Miscellaneous Updates From The Design World

On Monday's Morning Drive we did a run through of some big-name design projects. Segment one is here talking about Tiger and Jack, segment two gets into The Donald at Turnberry, Philly Cricket Club and a reminder to see Mid-Pines.

Here is a rundown of topics covered and not covered due to time.

Rex Hoggard with the news on water in Rio flowing to the site. Hopefully, with none of the sewage and trash that the New York Times revealed has made the windsurfing and sailing courses places you don't want to get wet.

Ty Votaw reaffirmed earlier reports from the IGF's Peter Dawson that a test event a year out from the Olympics wasn't looking possible based on the state of things.

If nothing else, Team Tiger's clever marketing of the El Cardonal course at Cabo's Diamante speaks to lesson's learned from other false-starts in Dubai and North Carolina, fairly normal stuff in golf course design circles. Especially with a market collapse thrown in. The Tweeted or Instagrammed teaser photo from this week.

As previously noted here, Jack Nicklaus has a stunning looking course in Cabo as well. Here is a GolfCourseArchitecture.net story with a few more details on Quivira.

If there was ever any doubt about the healthy of the economy…Fred Funk has landed his first "signature" design job in Colorado. RainDance National is the name of the project according to Golf Course Architecture. Of course it is.

Philadelphia Cricket Club's 1922 A.W. Tillinghast course re-opens this week after a Keith Foster restoration. Foster also did a restoration at Colonial, host to the tour this week. Here's GolfClubAtlas discussion on the reopening.

The course hosts next year's PGA Club Pro as a possible audition for a major. You can see some before-after images here, though things are pretty raw and I'm waiting for more views as superintendent Dan Meersman gets things going with some decent growing weather.