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Have you ever considered the importance of a golf course’s routing in creating enjoyable, interesting golf?

The best routings have the knack of embracing and then enhancing the existing land features and all seem to have an abundance of variety.

Golden Age course architect Charles Banks was a great believer in the routing of a course being of the utmost importance. He once wrote: “Playing a round a golf course is not merely a question of getting around, like travelling over a racecourse or walking around the block. Its rather a question of taking nine or eighteen separate and distinct little journeys, each of which presents its own distinct pictures and its own distinct problems as part of the grand tour.”

So, routing is important and one of the best in the business at

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