Award-winning architect Paul Jansen takes a look at the way technology is helping and hindering golf course construction and maintenance
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Written by Paul Jansen
Photography by Miller Brown
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Such has been rate of golf course construction on the Chinese mainland in recent times that no-one is entirely sure how many courses there actually are. From an approximate number of 240 five years...
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