...and is found under Architecture Timeline and Courses by Country.
Suppose you just spent $30 zillion on opening up a new course.
Now please go look at some of the photos in the Newcastle, Australia profile, particularly of the greens at the 7th, 8th, and 11th. Suppose they were your new club's green complexes.
As owner, would you feel cheated? The greens look so simple, almost featureless as they don't have any wild interior movement or neat looking bunkers.
HOWEVER, though visually not dramatic, these greens at Newcastle are among the finest in the game from a golfing quality perspective (I say that after 200 plus rounds there and having had the privilege to call Newcastle my home club for over five years).
What does that say about golf architecture these days? Is it all about how cool something looks
rather than how it in fact plays?
I hope my Aussie wife and I can retire within an hour's drive of there: this simple, uncluttered form of golf architecture is very near ideal. Not a single architect with whom I'm aware builds anything that looks this clean, this simple yet plays so well.
Cheers,