I’m about as far from an expert on South America as you could find but I spent a week at the Olympic Games caddying for Su Oh and my experience of South American golf courses is limited to Gil Hanse’s course, made purposefully for the Olympic tournament. – Michael Clayton We did drive past Gavea,Read more
There’s simply no way a golf course architect’s design can please everyone. A few years ago we made a new par-3 13th hole at Metropolitan. The Dick Wilson original, built in the early 1960s after the state government compulsorily acquired most of the back nine to build a school, had spawned a problem with neighboringRead more
Why are smart players increasingly being penalised for executing skillful shots that leave them optimum lines into flags? It doesn’t take all 140 Twitter characters to ask: “Why are all the bunkers in the rough – again? – Michael Clayton My fellow columnist John Huggan and I jokingly pose the same question almost each andRead more
There’s a good reason many golf architects are embracing the idiom “everything old is new again”… “Why would we want to restore those bunkers? Do we all want to go back to driving 1930s cars? – Michael ClaytonRead more