As land becomes more scarce, are we nearing a point where recycling golf sites might make the most sense?
I'm not talking about restoration or even mild redesign. What I have envisioned is taking a set of acres already devoted to golf and starting from scratch. A new architect, new hole corridors, the potential for adding or subtracting water hazards. A whole new course on a plot of land that is probably in an area of a town or city that would be impossible to find, purchase, and build a golf course in this age if an older course weren't already there.
Surely, there are some good to great sites out there where, for whatever reason, the course fails to live up to the potential and is ripe for recycling. Instead of taking new golf courses to very remote sites, should we start looking closer to urban cores for those opportunities?