Thunderhawk Named Top 10 Course

The Lake County Forest Preserves' ThunderHawk Golf Club was named one of the top 10 best municipal courses in the United States in the June issue of Golfweek.

My Round at Chambers Bay

Chambers Bay provides a unique golf experience along Puget Sound that is challenging, enthralling and above all, great fun.

Tougher course? Mission accomplished

Mission Viejo Country Club returns to roots with a recent makeover.

Robb Report's Best of the Best: Lübker Golf Resort

The strange beauty of the 27-hole layout at Lübker Golf Resort (+45.38.40.80.00) springs from its combination of the exotic and the familiar, at least for non-Danes.

CordeValle: The heart of of high-end Northern Cal resort golf

For most starry-eyed golfers traveling south on Highway 101 from newly overhauled San Jose International Airport, there's one destination in mind, and one only: First name Pebble, last name Beach.

Golf: Denmark's the Spot

Thanks in part to native PGA stars like Thomas Bjørn, golf is booming in Denmark.

The Links at Bodega Harbour completes golf course renovation

The Links at Bodega Harbour recently completed a $1.2 million golf course renovation project that includes widening the fairways, converting the greens from poa annua to bent grass, repositioning bunkers and improving the drainage system. Golf course architect Robert Trent Jones, Jr., returned to The Links at Bodega Harbour to make the design enhancements that included re-grading all 18 greens and re-shaping 94 bunkers.

The Gifted Life of a Young Golf Course Architect

The kid architect handed me a golf ball. "Your goal," said Jay Blasi, "is to bring it back."

I was playing my first round at the wild and woolly Chambers Bay, the upstart Northwest muni that in its first year of operation was awarded both the U.S. Amateur (2010) and the U.S. Open (2015). Blasi was 28 when he wrote himself into golf history by sharing design credits for Chambers Bay with Robert Trent Jones Jr., and Bruce Charlton. The facility is on everyone's "best-of" lists; it's the only course built in the past 45 years to be anointed with a U.S. Open.

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.

Read the full article starting on Page 25.

From a Designer's Draftboard - Going for Green

Golf course architects must communicate to developers and owners that even in cases where they may need to invest a bit more up front to be environmentally responsible, there are clear payoffs—not just to natural streams and the like, but also to revenue streams.

Holiday Season Brings Early Gifts to 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.

Read the full article starting on Page 25.

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?

Read the full article starting on Page 16

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.