AI is impacting the way we live in virtually every industry and across all platforms. In golf course design, however, the capability of AI to help develop ideas and craft new courses has only begun to ...

Golf Digest gave the Bates College golf team the assignment of a lifetime: Use Adobe Firefly software to create your dream golf holes. The results offer a look at how AI could transform course design.

Storm King in New York's Hudson Valley has five 9-hole routings, myriad teeing options and upward of 45 possible holes.

Jim Nantz has said one of his dream jobs as a kid was golf course architecture. The renowned CBS golf broadcaster even built a replica of Pebble Beach’s par 3 seventh hole in the backyard of his home ...

Inside every avid golfer is a golf-course architect. Or at least a little voice that says, “I could so build a cool par-3 on that empty parcel.” But daydreaming is not the same as doing. A new program ...

Like an abstract painting splattered on a canvas, the skill of golf course design is easy to dismiss. A tee box, a green, a fairway and some bunkers in between. The whole time you think, Hell, I could ...

Kohler announced King Collins Dormer Golf Course Design for its new 14 hole Purebred Farm course, set to start construction in fall 2025 near Blackwolf Run.

I grew up playing and loving golf but was always interested in course architecture and the strategy behind the game – I just never really saw it as a potential career. I went to college at Brown ...

If you can’t stop doodling golf holes on scraps of paper, or you spend long drives staring at blank landscapes and dreaming of building a course, the American Society of Golf Course Architects has an ...

Tom Lehman is in Brainerd, Minnesota — about an hour and a half from where he grew up and still spends his summers. "Alexandria is a tremendous town. Always has been," said Lehman. "It's growing and ...

Ernie Els is designing his first golf course in Mexico, a links layout along the beach in Cabo that's the centerpiece to a new community opening in 2026 called OLEADA. Ernie Els has always been a ...