John Paul Newport reports on the Canadian Tour ball study reported exclusively here.

Talkingolf.com's Rod Morri interviewed me this week about the 2010 majors and in particular, the architecture and setups we saw. It's a long one...you were warned. But Rod knows his stuff and asks some great questions.

Brooks at the widely read and respected SportsByBrooks.com gives a nice shout out to this site in his post on the "Bloggers Who Are Reinventing Sports Media."

Derek Lawrenson of The Daily Mail played Rustic Canyon recently and offered this review:

Are we agreed that playing golf in America is, on the whole, overpriced, overcrowded and overrated? Let me describe an experience at a course called Rustic Canyon just north of Los Angeles that conclusively demonstrates it doesn't have to be this way.

Here was a revelatory little gem where there was no clubhouse the size of a mansion, and no bag drop for people too lazy to walk from the car park.

There were no water hazards, no fairways lined with unimaginative swathes of rough, and no greens surrounded by bunkers, thus allowing you to play the ball along the ground, should you choose, rather than being forced to play target golf.

In short, all the principles that makes links golf the biggest thrill in the game have been applied by designer Geoff Shackelford, including greens next to tees which meant - shock, horror! - you could even walk rather than take a buggy.

Best of all, it cost £20 to play, and was in magnificent condition.

Golf as it should be.

At the 2008 Pepperdine Men's Golf Fundraiser Geoff moderated a discussion between Ryder Cup asst. Captain's Olin Browne and Dave Stockton. 

(Photo courtesy of Paul Lester.)

 

Chip Gaskins at GolfCourseClassics.com interviews Geoff about a variety of topics.

Geoff spoke with Danielle Tucker for her Golf Club Radio Show on Saturday. Topics include Torrey Pines, slow play, and the other usual suspects.

Andrew Brown of the intriguing golf site Oobgolf.com asked me a few questions. And I answered them.

Lorne Rubenstein quotes Geoff extensively in a Globe and Mail column about the lack of golf architecture discussion to be found on network telecasts.

 

Geoff's interview with the design master has generated plenty of attention, including from the R&A secretary Peter Dawson in a recent exchange with John Huggan.

Thomas Dunne profiles Rustic Canyon and Geoff in the October Travel and Leisure Golf.

Geoff's next design collaboration with Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner has been announced. Check out the Querencia page here.

Geoff spoke on the art of golf course restoration at Golf Digest's annual gathering of course raters on October 26th, 2007 at Pinehurst Resort.

 

 

 

I will be signing Lines of Charm plus copies of other recent books in the bookstore from 1:30 to 3 on February 22, 2006.

More information is available here. 

Hope to see you at the Show!

No. 17 (click to enlarge)Golf Magazine's Top 100 public access courses list and story by Joe Passov is now posted. Rustic Canyon landed at #83.

Yours truly appears on segments 3 and 4 Sirius Radio's Golfchix August 27, 2005 radio show with Susan Hunt and Linda Giaciolli (Amy Alcott was off this week).

You can listen to the show by heading here and hitting the "This Week's Show" link on the left. The Golf Channel's Rich Lerner appears in the first two segments.

Geoff is named again by The Golfer magazine as one of modern golf's ten most influential writers. They write:

"The finest writers are modern day alchemists magically transforming the sensory static of a blank page to allow us to experience the immediacy of sport from a world away--to smell the sweet azaleas and fragrant pine, feel the sponginess of the grass on a walk up the final fairway and hear the buzz of the crowd crescendo to an ear-splitting toar as the winning putt drops from our view." 

And here's the list:

Michael Bamberger
James Dodson
John Feinstein
James Finegan
Mark Frost
Dan Jenkins
David Owen
Lorne Rubenstein
Geoff Shackelford
John Updike

The first review of Lines of Charm, by holebyhole.com.

On November 20th, Geoff appeared on Peter Kessler' Pure Golf, found at XM Radio Channel 146.