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.

The restoration of the 18 hole golf course at Askernish in the Western Isles of Scotland, originally designed by Old Tom Morris in 1892 (GCA issue 4), is to go ahead this winter.

One of the most ambitious golf courses in Germany is currently under construction at Wittenbeck on the Baltic coast.

Anthony Edgeworth is one of golf's bestrespected photographers.

Veteran golf architects and historians Geoffrey Cornish and Michael Hurdzan, between them the designers of hundreds of courses and the authors of dozens of books, have produced this bibliography with the backing of all the world's four major group

The tenth anniversary edition of the Peugeotbacked guide to Europe's 'top 1,000' golf courses follows the well-proven format established by the previous books – a Michelin guide for golf courses, if you like.

Thomson Perrett & Lobb is designing a heathland style course on Turkey's Mediterranean coast.

At the recent Golf Business Forum, KPMG's Andrea Sartori invited visitors to look at the website www.golfbenchmark.com for information on the firm's golf benchmarking survey.

Golf in Scandinavia is on the up.