August 4, 2016 By: Rod Morri – The host venue for the 2016 Australian Open is set to undergo an overhaul with Royal Sydney Golf Club confirming the appointment of Olympic golf course architect Gil Hanse to oversee changes to the […]

Press Release: Statement of Thanks from Hanse Golf Course Design to Everyone Who  Helped with the Rio 2016 Olympic Golf Course FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 3, 2016 CONTACT For press inquiries, please contact: [email protected] For photo inquiries, please contact: [email protected] For speaking […]

August 2, 2016 By: Adam Bronfin – After a 112-year absence, golf will make its triumphant return to the Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro later this week. Cornell alumnus Gil Hanse MLA ’89 was tapped to create this golf course of a lifetime, with […]

July 27, 2016 – How Gil Hanse went from a political science and history major to world famous golf course designer.  When the Rio Olympics get underway next week, all eyes will be on the thousands of athletes competing at one […]

July 29, 2016 By: Tom Fleischman –  When some of the world’s best golfers tee off next month in the 72-hole Olympic competition, they will be navigating fairways and greens imagined and designed by a pair of Cornellians. One of them, in […]

July 25, 2016 – The newly designed Olympic Golf Course at Reserva de Marapendi in Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil will host golf’s return to the Olympic Games after 112 years. Designed by architect Gil Hanse and partner Jim […]

July 22, 2016 By: Adam Lawrence – Golfers have waited a long time to see their favourite game played as a part of the world’s greatest sporting festival. In the second modern Games of 1900, men and women played in a golf […]

July 13, 2016: Sirius XM John Maginnes and Brian Katrek On Tap interview with Gil Hanse

June 23, 2016 By: Natalie Walker (SCOTLAND) – One is renowned for its colourful annual carnival, world class footballers and scantily-clad beauties on sun-drenched beaches, the other for its historic castles, rarely seen monster and midges. But now Rio and Inverness […]

(Summer 2016) JAPAN – View photos and full article (in Japanese) here. 1. How did the International Golf Federation inform you of your victory in the Rio 2016 Olympic golf course design contest, and how did you celebrate? We were at […]

(April 29, 2016) By: JIM FINNEGAN Malvern’s own Gil Hanse has stamped his international golf course design passport with another impressive entry: the 2016 Summer Olympics course in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Hanse has delivered a first-of-its-kind Olympic golf track, despite […]

(March 2016) By: Tom Cunneff Gil Hanse is sitting inside a bulldozer at Los Angeles Country Club where’s he’s been shaping new greens and bunkers this winter as part of a complete redesign of the South Course. Most architects as […]

(March 21, 2016) The Bryan family, founders of Old Waverly Golf Club and Mossy Oak, a leading outdoor lifestyle and conservation brand, announce that the new, premier golf destination known as Mossy Oak Golf Club in West Point, Mississippi, will […]