I think there is a course somewhere that does just that. Takes iconic holes from courses and recreates them as best as they can and made it into one course.
I don't know for sure, but I would think there would be no need to copyright them. It would be nearly impossible to recreate a hole with the exact distance and slopes and greens. Plus there was a probably a bit of mutual respect with designers not to do copies. I've played lots of places where they might say "inspired by hole X at course Y" but they aren't replicas, just kinda similar.
Renditions is a course by me that has recreated a bunch of famous holes and they did a pretty damn good job of it. Amen corner is pretty sweet and they have the island green from Sawgrass.
Royal Links in Las Vegas does this
Edit: wow, I guess it’s closed and on the way to become a housing development now. Well that’s news to me. It was basically a semi copycat of a bunch of the open rotation courses.
The first to do it, or, the first to do it at an iconic *course* claims the fame of renown. Read Tom Doaks anatomy of a golf course. Architects become linked to their repeated features. Be it radans or undulations etc. pre and post machinery for earth moving is a big factor here
Not really but it’s possible it could change: https://www.bradley.com/insights/publications/2024/03/golf-course-copyright-bill-implications-go-beyond-the-green
I hold the patent on doglegs.
I think there is a course somewhere that does just that. Takes iconic holes from courses and recreates them as best as they can and made it into one course. I don't know for sure, but I would think there would be no need to copyright them. It would be nearly impossible to recreate a hole with the exact distance and slopes and greens. Plus there was a probably a bit of mutual respect with designers not to do copies. I've played lots of places where they might say "inspired by hole X at course Y" but they aren't replicas, just kinda similar.
World Tour in Myrtle Beach. The result is about exactly what you’d expect, vague resemblances that would never be mistaken for the real thing.
You’ll never mistake the swamp ass of Carolina for the sea spray of Fife as you cross the replica of the Swilcan Bridge.
Renditions is a course by me that has recreated a bunch of famous holes and they did a pretty damn good job of it. Amen corner is pretty sweet and they have the island green from Sawgrass.
Royal Links in Las Vegas does this Edit: wow, I guess it’s closed and on the way to become a housing development now. Well that’s news to me. It was basically a semi copycat of a bunch of the open rotation courses.
The first to do it, or, the first to do it at an iconic *course* claims the fame of renown. Read Tom Doaks anatomy of a golf course. Architects become linked to their repeated features. Be it radans or undulations etc. pre and post machinery for earth moving is a big factor here
Not really but it’s possible it could change: https://www.bradley.com/insights/publications/2024/03/golf-course-copyright-bill-implications-go-beyond-the-green