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ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

To integrate golf and the environment by engaging communities, enhancing biodiversity, encouraging efficiency in resource management, generating employment. Such integration essentially safeguards all the aspects of a site, its surrounding areas and its inhabitants to ensure environmental sustainability for centuries.

02

INTEGRATING GOLF INTO THE LANDSCAPE

Lay of the land determines the design of the golf course - routing, drainage, contours, vegetation, etc. To develop golf course as natural as possible an architect must blend the golf course design features into the existing topography and utilise the natural settings of the land as much as possible which helps in avoiding habitat disruption and retaining the natural biodiversity and aesthetics. Using surface natural water as water hazard rather than creating new one, using existing vegetation rather than planting new, minimal bunkers, archaeologically significant areas.

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ENSURING COURSE PLAYABILITY & QUALITY

Every course should be playable for all because 80% of golfers play the game as a recreational activity. Ensuring each hole is routed in a manner which allows alternative paths for golfers that want to avoid a hazard and all shot shapes for golfers to either draw or slice, etc. Such key design practices and layouts offers enjoyability to beginner golfer and throws challenges for intermediate or scratch golfers, this process eventually helps in encouraging more people to play the game of golf which would ultimately turn this sport into a democratic sport.

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MINIMAL EARTH MOVEMENT

Earth movement is generally determined by the design & its specifications. With minimalist approach earth movement can drastically be reduced which eventually lowers the construction cost. Oldest courses like Askernish Links, St. Andrews Links, Carnoustie Links, Turnberry Links are built with minimalist approach.