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El Tamarindo was carved out of the natural vegetation by San Diego-based architect David Fleming and it’s one of the most spectacular golf courses to be found anywhere in the world.
Payne’s Valley was the third 18-hole layout to open for play at Big Cedar Lodge when it appeared in the fall of 2020, following on from Tom Fazio’s Buffalo Ridge Springs design and Coore & Crenshaw’s Ozarks National course.
Construction of the new St Patrick’s links at Rosapenna Hotel & Golf Resort began in April 2018, with Tom Doak’s lead associate Eric Everson working alongside Clyde Johnson and Angela Moser to complete the build during 2020.
Configured as two returning nines, the New course at Les Bordes features four engaging par threes which measure between 131 yards at the 7th and 230 yards at the 14th.
Dumbarnie Links lies within the 5,000-acre Balcarres Estate, a property that’s been in the hands of Lord Balniel’s family for more than four hundred years. It’s a Clive Clark design which first opened its doors to the public as a pay-and-play facility in the spring of 2020.
Situated ten miles north of Ostrava in the village of Šilheøovice, the course at Park Golf Club was established in 1968 and it’s laid out in the rolling parkland estate that surrounds the magnificent Rothschild Chateau.
Located on the Shandong Peninsula, Tiger Beach Golf Links was designed by Beta Soong, a Taiwanese developer, who took four years to fashion his version of a Scottish links on a tract of land overlooking the Yellow Sea. Unfortunately in April 2019 Tiger Beach closed.
Designed by Joe Finger for businessman Marvin Leonard, who also built Colonial and Shady Oaks, the course at Starr Hollow Golf Club is laid out with eighteen tees and nine greens, with different coloured flags for the two nines.
Designed by Kyle Phillips, the PGA National Czech Republic course is the sporting centrepiece of the 350-acre Oaks Prague estate, featuring a clubhouse that was once a chateau listed in the historic building register to the Von Schuttelsberg family.
The Sheep Ranch course at Bandon Dunes finally debuted in 2020, with nine greens located against the bluffs, making full use of a mile of ocean shoreline. Interestingly, there are no sand bunkers here; only twenty or so grassy depressions...
Sagebrush ran into serious financial difficulties and closed its tees for play in the fall of 2014 and was due to reopen in 2016 as a high-end pay-and-play public facility managed by Troon Golf. However in September 2017 the course closed and has remained shut with reopening planned for July 2021.
If you're fed up slogging your way round the windy links courses, treat yourself to a scenic and tranquil piece of Letham Grange Golf Club. ... but make it quick. The committee has recommended that both club and courses should close due to a long-standing legal conflict over property ownership and declining membership.
An outstanding Arthur Hills layout, the Hills course (formerly known as Legends) at LPGA International is the perfect foil to its 18-hole sibling, the Rees Jones-designed course.
The tree-lined 18-hole golf course of the mega Clube Curitibano measures a little more than 6,600 yards from the tips and there’s plenty of water to negotiate here in the shape of multiple lakes and even a dam.
One of only a small number of public golf courses designed by Tom Fazio, the 18-hole layout at Butterfield Trail cost a reputed $23 million to construct on land adjacent to El Paso International Airport. The course was closed briefly during 2020 before being reacquired and reopened.
The course at Emerald Hills Country Club – designed by Bruce Devlin with Robert von Hagge – debuted in 1969. Twenty years later, the layout was redesigned and reopened as The Club at Emerald Hills.
