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We believe the organizing committee for Rio 2016 made an astute decision by engaging Gil Hanse and his team to design and build the new Olympic golf course in Brazil. What do you think, was Hanse the best candidate or should they have gone with somebody else? Vote now. Who should have won the 2016 Olympic Golf Course Design contest?....


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A few months after calling for seismic changes to the golf industry in Asia, the organizers of the Asia Pacific Golf Summit have proven their dedication to the cause by…..inviting yet another signature ‘designer’ to spruik for work at the 2012 event. They are also trumpeting the news that Jon Scott, head agronomist at Nicklaus Design, will speak at the summit as well.


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It all started with an innocuous comment, a simple throwaway line about the width of the fairways at Barnbougle Lost Farm. It ended with me, quite literally, sitting atop a sand dune for the best part of six hours, studying a large group of chemists as they tackled the somewhat infamous 7th hole there. While the experiment proved, yet again, that golf really isn’t much of a spectator sport, it also reinforced my long-held view that the most essential ingredient for quality golf is width.


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