Grade "A" Architecture

Yara Yara

11th Hole / Par-3 / 185 Yards
Architect: Alex Russell (1929)
Updating by Renaissance Golf Design (2017)
Bentleigh, Australia

by M. James Ward

 
St Enodoc

Church Course
10th hole / 457 Yards / Par-4
Cornwall, England
Club founded 1891 / refashioned by James Braid (1907)

By M. James Ward

Knickerbocker Country Club (1914)

Tenafly, New Jersey, USA
6th Hole / 201 Yards / Par-3
Architects: Donald Ross and Herbert Strong
Updating: Jaeger Kovich
Superintendent: Kyle Hillegass

By M. James Ward

Fields Ranch at PGA Frisco

Fields Ranch at PGA Frisco
West Course
5th Hole, Par-3, 81-145 Yards
Architect: Beau Welling (2023)
Frisco, Texas, USA

By M. James Ward

Gleneagles

PGA Centenary Course (1993)
18th Hole / 513 Yards / Par-5
Architect: Jack Nicklaus with Ron Kirby
Auchterarder, Scotland, United Kingdom

By M. James Ward

 
Le Golf National

2024 Paris Summer Olympics
Le Golf National - L’Albatros
18th Hole / 471 Yards / Par-4 / “La foule”
Architect: Hubert Chesneau and Robert Von Hagge (1990)
Extensively renovated by European Golf Design in 2015

By M. James Ward 

The Apawamis Club

Rye, New York, USA
Architect: Maturin Ballou and Willie Dunn (1901),
Most recent updating Keith Foster (2017)
7th Hole / Par-4 / 416 Yards
“GORGE”

by M. James Ward

Tamarack Country Club

Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
1st (Valley) / 437 yards / par-4
2nd (Cape) / 415 yards / par-4
Architect: Charles “Steam Shovel” Banks (1929)
Updated: Brian Schneider / Renaissance Golf (2023-24)

by M. James Ward

Shell Bay

Par-4 12th - 442 yards, Par-3 14th - 187 yards
Hallandale Beach, Florida, USA
Architect: Greg Norman (2023)

by M. James Ward

South Course (1972), 16th Hole / 444 Yards / Par-4
Architects: Desmond Muirhead with Arnold Palmer consulting and later Ted Robinson (1977)
Most recent updating – John Fought (2023)
Palm Desert, California, USA

by M. James Ward

Lough Erne Resort

Faldo Course
County Fermanagh, Enniskillen, Northern Ireland,
17th Hole, 351 Yards, Par-4 “Lough and Legend”
Architect: Nick Faldo (Opened summer 2009)

by M. James Ward with Michael Atkinson

Boat of Garten Golf & Tennis Club

13th  Hole, Par-5, 480 Yards
“Tulloch
Boat of Garten, Scotland, UK
Architect: James Braid (1898)

by M. James Ward

Bobby Jones Golf Club

8th Hole /  236 Yards / Par-3, Sarasota, FL, USA
Architect: Donald Ross (1927), Updated: Richard Mandell (2024)

by M. James Ward

The Concession Golf Club

12th Hole / Par-4 / 349 Yards
Bradenton, Florida, USA
Architects: Jack Nicklaus and Tony Jacklin (2006)

by M. James Ward

Sentosa

Serapong Course, 5th Hole / Par-4 / 485 Yards
Singapore
Architect: Ron Fream (1982)
Updated: Andrew Johnson (2020)

by M. James Ward

 
Cragun Resort  On Gull Lake

Lehman 18, 12th Hole, 160 Yards, Par-3
Architect: Tom Lehman (2023)
Brainerd, Minnesota, USA
Course updated from original design by Robert Trent Jones, Jr. (1998)

by M. James Ward

 
The Grove

9th  Hole, Par-5, 567 Yards, “Ruined Tower”
Architect: Kyle Phillips
Opened September, 2003, Hertfordshire, England

by M. James Ward

 
Close House

Lee Westwood Colt Course
13th Hole / 462 Yards / Par-4
New Castle upon Tyne, England
Architect: Scott Macpherson (May 2011)

by M. James Ward

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA
13th hole / Par-5 / 640 Yards
Architect: Robert Trent Jones, Sr. (1948)

by M. James Ward

Cragun’s Resort on Gull Lake

Brainerd, Minnesota, USA
Lehman Course
4th hole / 627 Yards / Par-5
Architect: Tom Lehman

by M. James Ward