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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Wednesday, November 1, 2000
Golf World InternationalThe boom in golf course building is over. Only a handful of good new tracks have opened since 1998 and yet among them are some corkers. First among them is Kingsbarns, an amazing new links on the coast of Fife. Opened just this year, it may prove to be the last true links course ever built in the UK, and already it's being mooted as a possible future Open venue. If you think Loch Lomond has exploded like a grenade into our top 100, wait till you see what Kingsbarns does.
Just six miles from St Andrews, Kingsbarns is truly extraordinary. As probably the last links to be built on the Scottish coast, it has absorbed every smidgen of detail, every ounce of inspiration from 600 years of golf history - and improved on it.
The amazing thing about this course, though, is that it is totally man-made. What was once arable farmland sloping steeply down to a rocky beach has been transformed into windswept linksland, which fits as naturally into the scene as the sea itself. More than 300,000 cubic tonnes of earth were shifted to create the wildly rolling dunes, sweeping fairways, pot bunkers and heaving greens. Authentic fine fescue-bent turf grasses give that springy feel.
What makes Kingsbarns better than the real thing are the sea views. Most links, like St Andrews' Old Course down the road, sit behind waves of low-lying dunes, obscuring the waters. But there isn't a hole at Kingsbarns without the great expanse of the North Sea in sight. Pure exhilaration.
What's interesting about the course is that at heart it is a very traditional layout. Although created from arable farmland, with thousands of tons of earth shifted, it is the embodiment of the "natural" school of design. What's more, it seems to be the standard-bearer for a general shift back towards a more traditional golf landscape. This year's Top 100 ranking shows old-fashioned courses reasserting themselves in the list at the expense of newer, brasher designs. And leading design gurus think the trend runs deep. Everyone agrees that Kingsbarns is in the vanguard of this 'back-to-the-future' trend.
"I'm disappointed that an American designed it," says Howard Swan, "but it is a superb achievement. It's a remarkable piece of land now; and I'm very pleased the designer, Kyle Phillips, resurrected the old stream and the old bridge from years before. That's a wonderful touch. When Gold gives you a wonderful bit of land, you shouldn't be doing very much to it." "Kingsbarns is a gem," agrees R&A secretary Peter Dawson. "I think it is going to be one of the great links courses; and it may well be the last one built in the UK. There's no course I've been to where you can see more of the sea from every hole. The attention to detail is extraordinary."Labels: Kingsbarns, Press
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