Bulldozers are moving in Minnesota! After an eighteen-month planning process Missouri-based contractor Mid-America Golf & Landscape won the public bid and has broken ground. The redesigned and rebranded Loop at Chaska will reopen in 2022.
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Celebrating Charles Blair Macdonald
In a two-part feature for Japan’s Golf Digest Choice magazine, Benjamin explored the remarkable contribution of C.B. Macdonald to the art of golf course architecture: template holes.
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A Course Fit for a King
When Erik Anders Lang visited Morocco Benjamin was on hand to help out. The Adventures in Golf team came in hot with cameras rolling. One thing led to another and Benjamin became part of the story.
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The Nest at Cabot Opens for Play
Congratulations to Whitman-Axland-Cutten on the newest addition to the Cabot Links resort in Nova Scotia. Benjamin joined the build team in summer 2019, arriving just in time to help Rod Whitman and Keith Cutten build their rendition of North Berwick’s Redan hole.
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Chaska Approves Redesign Plans for Short Course
The City of Chaska in Minnesota has approved plans from Artisan Golf Design for the redesign of Chaska Par 30, a municipal short course originally laid out by Robert Trent Jones that neighbours Hazeltine National.
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Gallery: The Monster of Morocco Bares its Teeth
Two days after the 2018 Trophée Hassan II JHD Golf Architects started rebuilding the greens and bunkers at Royal Golf Dar Es Salam. After a herculean effort the course reopened to host the 2019 edition of the Trophée. Benjamin and James were invited back to Morocco to watch the European Tour tackle the ‘Monster’.
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USGA Innovation Symposium in Tokyo
Can short courses save golf? The USGA invited Benjamin to discuss this loaded question with a panel of experts at its biennial Innovation Symposium. Ultimately we turned the USGA’s original question on its head and made a plea for golf’s leaders to help save urban courses from redevelopment.
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