Award-winning architect Paul Jansen argues that creativity and imagination will always win over conditioning and a plethora of features in terms of golf course design
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Written by Paul Jansen
Photography by Courtesy of Laguna Phuket Golf Club
Road trips in the States don’t come more quintessential than Los Angeles to Las Vegas via Death Valley. All the classic imagery is there in abundance; film locations, roller-blading Californian...
Qingdao
Northern Delights
Home to Tsingtao, China's biggest and most successful brewery, this former German concession in the northern province of Shandong hosted the sailing events during the...
Long before the Dominican Republic became the world’s major producer of fine, hand-crafted coronas and robustos, the original Indian inhabitants – known as Tainos – wrapped and...
It doesn't open until July but the spectacular Donald Trump-owned Trump International - Scotland is already proving a hit with golfers, with more than 1,000 players having already bought tee times...
It was a sunny mid-September morning in British Columbia. At precisely 8:30am the Whistler Mountaineer chugged gently out of North Vancouver railyard, on its daily run to the alpine resort of...
By anyone's reckoning, Northern Ireland is tiny. It has a population of just over one and a half million, which is just three per cent of the total of the United Kingdom. Put another way, there are...
Between Java and Lombok the Indonesian island of Bali is enchanted and beautiful. It doesn’t teem with golf courses, but there are four layouts here that anyone would want to play.
Tourism...
China's importance to the global brotherhood of golf course architects cannot be understated. The country, which effectively outlawed the game for decades following the Second World War, has since...
WHERE TO PLAY
BLACK MOUNTAIN ****1/2
This five-year-old course, a 25-minute drive from the centre of town, has received a lot of hype, thanks in part to its twice-hosting of the Black Mountain...
Scotland’s golfing assets are considerable and unique. Most of its courses are historically significant and a great many are amongst the best on the planet. The vast majority of them –...