Announcing Curracloe Links: Ireland’s next great golf course
The world’s next great seaside links is coming to Ireland. Curracloe Links, located adjacent to the white sands of Curracloe Beach, is designed by the renowned team of Dana Fry and Jason Straka and developed by the Neville Hotel Group. Ground breaking for the new golf links takes place in February, with an expected opening in 2026. The golf course is in the same location as Neville Hotels’ newest property, Ravenport Resort.
Union League National Golf Club
Ask any golfer what their idea of the perfect golf course would be. Most would say some combination of perhaps the two most iconic courses, and most regarded, in America: Pine Valley and Augusta National. If you can imagine that, then you are imagining Union League National Golf Club. The Union League of Philadelphia, which owns Union League National, was founded in 1862 to support President Abraham Lincoln and The Union in the United States’ Civil War.
Fry/Straka and Paul Azinger to design new course in southwest Florida
Golf architecture firm Fry/Straka has partnered with former PGA Tour player and Ryder Cup captain Paul Azinger on the design of an eighteen-hole course for the new Miakka Golf Club in Myakka City, Florida.
Staying the Course with Dana Fry
Who is Dana Fry you ask? A quick google search conjures entries that read like the curriculum vitae of a very accomplished man. We meet for lunch on the clubhouse patio at Naples National Golf Club on a picture-perfect day. After talking for two and a half hours, I conclude that the first entry that answers my query proves to be a fitting description of the affable gentleman: “Fry is one of the most creative and successful golf course architects in the world.”
Fry/Straka studies classics for renovation at Valencia
The private course, located north of Los Angeles, was originally designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr and opened in 1965. The purpose of this year’s project, led by Jason Straka, was to restore Jones’s original design intent and classic features and enhance strategic options, while turf replacement, on all areas except greens, has reduced irrigation needs by 30 percent.
Donald Ross uncovered: Jason Straka finds original Belleair CC layout in the Florida ground and in the history books
Architect Jason Straka in June was midway through a major face-lift of Belleair Country Club’s West Course, with a reopening slated for November. In order to save the original Donald Ross layout, which the private club says is the oldest continually operating course in Florida, Straka first was tasked with erasing decades’ worth of alterations that dampened the intent of the original design, often burying Ross’s sublime work beneath good intentions.
Nothing like it
The Hickory Course at Hamilton Farm Golf Club blends a big challenge and significant par-3 footprint with high-level maintenance.
Architects pledge commitment to climate action
The three largest societies of golf course architects have jointly pledged to strengthen their commitment to climate action, within a wider framework of sustainable development as set out in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Fry/Straka restores Ross design on Belleair’s West course
Fry/Straka Global Golf Course Design is progressing with a restoration of the Donald Ross-designed West course at Florida’s Belleair Country Club, which celebrates its 125th anniversary this year.
Fry/Straka to renovate Cabo Del Sol’s Desert course
Cabo Del Sol, a resort community in Los Cabos, Mexico, has appointed Fry/Straka Global Golf Course Design to carry out a $15 million renovation of its Desert course, a Tom Weiskopf design from 2001.
Fry/Straka going big at Union League National
Any discussion of Union League National begins with The Big Fill, a large-scale earthmoving effort — more than 1.6 million cubic yards in scope — that Fry/Straka created at the center of the 268-acre parcel. It rises to 78 feet above sea level, 56 feet above the original grade. However, its tendrils spread out hundreds of yards in half a dozen directions. The man-made ridgelines slowly but elegantly taper down, only to rise again and form new, smaller plateaus, from which other distinct ridge networks splinter off into the landscape.
On Course: Four Architects You'll Be Hearing More About
In a new monthly column, Morning Read's Joe Passov identifies Jeff Danner, Agustin Piza, Jason Straka and Richard Mandell as course designers to put on your radar in 2022, plus other news and reviews.
22 notable golf course renovations to be unveiled in 2022
Creative approaches to golf course remodeling and authentic restoration efforts continue apace.
Interview with Jason A. Straka
Principal, Fry/Straka Global Golf Course Design, President, American Society of Golf Course Architects
Golf is in a Good Place!
Shortly after he took over the reigns of the ASGCA, ASIAN GOLF had a sit-down session with Straka which covered a wide range of topics on the future pathway for golf.
Fry/Straka opening nine in Abu Dhabi
Yas Acres complements Yas Links and marks what could be a decade of development in the Middle East.
The World-Class Golf Course Where Greenskeepers Go to Sample New Products
The Experience at Farmlinks is a destination course like no other
Play a Round
The Eco-Friendly Golf Course Designed to be Both Beautiful and Sustainable [Ambiente Course at Camelback Resort].
Going bunkers: 4 courses with bunker success stories
Stuck in the middle of a bunker renovation, the Kenwood CC crew found a product they could install themselves.
Done with a (Bill) Diddel-inspired renovation
Thirty-six-hole Kenwood Country Club in Cincinnati has planned a June 2021 grand reopening for its Kendale Course, a Golden Age layout where Ohio-based Fry/Straka Global Golf Course Design has completed a comprehensive $5 million renovation.