golf architecture websites

[astavrides]

does anyone on this site (besides ran ;-) and geoff) have their own  golf architecture website where they post their opinions and such?

[Jeff_Mingay]

Alex,

mingaygolf.com will be up and running within the next few months. It's under construction.

The website will be dedicated to golf course architecture (not just a promotion of Rod Whitman and I as golf course architects). It's planned to feature a regularly updated commentary section, an archive of selected writings I've contributed to books and magazines, a detailed section on the design and construction of Blackhawk Golf Club, etc.

Again, look for it in a month or so...

[Jfaspen]

try www.golfarch.com

Not too many opinions, but good pictures.

[michael j fay]

www.donaldrosssociety.org

[Steve_ Shaffer]

Try:

www.tillinghast.net

[Tom_Doak]

Alex,

Our web site should finally be updated within the month.

One addition will be a semi-regular journal of my travels, as suggested by several people on this site.

[JNagle]

www.forsedesign.net  We still have some modifications to make.

[ForkaB]

http://richmusings.blogspot.com/

I've just started "blogging" at the above URL.  Can't guarantee that I'll stay on topic, however......

[THuckaby2]

Rich:

Great stuff - but that's about architecture like I am about 120 pounds.  

I have definitely saved it as a favorite now though, and will check often.  No pressure, but I am expecting daily greatness, if not hourly.

TH

[SPDB]

Rich - good job on the blogspot, i look forward to many rich musings (double entrende intended).

www.golfobserver.com can have some value when it iffers pdf's of old American Golfer stories.

[Matt_Ward]

For those who are interested in course reviews that speak about different travel destinations along with detailed critiques on the architecture provided you can click to:

bunkershot.com

I am involved with providing the site with new course info / travel & architecture involved. My first posting is now up and details the golf opportunities in one of my favorite destination places in the USA -- New Mexico -- The Land of Enchantment.

Be interested to get any comments from those who read that article and any other future ones.

Future reviews will chronicle my many travels throughout the USA and internationally.

[THuckaby2]

For those who are interested in architecture and all things beyond such in golf, focusing on Northern California, go to Matt's web site listed and find the local NorCal version.  That local editor really is a yahoo.

 

[Jeff_Mingay]

Matt,

Your "rating criteria" is similar to Doak's "scale", which makes it easy to interpret.

[Matt_Ward]

Jeff:

I like the idea of a 1-10 scale but the one I'm using at bunkershot.com might be in the minds of others a bit less discerning than what Tom Doak states in "Confidential Guide."

I guess some people will wonder if an "8" for a Ward course is the same as an "8" on the Doak scale. It some cases they will likely be the same -- in others they may be slightly lower or even higher.

I mean there are plenty of people who have opined on Black Mesa and don't see the same level of greatness that I see. I've played the course a few times and frankly I believe it's right up there with the likes of Pacific Dunes. Unfortunately, many people have not played Black Mesa and others are simply adding points to Pac Dunes because of the closeness of the Pacific and the fan base that Tom has created through his work. I don't doubt for a NY minutes the greatness of Pac Dunes but a course like Black Mesa does hit a big time home run IMHO.

[Mike_Young]

www.mydgolf.com

[Brian_Gracely]

Mike,

I'm looking forward to meeting you at Athens CC and Cuscowilla, but I've got to ask why you choose to display a picture of your crew building a cart path?, http://www.mydgolf.com/courses/detaillarge.asp?gID=%7B9A67D632%2D5035%2D44F4%2DAE08%2D441B6EE62E21%7D

I've worked at jobs pouring concrete, and it's looks like they are doing nice work....but a cart-path??  

[Mike_Young]

Brian,
I have never thought much about it.  I just let my person put up some pictures.   i think it was a "before shot" for the guy in the blue shirt before he started the Subway diet.

[Paul_Daley]

Greg Ramsay has successfully bashed my ear about constructing a website. It goes to air in ten days.

fullswinggolf.com.au

The site won't be the 'finished article' for a while, but hopefully in the interim, it will assist to open up new markets -plus strengthen existing ones - allowing me to stay in this crazy business for a bit longer.

[Jeff_Mingay]

I agree with Greg, Paul. A Full Swing Golf Publishing website is long over due!

I can't wait to see it... hoping that the golfing world will have improved access to your wonderful books through the website, too.

[Michael Plunkett]

http://www.golfplan.com/


They did Shore Gate in South Jersey, which I didn't like at first but now I understand someone "fixed" it. Does any know what happen? I read that the course is now  "user friendly."  I may not have liked the course but I hate the dumbing down of an artists vision in any medium.

[Scott_Burroughs]

For those who are interested in course reviews that speak about different travel destinations along with detailed critiques on the architecture provided you can click to:

bunkershot.com

I am involved with providing the site with new course info / travel & architecture involved. My first posting is now up and details the golf opportunities in one of my favorite destination places in the USA -- New Mexico -- The Land of Enchantment.

Be interested to get any comments from those who read that article and any other future ones.

Future reviews will chronicle my many travels throughout the USA and internationally.

For those of you curious and have never met him:



Who IS that guy?  

For those who are interested in architecture and all things beyond such in golf, focusing on Northern California, go to Matt's web site listed and find the local NorCal version.  That local editor really is a yahoo.

 

Tom,

I don't see any local NorCal version on the bunkershot.com web site.  Can you post the link to it?

[THuckaby2]

Scott:

Interesting.  I guess us local boys don't yet get the play on the national site that the big guys like Matt get.  

Try this:

http://www.bunkershot.com/localnews.cfm?local=NoCal

As you'll hopefully see, I need CONTENT...

TH

[Scott_Burroughs]

You should tell them that there's no way to find it otherwise.

Nice plug on being Santa Teresa Club Champion.  And we thought you were modest ole', aw-shucks Huck.    

[THuckaby2]

You should tell them that there's no way to find it otherwise.

Nice plug on being Santa Teresa Club Champion.  And we thought you were modest ole', aw-shucks, Huck.    

 
Hey, I need to get some mileage out of this, the one good thing I've ever done competitively.  Whaddya think, does it raise the credibility level I give away by admitting I'm a course rater for GD?  That is, that I'm clueless but at least I can play the game?
 

TH

[Marty Bonnar]

Please feel free to scrutinise/criticise (don't be TOO harsh!) my little pebble in the pond...

www.foregroundgolf.com

FBD.