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Pelosi's Obamacare logic would send Jefferson reeling
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Memorial Day madness: Yo-yo time for Wall Street
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Concert review: James Morrison (Video)
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Corruption fighter Patrick Fitzgerald resigns as U.S. Attorney in Chicago
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UAW and GM not protecting long-term temporary workers
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D.C. United to play Richmond Kickers in U.S. Open Cup
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It is a wonderful time to head to Lake County CA for wine (Part 2)
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Arizona Sheriff Arpaio uses taxpayers' money to send birther investigators to Hawaii
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It's just poop: Potty talk and potty training
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Be crystal for God
Richard Mandell
Richard Mandell has practiced the art and science of golf course architecture since 1992. His firm, Richard Mandell Golf Architecture, is located in Pinehurst, North Carolina.Richard’s work has been nationally recognized for his Creekside Golf & Country Club in Atlanta, Georgia with a nomination for Best New Course in both Golf Digest Magazine and Georgia Golf News. His expansion of Seaford Golf & Country Club won the 1996 DuPont North America Safety, Health, and Environmental Excellence Award. Blue Heron Golf Course, a public layout on the eastern shore of Maryland, was named one of the Top Ten Short Courses in America by Driving Range Magazine. He has restored Donald Ross’s last work at Raleigh Country Club and A. W. Tillinghast’s Erie Golf Club, among others. His renovation of Water’s Edge Country Club recently won the Golf Course Industry Builders Excellence Legacy Award for Renovation of the Year 2009 and was runner-up for GolfInc. Magazine’s 2009 Renovation of the Year Award as well.
Richard has written for national and international golf publications such Golf Course Architecture, Links: The Best of Golf, and Golf Illustrated to name a few. He has provided chapters in two books on Golf Architecture entitled Golf Architecture: A Worldwide Perspective (vols. 1 & 2). The chapters are Meaningful Selection and Placement of Hazards and The Evolution of Strategy. Richard also contributed a chapter to Favourite Holes by Design: The Architect’s Choice.
Richard Mandell's seminal work, Pinehurst ~ Home of American Golf (The Evolution of a Legend) won the prestigious International Network of Golf Book of the Year Award (2007). His book was a finalist for both Foreword Magazine's Book of the Year Award and the United States Golf Association's Herbert Warren Wind Book Award as well. Visit Richard Mandell Golf Architecture's website at www.golf-architecture.com to learn more about one of golf course architecture's rising stars.
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Liz Strauss: The future of social media
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Recent Entries by Richard Mandell
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Symposium On Affordable Golf
Published 9:52 p.m. November 2, 2011
The Symposium is a gathering of individuals who have a passion for golf and want to see the game thrive.
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U.S. Kids Golf: Did Earl caddy for Tiger Woods when he was 7?
Published 9:43 p.m. August 3, 2011
The U.S. Kids Golf Championships makes one wonder: is fostering such a competitive drive in young kids such a good thing?
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Are amateurs taking over the PGA Tour?
Published 4:52 p.m. July 25, 2011
It will be sooner than later before an amateur wins again on the PGA Tour—much sooner—as collegians light up the green.
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Tiger Woods: I told you so
Published 3:52 p.m. July 11, 2011
Tiger Woods recently paid a surprise visit at a military veterans golf event in Pennsylvania. Maybe the media can accept the fact that he might be a decent guy after all.
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Merion already prepping for 2013 U.S. Open
Published 2:25 p.m. July 1, 2011
Just a few miles up the road from Aronimink, an even better venue awaits the U. S. Open in 2013.
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Rory McIlroy's historic U. S. Open win not the most impressive
Published 1:48 p.m. June 20, 2011
The numbers speak for themselves: Tiger’s victory at Pebble Beach was more impressive a landmark win than McIlroy’s victory.
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Congressional U.S. Open finale to be full of drama
Published 5:08 p.m. June 14, 2011
Winning a tournament such as the U. S. Open often does not always identify the best golfer that week.
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Congressional members identify with U. S. Open
Published 3:09 p.m. June 6, 2011
Why would a country club give up the use of their golf course just to host the U. S. Open?
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China golf development: Boom or bubble?
Published 11:04 a.m. May 26, 2011
All of this seems strange when one realizes the Chinese government banned new golf course construction back in 2004.
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Heritage finds a sponsor?
Published 9:14 a.m. May 13, 2011
Richard Mandell Golf Architecture will become the official title sponsor of The Heritage starting in 2012.
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World rankings are overblown
Published 1:51 p.m. April 28, 2011
The king of the world rankings, Tiger Woods, certainly couldn’t care less how often he was the world’s top player.
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The real golfers have spoken
Published 10:05 a.m. April 22, 2011
If you're too lazy to walk 20 paces to play the golf hole from the correct angle, then play ping-pong.
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Augusta National: A theatre of the dramatic
Published 3:21 p.m. April 6, 2011
The old Berckman’s Fruitlands Nursery now possesses what may be the most dramatic venue for golf in the world.
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Dormie Club: A throwback golf course
Published 3:18 p.m. March 7, 2011
A great concept that needs a re-introduction in many other corners of the golfing world.
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Cinderella story
Published 4:15 p.m. February 17, 2011
On Sunday, Bill Murray and D.A. Points perpetrated the greatest upset in golf in nearly 100 years.
