One of the main reasons why golfers play this maddening yet addictive game is to be outside in beautiful surroundings. So much of most peoples lives are spent in cities, offices and urban landscapes that it is crucial that a golf course can provide them with breathing space - a place to reload one's senses.
At IVGD, we believe that a golf course should provide more than a venue to play the game; it should be a place where one is happy and enjoys the natural surroundings and their beauty. It should be a place where you want to spend time, where you long to be when cooped up at home or in the office and where you can relax.
The great courses, and in detail all the famous holes and greens, are fascinating to the golfer by reason of their shape, their situation and the character of their modeling. When these elements obey the fundamental laws of balance, of harmony and fine proportions, they give rise to what we call beauty.
I have not the slightest hesitation in saying that beauty means a great deal on a golf course… there are few first rate holes which are not at the same time, either in the grandeur of their undulations and hazards, or the character of their surroundings, things of beauty themselves.
Dr. Alister MacKenzie “The Spirit of St.Andrews” 1932