WRITTEN ON Thursday, March 11th, 2010 BY Tim AND STORED IN Golf News, Peter Thomson, Ross Perrett, Tim Lobb, Travels
Tim Lobb and Ross Perrett look forward to attending this exciting upcoming event. Please read below for details. World Forum of Golf Architects, St Andrews 2010 Golf Course Architecture for the 21st Century – Challenges and Opportunities. With just over two weeks to go many golf course architects are already looking forward to the [...]
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, February 28th, 2010 BY Tim AND STORED IN Golf News, Peter Thomson
News from our Melbourne office – Thomson Perrett. Victoria Golf Club (Melbourne, Australia) honoured its most famous member by unveiling a bronze statue of five-times British Open champion Peter Thomson AO, CBE . Thomson’s five British Open wins between 1954 and 1965 rank him second to Harry Vardon who won the title six [...]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 BY Tim AND STORED IN Our projects, Peter Thomson, Philosophy, Press Releases, Tim Lobb, Top Courses, Travels
Tim Lobb reports on his travels to Malaysia and Australia during February 2010. In these times of glossy magazines and seductive/ touched up photos of exotic golf courses it got me wondering – has golf lost its ‘fit for purpose’ importance. Is the golf industry really creating golf courses that fit into each and every [...]
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WRITTEN ON Saturday, December 5th, 2009 BY Tim AND STORED IN Peter Thomson, Philosophy
BOBBY LOCKE was a fabulous character, his life a fable. I met his aged mother and father and had Christmas dinner with them in 1952. He had his 21st birthday in New Zealand in 1938, so he was a lot older than me. He spent four years flying with the South African Air Force during [...]
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WRITTEN ON Monday, November 9th, 2009 BY Tim AND STORED IN Peter Thomson, Top Courses
A racing of the heart Golf Digest, July 1984 No-one who enjoys a game of golf could tee off at St Andrews on that first tee at the foot of the steps from the house without a racing of the heart. When I first looked out in September of 1954 it seemed like heaven. All [...]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, October 30th, 2009 BY Tim AND STORED IN Peter Thomson, Philosophy
Article written by Peter Thomson, The Herald Newspaper, Melbourne, 1964 I saw Gary Player for the first time in January 1956, while I was on an exhibition tour of South Africa. He was included in a match with Bobby Locke and myself at a club in Johannesburg. Locke bade me pay close attention to Player [...]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, October 23rd, 2009 BY Tim AND STORED IN Peter Thomson, Ross Perrett, Travels
Peter Thomson and Ross Perrett will both be speakers at the upcoming Asia Pacific Golf Summit in Kuala Lumpur , October 26 -28th. Make sure you say hello if you are in attendance. Have a great conference to speakers, delegates and organisers.
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, October 18th, 2009 BY Tim AND STORED IN Peter Thomson, Ross Perrett, Tim Lobb, Uncategorized
Tim Lobb reports on Thomson Perrett & Lobb’s 5th Birthday: 18th October 2009 represents five years since Thomson Perrett & Lobb became an operating UK Based Golf Course Design practice. So happy birthday to us. Peter Thomson, our Chairman, formed the founding design practice in Melbourne, Australia in 1964 and subsequently opened offices in Beijing, Singapore [...]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 BY TPL AND STORED IN Peter Thomson
It was Peter Thomson’s 80th birthday yesterday, Sunday August 23rd, and Peter celebrated with family and friends in Melbourne. We have received many messages and birthday greetings from around the world, wishing Peter well on his special day. Here are just a few of the tributes… Jack Nicklaus “Peter Thomson has been a great ambassador [...]
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