Golf Clubs �Golf Courses and Design

The design of golf courses is evolving, there's more to the turf you're swinging your golf clubs on than you may realize.

Golf course designers

If you haven't heard of the names Tom Fazio and Pete Dye than you won't know that these are just two of the men who have designed some of the best golf courses you've ever swung your golf clubs on.

And there are new generations of designers at work � Paul Albanese, Craig Schreiner, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Jeff Brauer and Steve Smyers. Designing golf courses today is no easy task � golf clubs are expected to have environmentally sound and technically flawless layouts.

Being an architect of golf courses is a venerable profession and tight knit club - it can take years to become a success. A young golf course architect is 40, thanks to the years of training and long apprenticeship and the extremely competitive market of golf clubs.

Perhaps the hottest young designer of golf courses is Scot, David McLay Kidd, who is linked to one of the most famous golf clubs, if not the most famous � St Andrews. He won over the critics with his golf courses at Bandon Dunes in the Oregon Coast .

The design of golf courses is not as easy as some may think � it's more than just swinging your golf clubs through 18 holes. The best golf courses use a site's assets, and for a site to succeed it's important to understand the subtleties of the land so the designer can create a sustainable course that fits with the environment and its surroundings.

The future of golf courses

The design of golf courses for golf clubs has evolved in recent years thanks to the advent of computer technology and equipment and engineering technology that can make anything seem possible.

Designing golf courses might not be the first career choice to cross your mind, but the sport is an expanding business and a multi-million dollar industry world-wide � golf clubs are springing up all over the planet.

• There are thought to be an estimated 31,500 golf courses in the world to swing your golf clubs on.

• It is estimated that 0.94% of the population are golfers.
• 0.014% of the world's land mass is devoted to golf courses.
• Scotland has the most courses per capita.
• Singapore has a golf course every 10 square miles.

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