Poppy Hills begins yearlong renovation

Poppy Hills Golf Course in Pebble Beach, Calif., has begun an extensive makeover under the direction of the Robert Trent Jones II architectural firm. Jones designed the course – perhaps best known as part of the rotation for the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am from 1991-2009 – almost 30 years ago.

Run to the border to play R.T.J. II's superb, affordable new design, Max A. Mandel

How close is the new Max A. Mandel Golf Course to the Mexican border? "If you slice one bad enough," says its designer Robert Trent Jones II, "you'll need a passport to retrieve it."

Local golf notebook: Robert Trent Jones Jr. says farewell to original Poppy Hills

Fittingly, the person who took the final shot at the original Poppy Hills Golf Course was the course's creator.

Architect Robert Trent Jones Jr. was joined by Northern California Golf Association CEO Lyn Nelson and United States Golf Association West Region director Ron Read as the trio bid their farewells to the original Poppy Hills during an informal ceremony held at the course last Thursday.

Puerto Rico's Revival

Golf : Puerto Rico's Revival - Between the reborn golf beacon at Dorado Beach and the glorious new Royal Isabela, developed by tennis player Charlie Pasarell, Puerto Rico is once again vying for a place in the Caribbean golf firmament. Just watch out for that Hail Mary par 3 on the cliffs at Royal Isabela.

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Laredo's New Course Offers Golf to 'The Max'

Plenty of golf architecture firms (including many "big name" designers) answered the call for proposals to craft a proposed new municipal golf course in Laredo, Texas. These craftspeople were looking at ANY opportunity to earn a commission and construct a new golf facility in the United States, a rarity in a nation that has seen more course closures than openings in the past few years.

Welcome to The Max! City of Laredo Municipal Golf Course

City of Laredo mayor and council members host Texas-sized soft opening for the Max A. Mandel Municipal Golf Course, a Robert Trent Jones, II signature design.

New Texas Course Set to Open This Month

The Max. A. Mandel Municipal Golf Course will finally open this month in Laredo, Texas. One of the few new golf venues to debut this year in the U.S., it is the first city-owned public golf facility in Laredo.

Onyria Palmares named Best Golf Course in Portuguese tourism Oscars

While the eyes of the entertainment world were on the Emmys ceremony in Los Angeles this weekend, the outstanding Onyria Palmares Beach & Golf Resort picked up one of Portugal’s ‘national tourism Oscars’ at the Publituris Portugal Travel Awards.

Costa Navarino: Greek golf hits the sweet spot

Will the luxury resort lure golfers to the Peloponnese? James Cusick thinks so

The Architect's Progress - Great Greens and Fairway Undulations at Long Island National

It's tough to get a pulse on Robert Trent Jones, Jr.'s architectural style since he's done so much globetrotting and designed in so many different ecosystems. He also keeps having epiphany after epiphany regarding design strategies, proving that you can teach old dogs new tricks and they can get really good at them.

New Mexico refuge for golf-hungry Texans

More than 40 years ago, Wendell Chino, the autocratic but far-thinking president of the Mescalero Apache Nation in southeastern New Mexico, gathered some tribal council members at a fallow field of oats beneath their sacred Sierra Blanca Peak near Ruidoso.

Princeville Renaissance

Kauai is as enchanting an island as there is, in Hawaii or anywhere in the world. Where land meets sea, she is ringed by gentle beaches. Her interior is a heave of bright-green mountains with sharp, knife-like ridges, often capped with clouds. Tall palm trees, thick vines, and red and yellow blossoms line her roads. When we think of things "tropical," it is Kauai that comes to mind.

Best of the Best 2012: Golf Courses: The Bay Course at Costa Navarino

The Bay Course at Costa Navarino (www.costanavarinogolf.com) is the second of what will eventually be at least four courses at the sprawling Costa Navarino resort in Messenia, a historically significant region in Greece's southwest Peloponnese.

CALIFORNIA DREAMIN' — Links at Spanish Bay

Location, location, location.
Thanks to its scenic setting along 17-Mile Drive, few would argue the Links at Spanish Bay is a special golf course.

Chambers Bay in Washington state celebrates Earth Day ecologically

It takes a lot of equipment and fuel to mow and maintain a 250-acre golf course like Chambers Bay. But on Earth Day, not an ounce of gas was used to maintain the course.

