If you follow the world of golf course construction, renovation and new course development, you get bombarded with stories about big budgets and transformative projects.

Magazines and websites like Golf Magazine, The Golfer’s Journal and others are always featuring stories of courses being created from nothing in a desert (Shadow Creek) or in the wilds of Nebraska (Sandhills), or among the dunes and cliffs of dramatic, harsh shorelines (Cabot Links, Cabot Cliffs).

It’s quite literally the golf version of keeping up with the Joneses. If we spend more we can build anything. And then there’s all the tales of well-funded private courses that tear out all of their greens and rebuild them from scratch using the latest and greatest agronomy technology.

At the other end of the spectrum are the trials and tribulations of the more modest clubs we have, where population, market conditions, and a........

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