DESIGN PHILOSOPHY
We are committed to designing golf courses that are both challenging and visually stimulating to all levels of golfers.
We are strongly committed to designing courses that are challenging and of interest to golfers, with a visual attractiveness that will
encourage them to return. Working to enhance the natural characteristics of each site Golf Strategies seeks to create golf courses
of great natural beauty that are also cost effective to construct and to maintain. We believe that we could best summarise our
design philosophy by borrowing from the great Scottish architect Dr Alister Mackenzie who set down his 13 points for the ideal golf
course in his book ‘Golf Architecture’ published in 1920, as follows:
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Two loops of nine holes are preferable;
At least four one shot holes, two or three drive and pitch holes, and a large proportion of good two shot holes;
Short walks from green to next tee, preferably forward to allow elasticity for future lengthening;
Undulating greens and fairways without hill climbing;
Every hole should have a different character;
There should be a minimum of blindness for the approach shots;
The course should have beautiful surroundings with the man-made features indistinguishable from nature.
Sufficient number of heroic carries from the tee with the option of alternative routes for the shorter player if he is prepared to
sacrifice a stroke or portion of a stroke;
Variety in the strokes required to play the various holes, i.e., challenging shot making;
No lost balls;
Playing interest to stimulate improvement in even the plus hand