England Golf Breaks: Top Ranked Courses on the Mackenzie Trail
March 05, 2025 / Golf Course Architects
This MacKenzie Trail takes you through the six most authentic Dr. MacKenzie courses that are ranked in the England Top 100. There are several others of the Doctors courses in the top 100 but they no longer met our validity test. This is nor...

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Golf Breaks in England: The AGS Southern Mackenzie Trail
December 05, 2024 / Golf Course Architects
This MacKenzie Trail takes you to our six most authentic Dr MacKenzie courses in Southern England. There are five different types of golf course in England and by chance, this trail includes them all. Two courses are seaside links golf cour...

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Eddie Hackett: Golf Architect
September 27, 2024 / Golf Course Architects
Dublin native Eddie Hackett designed, extended or modified over 100 golf courses over his lengthy career. No job was too big or too small and his design philosophy remained tastefully minimalist throughout his lifetime. He worked similarly ...

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Golf Course Architects: Pat Ruddy & Patrick Merrigan
December 20, 2017 / Golf Course Architects
Pat Ruddy  Pat Ruddy comes from the small townland of Ballymote in County Sligo, North West Ireland. He has been consumed by golf all of his life. He was a good amateur player; he then became one of Ireland’s most prolifi...

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Colt No. 3 – Best of Colt – Trail from our top 10 Colt selections
April 18, 2017 / Featured Golf Destinations
AGS Golf - Trail and ‘Hotspot Series Colt No. 3 – Best of Colt – Trail from our top 10 Colt selections Our Best of Colt ‘top 10 selection’ are the courses that best represent Harry Colt’s design pri...

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Colt No.2 – Best of Colt – Hotspot, from our top 10 Colt selections
April 10, 2017 / Featured Golf Destinations
AGS Golf - Trail and ‘Hotspot Series Colt No.2 – Best of Colt – Hotspot, from our top 10 Colt selections   Our Best of Colt ‘top 10 selection’ are the courses that best represent Harry Colt’...

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Harry Colt Golf Architect (1869-1951)
April 04, 2017 / Golf Course Architects
Harry Colt had a remarkable influence on British golf course design. He came on the scene in 1894 at the age of 25. At this time seaside courses were well-regarded and inland courses were poor by comparison. Courses built inland did not mer...

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St Andrews Cheape Golf Bunker Restoration
March 03, 2017 / St Andrews
At St Andrews Old Course groundsmen have undertaken a project to revisit and restore Cheape’s bunker to a shape more akin to what historical records showed the bunker looked like back in the 1800’s. Positioned on the 2nd fa...

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England’s South West Trail of Superb Harry Colt Designed Courses
January 25, 2017 / Golf Course Architects
This Trail takes you to five genuine Harry Colt courses in South West England. There is an interesting mix of five courses with one seaside links, two are heathland, and two are downland. For accommodation we have selected a hotel in the fa...

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Five Genuine Harry Colt Design Courses
November 16, 2016 / Golf Course Architects
Our Best of Harry Colt's ‘top 10 selection’ are the golf courses that best represent Harry Colt’s design principles. They value his design, some after more than 100 years, and are keen on maintaining or sometimes resto...

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