I’ve always been fascinated by golf course developers who know exactly what they want. Far too often those that build golf courses haven’t a clue beyond the concept that a course will help sell real estate. That’s often been the case in Canada — and led directly to the failure of several high-profile projects where the [...]
It is always a real pleasure to get a chance to meet and speak with the best in the business — regardless of whether we’re talking high-finance, technology, entrepreneurism or, in this case, golf. With that in mind, I was very pleased to meet Bill Coore, half of the Coore/Ben Crenshaw design team, while on [...]
Found this in the Scotsman — interesting, given Kohler’s home run at Whistling Straits.
New owner’s plans for Duke’s Course
MIKE AITKEN
HERB Kohler, the owner of Whistling Straits, the links-style course in Wisconsin where Vijay Singh won the US PGA Championship in August, yesterday promised to oversee far-reaching changes to the Dukes Course over the next three [...]
With a baby in the house, I realize there is little chance I’ll play anything further in Golf magazine’s top 100 in the world. But it has been a good year nonetheless…. There had been talk of getting to Pinehurst No. 2 this year, though it didn’t happen. Next year I am very keen [...]
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