Cape Breton Island, in Nova Scotia, Canada, the location of Stanley Thompson's legendary Highlands Links is to be the site for a new course designed by Nick Faldo's company.

Trump International Golf Links, Scotland has filed its outline planning application to Aberdeenshire Council for proposed resort facilities including the hotel, clubhouse, golf practice facilities, holiday homes and golf lodges as well as additional resor

Architect Rolf-Stephan Hansen has completed shaping 17 holes of the Budersand project on the German island of Sylt.

Golf architecture aficionados often bemoan the negative impact that club and ball technology has had on classic golf courses.

Howard Swan, who has worked on many of Braid's courses, describes the life and legacy of the Scottish member of the Great Triumvirate.

Routing "It is both necessary and desirable that the holes should be laid out as suggested by the lie of the land, every natural obstacle being taken advantage of"

Golf course design, grass choice, and turf management are all intimately linked and unless they co-exist harmoniously the way a golf course plays and looks can be adversely affected for generations.

If golf was once a good walk, spoiled or otherwise, for many it is now a ride. Has the golf cart, and the infrastructure that goes with it, changed the game for good or ill?

With the Open Championship having returned to Royal Liverpool for the first time in 40 years in 2006, attention has naturally been drawn to some of the other links that have hosted the championship in the past.

A recent site visit by GCA revealed good progress on the construction of St Andrews' new Course Number 7.