Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Global Golf

 
Oak Bay Golf & Country Club (Ontario, Canada)
On the eastern shore of Georgian Bay, Canadian golf course architect Shawn Watters, one of the country’s most respected, has created a picturesque but sturdy course: this just-opened, 6,503-yard track in the town of Honey Harbour, Ontario. With islands in the distance, water woodlands, granite outcroppings, and native shrubbery, the Oak Bay course offers a naturally challenging setting. Featuring large green complexes and unbounded lakeland, the par 72, including the par-3, 170-yard all-carry 15th hole, presents a fair but rigorous test to the most seasoned of golfers. - by Farhad Heydari, Ralph Lauren Magazine

This piece is from the Spring 2012 edition of Ralph Lauren Magazine. It was featured as part of Farhad Heydari's article, Global Golf. To read it online, click here.

The Year's New Golf Courses

Shawn P. Watters and Associates appeared in the December 2011 edition of Golf Digest Magazine, one of the golf industry's premier publications. In addition to the magazine piece, the firm was also made mention of in a Golf Digest online slideshow chronicling The Year's New Golf Courses

Oak Bay seen featured in a screenshot from Golf Digest's online slideshow

Oak Bay Golf & Country Club

"Canadian architect Shawn Watters relied more on rocks, pines and water as hazards at Oak Bay Golf & Country Club in Honey Harbour, Ontario, producing the year's most awesome new par 3, the 170-yard 15th over a lake cove to a green atop a granite outcropping." - by Ron Whitten, Golf Digest Magazine

This piece was featured in the December 2011 edition of Golf Digest Magazine. To read online, click here.

Back for the Season

After a lengthy winter, the gears at Shawn P. Watters and Associates have been set in motion to prepare for our busiest season of the year - summer. We invite you to join us by way of this blog to stay up to date on the exciting developments taking place inside of our office. Over the next couple of months, we will be posting on our projects which are currently in production, our developments on the horizon, publications that we have been featured in throughout the past year and our take on the golf course/landscape architecture industry. Have a suggestion on something we should write about? Comment on this post and we will make sure to reply. If you are looking for insight into the world of golf course and landscape architecture, look no further. For the next 5 months, it will come by way of this blog.