The average quality of golf course has never been higher, and it keeps improving.
It’s not just because of the many intriguing new golf courses that come online each year, but because of hundreds of renovation projects that existing facilities undertake, too.
Even small upgrades – tweaks to bunker edges, positions and sizes, for example – can have a surprising impact. A couple of years ago, one of the courses in Vero Beach, Fla., where I live, drastically reduced the footprint of their bunkering. On the spectrum of types of renovation projects, it was modest but nonetheless important: a cleaner-looking, easier to maintain golf course that was able to preserve the integrity of its design…