🇮🇸 Wow what a week in Iceland for our EIGCA ⛳️ Annual Meeting. We had a blast all thanks to the courses, venues, Edwin Roald + EIGCA staff. We wish Julia Green a very happy retirement after 22 years of amazing service and welcome Lindsey as new EO. Thanks from Tim L, Alex + Oliver.

The original copy of the joint climate pledge from the EIGCA ⛳️, ASGCA Home Offices and Society of Australian Golf Course Architects, will be safeguarded in the #carbonpar office in Reykjavik, hosted by Golfsamband Íslands. Here, EIGCA's new Lindsey Collumbell and Edwin Roald, Carbon Par project manager and EIGCA member. GEO Foundation for Sustainable Golf

Canada welcomed me and my family & gave us the opportunity for a better life. it enabled me to live my dreams. It’s a great honour to play for Canada and I want to give back, so I’ve decided that I will donate this years World Cup earnings to charity.

This is a really great SCOREGolf course review of the golf at Waterton Lakes. Congrats to Guy Nicholson for the writing, and to the team their for all the hard work, particularly Nicholas Plantje scoregolf.com/course-review/…

🇨🇦The turn around at Waterton Lakes GC (Alberta, Canada) in just 2 seasons has been incredible under watchful eye of Nicholas Plantje & Lakeland team. The course has a great future & we are thrilled to be part of it. Must visit & pure golf experience. Alex Hay Oliver Tubb 👍🏻

Chilliwack set for change following approval for redesign golfcoursearchitecture.net/content/chilli…

🇬🇧First site visit of the day to Woking Golf Club to review the continued heathland restoration project - this year on holes 1 & 3. Kudos to CM andy ewence and team. A club taking their stewardship of this precious environment/ landscape seriously. Proud to be involved. Bravo. Tim L

You're starting from scratch to build a new golf course/golf club. What element (s) are a priority to you to make it the ideal place to enjoy the game? We're talking about this on the Flagstick Podcast this week and would love to hear some opinions. (Reply below) 👇

Think like an owner, says Member Jeffrey Danner, PLA, ASGCA, EIGCA, ASLA. A golf course architect is critical to the success of any golf course project. We are responsible for creating an aesthetically pleasing, strategic, functional project conducive to return on investment (ROI) buff.ly/42DPCBF

Once upon a time, the more trees on a golf course, the more highly thought the facility was. However, as Rick Young writes, the trend of overvaluing trees on golf courses has tilted the other way across North America. scoregolf.com/opinion/rick-y…

ASGCA Home Offices and GCSAA team up for a valuable look at how Turfgrass Reduction can make a course more sustainable, save money, improve he environment & bring strategy back into play. tinyurl.com/ybv69b92

Never flinched. “I’m definitely the proudest coach in the whole world right now.” #GoGators | JC Deacon

Looking forward to some tournament golf in #Ontario upcoming, figured I better hit at least a bucket before going. #SeymourCreek #NorthVan

I’m off to Lookout Point CC today for the first-ever Beyond The Contour Podcast event, which has Jeff Mingay & Lorne Rubenstein speaking for a fireside chat with competitors later today. But first, 36 holes over Walter J. Travis’ magnificent course. Can’t wait! beyondthecontour.com/the-secret-sau…

Excited to spend the next week in #Ontario. Will cover a few miles visiting and playing golf. Stops in #Belleville, #Toronto and #Muskokas with six games in total, four rounds at Bigwin Island for the PGA of Canada National Championship. Photo by Beyond The Contour Podcast

Just at the beginning stages of our work Interlachen Country Club but the energy and support for this restoration is off the charts. So thrilled to be a part of it! Great people ✔️ Unbelievable history ✔️ Amazing ground for golf ✔️ youtube.com/watch?v=AorEu1…

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That is the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen!!!! Congrats Nick Taylor! 20 years ago Mike Weir inspired a bunch of Canadians like Nick to pursue their dream, and now Nick has done the same. What a moment for Canadian golf! 🇨🇦

HOLY SHIT - 72 FEET FOR THE WIN!! What a moment in Canadian sports. Could not be happier for my boy, my boss Nick Taylor 👊🏼❤️ RBC Canadian Open CHAMPION!! Thanks to fam, friends & fans for the support #gratitude #golfisgood 🇨🇦🇨🇦

A first step toward (hopefully) restoring (all of) A.V. Macan’s thoughtful design RichmondCountryClub 👌