Tag: Gil Hanse

A conversation with Architect Gil Hanse continued

October 14, 2014 By
Gil Hanse, the architect hired to construct the 2016 Olympic course in Rio de Janeiro, sat down for a conversation with us not too long ago. Our September cover story, The Golden Touch: A conversation with Architect Gil Hanse, could ...

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Gil Hanse talks turf with Golfdom

September 30, 2014 By
Architect Gil Hanse chats with Seth Jones on Golfdom TV on a few various topics. To read the full Q&A with Hanse, be sure to check it out in our September issue. To view the video interview with Rio Olympic course ...

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The Golden Touch: A conversation with Architect Gil Hanse

September 24, 2014 By
It is graduation weekend, and Gil Hanse’s daughter Chelsea is graduating from Villanova’s School of Law. People are flying in at this very moment. But Hanse doesn’t seem rushed. Dressed in a pink golf shirt, the lanky architect (he’s 6’5” ...

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Grassing of the Olympic Golf Course in Rio underway

August 13, 2014 By
Green Grass Brazil began installing Zeon Zoysia grass and SeaDwarf Seashore paspalum on the Olympic Golf Course because just two years from now, in August 2016, golf will return as an Olympic sport for the first time in more than a century. Marcelo Matte, owner ...

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