One major mistake often made is to design courses that are too hard for the average player in a quest to make them tiger proof. This is totally unnecessary. It is simple to make a course challenging for the best players whilst still very playable for the rest. The key element is to provide the bogey player with width, ensuring that a way to avoid those hazards that challenge the scratch golfer exists.
At IVGD, we are proud to create golf courses that can hold tour events without the need for much change, and at the same time still allow the youngest and oldest members to have an enjoyable afternoon on the links without losing vast quantities of balls and strokes.
The course should be so arranged that the long handicap player should be able to to enjoy his round in spite of the fact that he is piling up a big score. In other words the beginner should not be continually harassed by losing strokes from playing out of sand bunkers. The layout should be so arranged that he loses strokes because he is making wide detours to avoid hazards
Dr. Alister MacKenzie “The Spirit of St.Andrews” 1932