A well-known name is returning to the European Tour schedule from next year.

Design firm Harradine Golf has expanded into yet another new territory, in this case Khartoum in Sudan, where the company has recently started the construction of the country's first grass golf course.

Golf architect John Sanford has started work on Hacienda Bay, a new golf course located on the Mediterranean coast of northern Egypt.

Arizona-based architect Gary Stephenson has started a programme of renovation works at the Fairmont St Andrews resort (formerly known as St Andrews Bay).

Architect Rick Jacobson is to include an island green as part of his renovation of the East Course at the Hilton Indian Lakes Resort outside Chicago.

German architect Rolf-Stephan Hansen has finished the build of the Budersand golf course on the island of Sylt, close to the country's border with Denmark.

The late Fred Hawtree, a golf architect since 1938, edited the second volume of this anthology in 1999, towards the end of his life.

Not a golf architecture book, it's true, but Bob Labbance, who has coauthored this volume with Brian Siplo, has written extensively on the subject in the past, as, for example, in his history of golf course management, Keepers of the Green.

Plans are in place for a new golf and country club in County Cork, Ireland.

The Indoor Golf Arena, the world's largest indoor golf centre, is expected to be open in the Netherlands by 2010, with a number of local councils showing interest.