Oakmont: Some Random Thoughts

in Golf Architecture | by Tony Cashmore | comments | 29 Jun 2007

Oakmont Country Club

This is a personal reaction to the golf course and its preparation which examined the world’s best players in the US Open. I was fortunate to play Oakmont twice some 15 years ago, when my golf wasn’t too bad (then handicap 6 – 7), in summer, when the ball was running and the greens were shiny slick I loved it, although it was about the toughest test, apart from Carnoustie, I’ve ever played, and ...
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Golf Architecture

Golf Architecture

What Makes A Successful Golf Course?

in Golf Architecture | by Tony Cashmore | comments | 16 Jul 2006

I was asked recently - 'What makes a golf course successful?'The questioner was deliberately not talking about location, or the course's operations, or financial return on investment, or the value
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Tackling the Par-5 Problem

in Golf Architecture | by Tony Cashmore | comments | 27 Mar 2006

I've written before about the enigma a golf course architect has in devising par-5 holes today. The essential dilemma is this: if you make a par-5 long enough to seriously
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Judging the Competition

in Golf Architecture | by Tony Cashmore | comments | 19 Dec 2005

This article is an interim report; to many readers of this forum, and to throngs throughout the world of golf who relished the idea we had, to offer an internship
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Pondering A Golf Course Under Construction

in Golf Architecture | by Tony Cashmore | comments | 31 Oct 2005

The Henley Course at The Heritage in Melbourne's eastern suburbs now has 13 holes formed, most of them grassed and being mown. And three further holes right now are being
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Routing Golf Courses: My Personal Experiences

in Golf Architecture | by Tony Cashmore | comments | 15 Mar 2005

This article is spurred by an iseekgolf.com forum contributor's statement that: "In considering golf course routing I am continuously disenchanted with the compromises I see, especially in new courses". He
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Should Tees Be Flat?

in Golf Architecture | by Tony Cashmore | comments | 29 Nov 2004

An early question on the iseekgolf.com forums asked my thoughts about tees, and I've titled my response with tongue in cheek - because we know that the perfect teeing ground
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Judging the value of a golf course

in Golf Architecture | by Tony Cashmore | comments | 12 Oct 2004

Why does each of us react so strongly, and often very differently to a golf course - any new course, or the re-visiting of one beloved? Sure, we love golf,
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Can quirky come back into courses?

in Golf Architecture | by Tony Cashmore | comments | 14 Sep 2004

In the earliest days of golf, the courses were adventurous, grossly unfair, deliberately so; the idea was to have fun, and I think there might have been ribald shiacking, one
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The Dunes Golf Links - Hole 6

in Golf Architecture | by Tony Cashmore | comments | 10 Aug 2004

There's been a lot of comment, and yes, controversy, about Hole 6 at The Dunes - a long, downhill par-3 to a broad green somewhat cringing behind a bosumy central
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The Opening Hole

in Golf Architecture | by Tony Cashmore | comments | 26 Jul 2004

What is the ideal opening golf hole? Not so long ago, many architects laying out a new course would try for a par-5 to open the round, fairly open and
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The Starting Point

in Golf Architecture | by Tony Cashmore | comments | 26 Jul 2004

Many learned treatises have been written about how to route the golf course - there are even computer programs now which purport to assemble and analyse all relevant information in
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Talking of Par-5's

in Golf Architecture | by Tony Cashmore | comments | 26 Jul 2004

When routing and fashioning a golf course on new ground, the hardest thing a golf architect has to do, usually, is to plan out the par-5 holes. I say usually,
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