Guys:
I was asked to start a blog on golf course architecture for the Washington Times. It's a great opportunity for me to ramble on about what is right and wrong about golf course design these days. This is going to be right up the GCAer's alley because it is another outlet to share with people the need to return to what we all love about design: In short - fast and firm conditions, a little brown is better for the game than a lot of green, strategy is king, not perfectly manicured conditions, etc. Hopefully the result of all of our grandstanding is to lower the cost of the game and return to its roots, which is a healthier attitude for the industry and one which we need for survival at this point.
The blog is called Golf Course Design Today. The link to the blog is
http://www.washingtontimes.com/communities/golf-design. Please take a look at it and join my blog community. It is free to sign up. Just go to
www.washingtontimes.com and click on "register" on the upper right corner. An e-mail will be sent to you with a registration form. Once that is filled out you can join any of the communities, including Golf Course Design Today. Just click on my blog and then click on "join this community" in yellow. You don't have to register to view the blog, though.
My first two blog entries are The Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis: Just the Nail In the Coffin of the Sub- Par Future of Golf and The U. S. Golf Model: Not a Paradigm for Latin Americans. Not all of them will be so linked to current events. The next one will probably be Rub of the Green and discuss the whole fast and firm ideal.
Thanks.