California Golf Club of San Francisco
San Francisco, California
In 2007 the California Golf Club of San Francisco, one of the Bay Area's oldest and most respected private clubs, was completely renovated under the direction of Kyle Phillips Golf Course Design. The original A. Vernon Macan design was architecturally restored within the current property boundaries, using 1927 as a benchmark, when Dr. Alister Mackenzie re-bunkered the course.
Del Paso Country Club
Sacramento, California
Del Paso Country Club celebrated its 90th anniversary when the new course redesigned by Kyle Phillips opened for play July 2006. Founded in 1916, Del Paso once hosted tournaments that included legendary players such as Sir Henry Cotton and Tommy Armour, as well as the 1982 US Women's Open. The architectural personality of the original course designed by Scotsman John Black has been maintained while regaining its championship status.
Dundonald Links
Loch Lomond Golf Club, Troon
This Kyle Phillips link course can be added to the list of Royal Troon, Prestwick and Western Gailes, all connected by the historic Ayrshire rail line. Making its debut when the world of golf comes to Troon for The Open Championship in 2004, Dundonald has already been mooted as the future venue for the future venue for the Scottish Open.
Golf Eichenheim
Kitzbuhel-Aurach
The majestic Wilder Kaiser or "Wild King" mountain range serves as the backdrop for the Par Five, Tenth Hole at Golf Eichenheim. This Kyle Phillips design is the site of the Austrain Masters and is already one of the top-rated courses in Austria.
Kingsbarns Golf Links
St. Andrews
Near St. Andrews, Scotland, Kingsbarns is a magnificent seaside links course ranked among the Top 50 courses in the world by Golf Magazine 2001. It also received Golf Digest's Best New International Course in February 2001. Kingsbarns opened July 2000 and began hosting the Dunhill Links Championship in 2001.
The PGA of Sweden National Golf Resort
Troup
Only 30 minutes from Copenhagen, Denmark and 15 minutes from Malmo, Sweden, this scenic southern location offers players a longer golf season. This spectacular facility features the highest quality golf and training experience in Scandinavia, consisting of two new Kyle Phillips Golf Course Design championship courses and a nine hole short course. The Links Course, with its classic links-style architecture and traditional fescue grasses opens for play in May 2009.
The Grove
London
Beautifully situated along the Grand Union Canal on the site of a 17th Century English Estate, this Kyle Phillips course has been designed in a traditional English style. This course is part of a 300 acre five-star country estate located within 40 minutes of London's West End.
Incline Village Championship & Mountain Course
Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Located on the North Shore of Lake Tahoe, Nevada. The Championship Course at Incline Village enjoys views of Lake Tahoe and the majestic Sierra Nevada Mountains. Originally designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr. in 1964, the course was completely remodeled by Kyle Phillips and reopened in the fall of 2004.
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Monday, May 1, 2000
Travel and Leisure Golf After an agreeable, inland six-mile drive south on the A917 from St. Andrews, turn left past a rusty old gate, meander through a towering grove of beech trees and emerge onto a brief porch of land revealing, not a mile distant, the shimmering teal and gray of the North Sea. In the space between you and the sea sits the world's newest ancient golf course, Kingsbarns Golf Links, which is routed beautifully across land on which golf was played as early as 1793. In 1939, the site was usurped by the British Ministry of Defence during World War II and was left unrestored until now.
Thanks, in part, to an interest-free loan of one million pounds from the R&A, American entrepreneur Mark Parsinen hired former Robert Trent Jones Jr. associate Kyle Phillips to transform this unique littoral property into a course created less by the elements than for them. A par-seventy-two layout measuring a punishing 7,100 yards, Kingsbarns has a true linksland sensibility. Not a single hole is without an ocean view, and nowhere will you find shelter from the gales. Man-made swales bow gently toward the sea like monks kneeling for prayer. Or perhaps they are genuflecting to such eye-popping holes as the 590-yard par-five twelfth that scythes hard along the shoreline, or the 215-yard par-three fifteenth, which calls for a Cypress Point-like carry across a ragged elbow of an inlet.
Although the price of playing this gem ($135) will be similar to that of the Old Course, Kingsbarns will have to cope with a problem the Old Course manages well: the pace of play. Kingsbarns is a very difficult test. If the wind howls (Scotland 's meteorological equivalent of death and taxes) and you are finding the thatched fescue, a round could last considerably longer than the four hours locals consider the outer limits of acceptability. Still, it's a problem worth having. There have been rumblings of one day slotting the course into the Open rota. There's a new temple in St. Andrews. Let the pilgrimages begin. For a tee time, call 011-44-1334-880222.Labels: Kingsbarns, Press
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