Links: A Preview Of 12 New Courses Likely To Open In 2021

After very few course openings in 2020, this year appears to have some intriguing projects likely to welcome golfers in some form. Erik Matuszewski surveys the globe and it’s very much an international list, including Tom Doak’s St. Patrick’s Links (County Donegal, Ireland), Gil Hanse’s Ballyshear Links (Bangkok, Thailand), Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw’s Brambles (Middletown, Calif.) and Greg Norman’s The Shark Club (Hollywood, Fla.) featuring a Seth Raynor influence…if you put one of his designs in a hot shirt press.

Another complete re-do, this real estate conversion project took the 180-acre footprint of the former course at the Diplomat Golf & Tennis Club and shrunk it to 120 acres for a “throwback design” that has a Seth Raynor influence with straight lines, geometric angles, and a host of raised greens. While there’s a lot of water, Greg Norman’s design team says this par-70 layout that’s just under 6,500 yards will be like nothing else in the South Florida market.

I can’t disagree based on that photo.