20 Over the past three years, more golf courses have been built in Florida than any other state, according to recent data from the National Golf Foundation. With 28 openings, and another 23 in progress, there is unquestionably a boom in golf in the Sunshine State. A large share of this wave of development is happening in Martin County, where more than 10 golf course architects have recently completed, or are actively working on, brand new golf courses. Three of those are now open at Apogee Club in Hobe Sound; the first by Gil Hanse, ASGCA, and Jim Wagner, and the latest a debut US newbuild for Kyle Phillips, ASGCA. Phillips established his design business in 1997, following 16 years working for ASGCA Past President Robert Trent Jones, Jr. While he has worked extensively in the United States, both for Jones and under his own banner, he is perhaps better known for his original golf course designs in other parts of the world When Kingsbarns, located near St Andrews in Scotland, opened in 2000, it quickly became regarded as one of the best courses in the United Kingdom, and has A new golf course by Kyle Phillips, ASGCA, has opened at Apogee Club in Martin County. CASE STUDY Catching a wave in Florida Looking back over the par-three seventeenth, where a large dune obscures the back-left portion of the green
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