Bahia Beach named International Course Finalist in Golf Inc's Development of the Year Award

"Vision" is the quality that judges weigh most heavily in their evaluation of the many deserving entries in our annual Development of the the Year contest.

Best New Courses of 2009

The Golf Club at Rainmakers, a Robert Trent Jones, Jr. design, ranks in the top 10 among GolfDigest's list of Best New Private courses.

Sequoyah National awarded #2 Best New Golf Courses You Can Play 2009

Robert Trent Jones II carved this short, hilly layout in the steep foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains as an amenity for Harrah's Cherokee Hotel & Casino, 45 minutes west of Asheville. It's spectacular throughout, but stray off the tee and you'll have a better chance of beating the casino than you will of making par.

Challenge looms in new design

Esteemed golf course architect Robert Trent Jones Jr has predicted his redesign of the Hyatt Regency Coolum course will present players with a more difficult challenge at this year's Australian PGA Championship.

Beyond the Tartan Pants

Chances are you don’t know the name Bruce Charlton—nor are you familiar with his enormously-loud plaid pants.

Royal Ancient

Ask any experienced golf tourist to China about playing the royal and ancient game in the Mid- dle Kingdom and the chances are they will wax lyrical about either Shenzhen or Guangzhou, with their famed courses and easy access.

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Rainmakers honored by GolfWeek Magazine

Rainmakers,a private golf and residential community just north of Ruidoso, NewMexico, is proud to announce that it has been ranked #3 on Golfweek’sprestigious 2009 list of “The Top 50 New Courses” in the U.S.

NoCal's Celebrated CordeValle Selected to Host the 2011 PGA Cup

CordeValle, one of Northern California's celebrated resort destinations and featuring what renowned golf architect Robert Trent Jones Jr. calls perhaps the finest creation of his career, has been selected to host the 25th PGA Cup, the premier international showcase for PGA Professionals, Sept. 16-18, 2011.

Singh to make 1st appearance Down Under since 1998

Rainmakers isn't the first course to be built in the Ruidoso area, but it has taken the game in southern New Mexico to a whole new level.

Here Comes The Rain

Rainmakers isn't the first course to be built in the Ruidoso area, but it has taken the game in southern New Mexico to a whole new level.

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Holiday Season Brings Early Giftsto Robert Trent Jones II Golf Course Architects

The golf course architecture firm of Robert Trent Jones II® (RTJ II)—long known for developing golf courses in an environmentally responsible manner— has released its Green Proclamation: ten tenets that have guided the company’s design philosophy and that the firm commits itself to pursuing into the future.

Rainmakers Rated Among Top 10 Best New Private Courses
by GOLF Magazine

Situated near the high-altitude horse racing mecca of Ruidoso, New Mexico's first Audubon Signature course is an environmentally sensitive Robert Trent Jones II design that darts through sagebrush and juniper.

GOLFmagasinet, Denmark, Names Lübker Golf Resort #1 Course in Denmark

Editor of GOLFmagasinet, Jorgen Hojberg, says: "Lübker Golf Resort has given Denmark a course of top international class. The course was all ready at the opening in an immaculate condition and it has set a new standard for Danish Golf. They haven't compromised on anything, and Lübker is a true gem which in many years to come will attract a whole new golf audience to Denmark".

Golf Inc. names Lübker Resort a Finalist for 'Development of the Year'

RTJ II's Lübker Golf Resort, in Djurs, Denmark, has been named by the prestigious golf industry magazine Golf Inc. as a finalist for its Development of the Year award. The resort has already been named best new international course by GOLF Magazine.

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The Links at Bodega Harbour: California's Hidden Coastal Gem

Too often we golf writers use embellishing words like "gems" to describe something that is little more than average. That is not the case with The Links at Bodega Harbour—perhaps the most under-rated and overlooked of the great California coastal golf courses.

Read the full article starting on Page 19 and continuing on Pages 35 & 36.

Cordevalle, The Norcal Luxury Resort Experience

Being respectfully called by your last name, your car valet-parked nearby, luggage taken to the room while you check in, shuttled back and forth to your villa suite, fireplace on in the room, not a bad start eh?

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Lübker Golf Resort Rated #1 Best New International Course
by GOLF Magazine

Scandinavia's answer to Valderrama is this flawlessly conditioned 27-hole Robert Trent Jones II design in the Jutland region of Denmark, three hours from Copenhagen.

Chambers Bay Rated #1 Best New Course by Golf Digest

The brightest starburst is America's Best New Public Course of 2008, Chambers Bay in suburban Tacoma, Wash., a Robert Trent Jones Jr.-Bruce Charlton design that has already been named to host the 2015 U.S. Open and the 2010 U.S. Amateur.

Lifetime Achievement Awards Bestowed On Dr Chu & Trent Jones II

Dr David Chu and Robert Trent Jones II were honoured at the Asia Pacific Golf Development Summit.

Dr Chu, the founder and chairman of Mission Hills Group, and legendary golf course architect Jones were the first recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Awards presented by EZ-Go and Jacobsen.