Our latest 2024 issue features The Keep at McLemore, photographed by Evan Schiller, on the cover. With a spectacular setting on a mountaintop plateau in northwest Georgia, USA, the Bill Bergin-Rees Jones design is destined to make a big impact when it opens in 2025. Richard Humphreys reports from a visit during construction.

For our main feature, we ask why architects who trained with Pete Dye are so dominant in today’s golf design business. With input from Bill Coore, Bobby Weed, Chris Lutzke, Brian Curley, Tim Liddy and Marco Martin, we learn about the impact Dye had on those who designed courses with him.

Cedar Rapids in Iowa was devastated by a storm that tore through the course just a few years after a restoration by Ron Prichard. With thousands of trees felled and the landscape fundamentally altered, Prichard returned to oversee another transformation. Adam Lawrence reports.

This issue of Golf Course Architecture includes two feature interviews.

Bill Amick worked as a golf course architect for more than 60 years. Now retired, but still passionate about the profession, he continues to actively promote shorter courses and alternative forms of the game. Adam Lawrence spoke with him to learn more about his career.

Irish golf consultancy Turfgrass has launched a US arm with a string of high-profile appointments. Richard Humphreys spoke with Turfgrass founder John Clarkin and director of agronomy Julian Mooney, plus new hires Adam Moeller, John Lawrence and Brad Owen, to find out more.

New York’s Inwood Country Club and Renaissance Golf Design have spent the last 20 years recapturing the character of its Herbert Strong course. Greens chairman Daniel Friedman tells us more.

We have reports on a new practice facility at Golf at Goodwood in West Sussex, designed by James Edwards and built by MJ Abbott; and California’s North Ranch Country Club, which has been re-envisioned by Jackson-Kahn Design and rebuilt by Landscapes Unlimited.

Our regular round up of news in our Tee Box section includes details of the new McLeod course at Trump Aberdeen; Todd Quitno’s plan for the Country Club of Lincoln in Nebraska; an update on Red Sea Global’s Shura Links course, which has been designed by Brian Curley; and the changes coming to the Ailsa course at Trump Turnberry.

There is plenty more too. We hope you enjoy the read!

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