California Golf + Travel: The Grass is Always Greener at TPC Las Vegas
A true gem situated off the Las Vegas strip – just close enough to the action but far enough away to quiet escape the hustle and bustle – TPC Las Vegas, owned and operated by the PGA TOUR, is “desert elegance” on display. “Heralded by Golf Digest as one of the ‘Best Places to Play.’” […]
GolfPass: 22 notable golf course renovations to be unveiled in 2022
Golf course renovations and restorations continue to improve the average quality of golf course across the country and wider world. And with the game experiencing an impressive surge in interest over the past couple of years, these efforts will affect more golfers’ enjoyment of the game than ever before. Whether they amount to subtle touch-ups […]
Elevated Magazine: Grove XXIII – Michael Jordan – Bobby Weed Golf Design
Author Andrew Gegg details what went into designing and building The Grove XXIII for Michael Jordan in Elevated Magazine’s Summer 2021 Jetsetter Golf Issue. “Bobby Weed Golf Design continues to impress the world with jaw dropping golf course construction.” Read Full Article
Golf Digest: Why designing Michael Jordan’s golf course allowed its architect to be creative and bold
Every architect yearns to work on a great site, and almost all of them will tell you that good land is one of the top requirements for building a good golf course. Over the last 25 years, places like Bandon Dunes, Sand Valley and Barnbougle Dunes, in Tasmania—several of the most incredible sites to ever […]
LINKS: The Most Underrated Holes at Famous Courses
LINKS Magazine surveyed many of golf’s leading architects – Tom Doak, Gil Hanse, Rees Jones and Bobby Weed – to identify great holes that are wrongfully overlooked at five famous golf courses: Augusta National Golf Club Old Course at St. Andrews Pebble Beach Golf Links TPC Sawgrass, Stadium Course Pinehurst No. 2 “Long, six-foot-deep bunkers […]
The Masters: Reflecting On a Dream Realized
Defending Masters Tournament & FedEx Cup Champion, Dustin Johnson, describes how he learned to play golf at Weed Hill Driving Range. Bobby Weed, then a junior at Irmo High School, persuaded his father to let him convert a patch of his family’s land into a driving range so he would have a place to practice. “I […]
ESPN: From an old bean field to Augusta National
Golf course renovations and restorations continue to improve the average quality of golf course across the country and wider world. And with the game experiencing an impressive surge in interest over the past couple of years, these efforts will affect more golfers’ enjoyment of the game than ever before. Whether they amount to subtle touch-ups […]
GOLF Magazine: Why Michael Jordan’s Grove XXIII practice facility is one of the coolest spots in golf
Welcome to the future. If you want to be like Mike, beating balls the same old way just won’t suffice. Bobby Weed and Darren May give us an inside look at how they shaped the 16-acre range at The Grove XXIII. “Since opening last fall, Grove XXIII has become a go-to training ground for the […]
The Florida Times-Union: Bobby Weed will design first new course in this Florida region since 2004
Originally posted in Garry Smits’ Florida Times-Union story, a new golf course midway between Jacksonville and St. Augustine, Florida will be the area’s first new course opening in more than a decade and a half! “We’re pretty far along and the surprise is that the soil is much better than I initially thought,” said course […]
Morning Read: Keeping Bobby Jones’ word true
Bobby Weed Golf Design’s comprehensive restoration in 2020 of the Ocean Course at the Ponte Vedra Inn & Club was prominently featured in Morning Read: “Ponte Vedra Inn and Club’s Ocean Course was to have hosted the 1939 Ryder Cup; that’s how good it was. A recent renovation of the course, which opened in 1928, […]
