Richard Humphreys

Cleeve Hill Golf Club in Cheltenham, England, has appointed Clayton, DeVries & Pont as its consulting architects.The course is located on the highest point in the Cotswolds with long views of Wales to the west, and the towns of Cheltenham to the south and Winchcombe to the north. Horse racing’s Cheltenham Gold Cup was run on Cleeve Hill between 1815 and 1855 before moving to its current location at Prestbury Park.Cleeve Hill was originally designed in 1891 by Old Tom Morris...

Mimosa Plus Golf Course in the Philippines has reopened following a 36-hole renovation project overseen by the Nelson & Haworth design firm.The Mimosa golf complex was built in the mid-1990s on Clark Field, a former US air base that was damaged in 1991 by the eruption of Mount Pinatubo. As a result, the US military abandoned the base, and its 18-hole course, and returned it to the Philippine authorities.In 1992/1993, the government redeveloped the Clark area, which is...

Dom Pedro Golf Vilamoura on the south coast of Portugal is renovating its Old course, with work expected to be complete by the end of August.The Algarve resort is refining greens and fairways; grassing and levelling tees, with some reorientated; addressing lips and slopes of bunkers, with new sand added; better defining playing areas; and introducing a new sprinkler system.“The renovations of the Old course align with the long-term vision of enhancing quality, sophistication...

Gold Hill Country Club, located an hour’s drive away from Seoul, South Korea, is continuing to grow in ahead of a grand opening that has been greatly anticipated.Construction of the golf course, designed by a local architect, began in 2019 but it never opened. The course has changed hands a few times, with Ramid Group acquiring it in 2022, and now, together with Troon, it is completing construction of the layout and is on track to open for preview play in September with a grand...

Michiel van der Vaart has created a new punchbowl green as part of the first phase of work at Keppelse Golf Club in the Netherlands.Spogárd & VanderVaart developed a masterplan in 2023, which focused on preserving the landscape of the Old nine and bringing the New nine more in line with those holes. The club also wanted to address the crossing on holes fourteen and fifteen, as well as shortening walks.The first phase, which was completed in July 2023 and opened in June 2024,...

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The July 2024 issue of Golf Course Architecture magazine is out now.Our latest issue features the Kyle Phillips-designed Stonehill course on the cover. The architect transformed desolate land north of Bangkok into one of Thailand’s best golf courses, as Richard Humphreys reports.For our main feature, we consider the potential impact of legislation that is currently before US Congress, which would extend the copyright protection that exists for buildings architecture to golf...

Royal Wimbledon Golf Club in Surrey, England, has now completed eight years of renovation work, with contractor MJ Abbott executing a masterplan created by Mackenzie & Ebert.The design firm conducted initial planning and developed its plan in the mid-2010s, and work began in 2016.Tom Dunn designed the original Royal Wimbledon course in 1882 but the club moved to its present location in 1907, with a Willie Park Jr layout that was redesigned in 1924 by Harry...

The Sand Valley resort was a bucket-list destination even before its latest addition. Now, it offers golfers more variety and appeal than almost any other resort in the US.Sand Valley debuted in 2017 with 18 holes of firm and fast golf laid out by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw over massive dunes in central Wisconsin. In 2018, David McLay Kidd added a second course, Mammoth Dunes, with fairways of epic width and player-friendly contouring. In the same year, the resort opened another Coore...

Karolinka Golf Park in Poland has reopened as an 18-hole course following a nine-hole extension designed by Grzegorz Marcinków,“The club’s initial nine-hole layout had become a bustling hub of activity, drawing in a large number of enthusiastic golfers,” said Waldemar Szadny, founder of All Golf Services, which handled construction. “This growing popularity, combined with the opportunity to acquire adjacent land, motivated the club to expand. The primary goals...