It all began with an apparently innocent request – for the members of the Society of Australian Golf Course Architects (SAGCA) to contribute to an Australian Golf Digest article by scoring (anonymously) our finest courses. The idea was to produce a collaborative Top 20 list, in order to see wh

It is with unreserved hesitation that I announce plans to establish Darius Oliver Golf Course Design, a new golf design business aimed principally at golf clubs and developers who wish to build courses without genuine golf architects. For many years now the business of golf course design has been

Later this month the final major championship for 2010 will be played on the Straits Course at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin, designed by enigmatic 80+ year-old architect Pete Dye. Whistling Straits first opened for play in 1998, two years prior to Scotland’s Kingsbarns course, which is a sim