Golf Course Architecture - Issue 66, October 2021

11 CONTENTS 14 This issue’s Tee Box opens with news of Coore and Crenshaw’s new Te Arai South course, and includes reports of recent projects from around the globe 44 Ally McIntosh offers a plea to links courses to resist the trend towards homogenisation of design 48 With the supply of sand under increasing pressure, Adam Lawrence looks at how the golf industry can respond to this crisis 54 Tom Doak’s new St Patrick’s Links course at Rosapenna in Ireland is now open. Adam Lawrence came away very impressed 62 Richard Humphreys reports on European Golf Design’s work at Marco Simone near Rome, which will host the 2023 Ryder Cup 68 Tom Mackin visits Baltusrol, where Gil Hanse has overseen an AW Tillinghast-inspired restoration of the Lower course 72 Bradley S Klein reports on the recent work by Matt Dusenberry that has made Cornerstone’s course more playable 76 We hole out the issue by finding out about the environment-first approach being taken for a new golf facility in Glasgow ON THE COVER The first hole of the new St Patrick’s Links course at Rosapenna, Ireland, designed by Tom Doak. Read more on page 54 Photographed by: Clyde Johnson