WRITTEN ON Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 BY Tim AND STORED IN Andrew Goosen, Our projects, Tim Lobb

Tim and Andrew visited The Richmond Golf Club for a design meeting today (June 30, 2010). The pilot hole bunkers on hole 11 are well grown in now and looking fantastic.
Well done to Les Howkins, Jaey Goodchild and all the groundstaff at The Club for their committment to fulfilling the design philosophy of these bunkers.
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WRITTEN ON Monday, May 31st, 2010 BY Tim AND STORED IN Our projects, Tim Lobb, Travels

Tim Lobb visited El Ein Bay, May 24-27 to inspect holes 2 – 5 for grassing preparation and grow-in. Also we spent alot of time discussing landscape planting palette and density. We try to be very flexible in this approach and consider what is locally available and thriving in this harsh environment.
El Ein Bay is [...]

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WRITTEN ON Thursday, May 13th, 2010 BY Tim AND STORED IN Andrew Goosen, Our projects, Tim Lobb

Andrew Goosen and Tim Lobb visited The Richmond Golf Club today (May 13, 2010) to update the Club on our design progress and review the bunkers built on the pilot hole, number 11. The pilot hole bunkers were built Spring 2009. Please see below.
We have used the Sportcrete product in the construction of these pilot hole [...]

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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, May 12th, 2010 BY Tim AND STORED IN Our projects, Top Courses, Travels

 
 
PRESS RELEASE
 
Challenge Tour impressed with TPL’s Carya course
Players describe heathland course as ‘probably the best we’ll play all year’
 
(London, United Kingdom – May 06, 2010) European Challenge Tour players and representatives have lavished praise on Carya Golf Club, designed by Thomson Perrett & Lobb, the golf course design practice founded by five-times Open Champion [...]

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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, May 12th, 2010 BY Tim AND STORED IN Our projects, Travels

In the past weeks our heathland inspired course in Belek - Turkey, Carya Golf Club hosted a European Challenge Tour event.
Please click on link below to view coverage as seen from the European Tour website.
http://www.europeantour.com/challengetour/season=2010/tournamentid=2010726/videoaudio/videoid=121165.html

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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, April 14th, 2010 BY Tim AND STORED IN Our projects, Tim Lobb, Top Courses

Thomson Perrett & Lobb has been appointed to consult on and oversee important design work on two historic courses close to London – The Berkshire Golf Club, one of the UK’s Top 100 Courses.

The Berkshire, which features two of the finest, traditional heathland golf courses, with 69 bunkers in total, has appointed TPL to analyse [...]

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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, April 14th, 2010 BY Tim AND STORED IN Golf News, Our projects, Tim Lobb

 
Our new 18 hole golf course in Dubai called Dubai Golf City was featured in a 2 page spread in the April, 2010 issue of Worldwide Golf.
 
 
 
Please see below scan of article.
 
 
 
 
 

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WRITTEN ON Friday, April 2nd, 2010 BY Tim AND STORED IN Our projects, Top Courses

Our new heathland inspired golf course in Belek, Turkey called Carya Golf Club opened in November 2008.
From our first visit to site it was our design intent to create a traditional heathland inspired golf course. Five years on from that initial site visit to walk the site it is pleasing to see our design intent [...]

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WRITTEN ON Thursday, March 18th, 2010 BY Tim AND STORED IN Our projects, Peter Thomson, Ross Perrett, Tim Lobb, Travels

March 17, 2010
Our electronic newsletter was distributed with news of our current projects.
Please click on below link for review.
 
http://www.tpl.eu.com/news-11.php
 
If you would like to subscribe please email us at info@tpl.eu.com

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WRITTEN ON Friday, March 5th, 2010 BY Tim AND STORED IN Our projects, Tim Lobb, Travels

Tim Lobb reports on the TPL site visit to El Ein Bay on The Red Sea in Egypt where TPL are currently building an 18 hole resort style golf course.
Construction progress has been steady over the last year on the resort style golf course that we have designed and are now building at El Ein [...]

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