Mallorca's Club de Golf Alcanada voted top European golf course

Club de Golf Alcanada has confirmed its position as one of the top venues on the continent after being named the best golf course in Europe for the fourth year in a row at the world's leading travel trade show.

Olympic golf course designers narrowed

Brazilian officials say Jack Nicklaus, Robert Trent Jones Jr. and other top golf course architects are in the running to design the 2016 Olympic course.

Renovated Dorado Beach reopens

The famous East course at the Dorado Beach resort in Puerto Rico has reopened after an eighteen month renovation programme led by the Robert Trent Jones II firm.

Tips From the 15th Hole: Golf at Robert Trent Jones II, Nevis

The third in our series of favourite signature holes, a Four Seasons Resort Nevis golf expert shares what you need to know about this unique par-5 hole.

Kaua'i, Hawaii resorts honored by Golf Digest in 'Top 75' list

The Kauai Visitors Bureau has announced that golf resorts on the Garden Isle have been honored in Golf Digest's list of the "Best 75 Golf Resorts in North America."

Church Nine refurbishment gains plaudits for The Wisley

Robert Trent Jones II, the design team behind the original concept saw the renovation as an opportunity to “polish the gem” and take an already renowned Church nine and make it better.

Onyria Palmares: Breathtaking beauty

Robert Trent Jones II unveils redesigned 27-hole course in Algarve

The Prince Course gets a royal facelift

Any hands-on homeowner will appreciate what’s going on at the Prince Golf Course at Hanalei Bay.
What was initially conceived as simply a “bunker renovation” has evolved into a massive project that’s turned the whole property upside down.

Navarino: Beauty by The Bay

Designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr, it promises to be a significant attraction at Costa Navarino under Troon Golf management and alongside the Bernhard Langer Dunes course opened last year.

Brand new RTJ courses break into the European top 100!

The Scandinavian Golf Club's two new courses - the Robert Trent Jones Junior-designed Old and New - have been attracting serious attention and have been included in Golf World magazine's top 100 courses in Europe for the first time.

Man muss auf das Land höre

genf. Robert Trent Jones Jr. ist der Sohn des legendären Golfplatzarchitekten Robert Trent Jones und folgte in den 1960erJahren genauso wie sein Bruder Rees Jones in die Fußstapfen seines berühmten Vaters. In seiner Karriere hat der heute 72-jährige Amerikaner, der von seinen Freunden Bobby genannt wird, mehr als 250 Golfplätze neu designt oder umgestaltet

Stunning Troon Managed Bay Course Unveiled At Costa Navarino

One of the world’s most exciting new golf destinations is set to unveil The Bay Course, designed by legendary architect Robert Trent Jones Jr. this October.

Robert Trent Jones as he talks about the Geneva Golf Club

We catch up with famous course architect Robert Trent Jones as he talks about the Gevena Golf Club in Switzerland designed by his father.

Renovated Prince ready to reopen

The Prince course at the Princeville resort on the island of Kauai in Hawaii will reopen on 14 December after a renovation led by the Robert Trent Jones II firm, the course’s original designers.

University Ridge ranked No. 5 college course in the nation

University Ridge Golf Course has been rated one of the top campus courses in the nation in 2011 according to the Sept. 7 Golfweek Magazine. Opened in 1991, the Robert Trent Jones designed course was ranked No. 5 among all collegiate courses and the top course in the Big Ten Conference.

Tiger adds October's Frys.com Open to schedule

Tiger Woods has committed to play in the Frys.com Open, Oct. 6-9, at CordeValle Golf Club in San Martin, Calif., he announced Monday.

Catching up with Robert Trent Jones Jr

What can you learn about architecture legend Robert Trent Jones Jr. over a few holes in Portugal's Algarve? As Clive Agran discovered, it can be everything from fiscal policy to his ten most coveted golf course designs around the world.

Won with nature

Choosing his words carefully, Robert Trent Jones II suggests there might just be a little poetic justice in Portugal's failure to land the 2018 Ryder Cup. "Once in a decade an opportunity [comes along] to have a piece ..

Robert Trent Jones II chats to Golfmagic

The landscape poet speaks to Andy Roberts about his golf course design philosophy. Trent Jones II has designed or redesigned more than 250 golf courses throughout the last four decades across six continents.

Onyria Palmares: Breathtaking beauty

Robert Trent Jones II unveils redesigned 27-hole course in Algarve

Daydream becomes reality at Palmares

Onyria Palmares was opened to widespread acclaim earlier in June, with famed course architect Robert Trent Jones Jnr on hand to christen his latest creation, and the bar has been set high with a Ryder Cup the aim of owner Jose Carlos Pinto Coelho.

