A six-time major champion’s prediction of a 12-hole professional tournament within seven years exposes the quiet crisis confronting traditional course architecture.
Golf has treated the number eighteen with apostolic reverence ever since the Royal and Ancient standardized the loop in the mid-nineteenth century.
The premise behind a compressed competitive loop is as brutally pragmatic as it is culturally provocative.
Architects and strategic planners have grappled with this tension in private for years.
A six-time major champion’s prediction of a 12-hole professional tournament within seven years exposes the quiet crisis confronting traditional course architecture.