Facing the Challenge: ASGCA Design Excellence Award Winners
The ASGCA’s Design Excellence Recognition Program highlights some of the best recent examples of golf course architecture. By Design profiles this year’s honorees, including Fry/Straka designs at the Ambiente Course at Camelback Golf Club and Columbia Country Club.
Best New Courses 2013
Camelback's old Indian Bend Course, straddling a linear flood control channel, was embarrassingly flat and lifeless. No more. Straka lowered and naturalized the wash and used the fill to reshape every hole with such flair that Ambiente now overshadows the resort's Padre Course. Started as a Hurdzan/Fry project, now billed as a Fry/Straka design, Ambiente is probably the most improved course of the year.
Golf Course Acts as Classroom for Turf Research
The 100-year-old family business has transitioned to become the first research and demonstration golf course in the world.
Fry/Straka Global Golf Course Design: Two Course Openings in China
Fry/Straka Global Golf Course Design, a partnership with worldwide reach in award-winning golf-course design, has announced two new projects in China, both scheduled to open May 1. One golf course is located in Shanghai, while the other is in Anji, about a two-hour drive southwest of Shanghai.
Fry/Straka's China projects launched
Fry/Straka Global Golf Course Design has announced two new projects in China, both of which are scheduled to open 1 May.