Golf Course Architecture - Issue 62: October 2020

13 CONTENTS 16 We open with news of the completion of the new PGA National Czech Republic course near Prague 46 Is the golf and housing estate model permanently broken, or can development projects still succeed? Adam Lawrence reports 58 Connor Lewis asks what we can learn from previous debates about technology 62 We profile Columbine Country Club, where Rees Jones has just completed redesign and renovation work 68 Vaughn Halyard reports on a visit to the varied courses of Forest Dunes in Michigan 72 Mark Ganning explains how Lincoln GC went about the process of installing a new irrigation system 74 Tiffany Koss describes the partnership between two Wisconsin golf businesses 76 Paul Chester explains how a well-designed short course can boost income 78 Pablo Muñoz Vega highlights the importance of an irrigation audit 80 Nathan Crace realises his bunkerless course dream ON THE COVER The eighteenth hole at Fox Chapel Golf Club in Pennsylvania, following a Fazio Design restoration. Read more on page 24. Photographed by: Russell Kirk