Thomas Dunne

The 2015 Presidents Cup, contested at the Jack Nicklaus Golf Club Korea, in Incheon, was one of last year’s more underrated sporting events.

Michlifen Golf Club By: Thomas Dunne, Special to Golfweek | July 2, 2019 6:00 am RABAT, Morocco — When it comes to beehives of competitive golf, for one week each spring not many places can match Royal Golf Dar Es Salam. The 45-hole facility in the capital Rabat hosts full-field events on both the European Tour and the Ladies’ European Tour — not to mention a kids’ tournament — all at once.

Perhaps the most wide-ranging discussion in golf architecture in recent years centers around the various grassroots efforts at developing 21st-century models for community-oriented golf. Not that far behind has been a renewed interest in the potential of reversible routings – a concept as old as the Old Course at St. Andrews itself, but one that in practice was mostly moribund until 2016, when Tom Doak unveiled The Loop at Forest Dunes in northern Michigan.