Golf, Art Are Weapons in Portugal Debt Battle

On an oceanfront terrace in the Portuguese sardine-fishing hamlet Meia Praia, Sergio Vidal Balaguer is betting $1 billion that a “new luxury” will emerge from global economic calamity.

New-look Palmares takes the prize

Onyria, owned by the Pinto Coelho family which developed Quinta da Marinha in the 1980s in association with the firm of Robert Trent Jones Sr, bought Palmares back in 2003. To bring about its desired transformation at Palmares, the company chose the design practice of Robert Trent Jones Jr, continuing its 30 year association with the Jones family.

Trent Jones II to open breathtaking resort

The official opening of the stunning Onyria Palmares Beach & Golf Resort, in Portugal’s Algarve, will be performed by the man who has designed the 27-hole complex to stunning effect: American course architect Robert Trent Jones II.

Robert Trent Jones Jr. on the history of the White House putting green

I've always been around the political scene - I'm friends with President Clinton, and my father played golf with Eisenhower.

A New Shade of Green in Kauai

It was good to hear that Poipu Bay Golf Course in Kauai, home of the PGA Grand Slam of Golf from 1994 – 2006, reopened in December, 2010 following a nine-month greens refurbishment project....

Pasatiempo and CordeValle: Double Delight

Someone had a great idea. Create a package that lets you play two really good courses that couldn’t be more fun or more different, and are only 25 miles apart...

Four Seasons Nevis is (Finally) Back!

More than two years after a hurricane ravaged the small island of Nevis, one half of the Confederation of Nevis & St. Kitts, the nation’s flagship luxury resort has finally re-opened....

Lübker Is Formidable Danish Presencel

The strange beauty of Lübker Golf Resort’s 27-hole layout springs from its combination of the exotic and the familiar, at least for us non-Danes...

My Favorite Robert Trent Jones, Jr. Golf Courses

I find Robert Trent Jones, II golf courses to usually be a marriage of artistry and outdoor chess meaning that you will likely encounter not only an athletic challenge, but also a strategic one as well, and one distracted by Jones’ ability to artistically compliment and mesh with whatever environment he encounters...

Glencoe’s Glen Forest course getting a facelift

It was Robert Trent Jones Jr.’s first design on Canadian soil. Now, it’s getting a second look.

Charting An Unconventional Course

Robert Trent Jones Jr. describes his masterpiece, Chambers Bay. These photographs illustrate some of the key elements of this true links course in a traditional maritime climate. Chambers Bay is a fascinating course. Enjoy! -Robert Trent Jones Jr., Feb. 1, 2011...

With Olympics coming, golf world turns to Brazil

The golf world is starting to pay attention to the land of futebol.
With Rio de Janeiro preparing for golf's return to the Olympics after an absence of more than 100 years, some of the sport's top names are starting to show an interest in Brazil, especially in the opportunity to design the course that will host the historic tournament at the 2016 games.

Robert Trent Jones, Jr. and the Edges of Doom

Behind many of his more than 250 golf designs in more than 40 countries on six continents, stands a man who works on many levels, who welcomes a new challenge, and who sees the game and his pursuit of it as not just a physical– but as a metaphysical– journey....

What is the World’s “Best Date Golf Course?”

What is this mystery fabulous date course?
Scouring the more than 2,300 courses I’ve played, which one would be the very best to take a date to play golf? The course must be scenic in a romantic location, be challenging, but not over-the-top difficult. There would be beautiful landscaping, not of the Augusta National-Japanese garden variety or the minimalist scruffy links sort I typically enjoy, but rather be peaceful, colorful with romantic fragrances and a variety of vegetation and wildlife, perhaps tropical backdrops, and large bodies of water. The birds would sing and look as beautiful...

Dorado Beach Undergoes Major Makeover

Dorado, Puerto Rico - Leading golf course operator KemperSports, in connection with Robert Trent Jones II Golf Course Architects and Dorado Beach Resort, announced Jan. 4...

Stanford Golf Training Complex Is Intellectual Exercise

You would expect that any practice facility designed to sharpen the skills of Stanford University’s men’s and women’s golf teams would be well thought-out. Even so, the Seibel Varsity Golf Training Complex is impressive for its elaborate, positively scholarly, approach to game improvement. Indeed, as designed by Robert Trent Jones...