an asset or whether they view it as a threat.
By: Kevin Murray, Stephen Hennessey, Derek Duncan, Paul Detre
Lofoten Links, which had jumped to #24 in our last ranking of the World's 100 Greatest Courses, lacked sufficient ballots to make our top 100 this year—but ranks third in our Best Courses in Continental Europe.
