Love on the rocks. 12th hole, Golf de Fontainebleau, near Paris, France. Designed by Tom Simpson. 📷: Will Watt @ivgd1.bsky.social @mikeclaytongolf.bsky.social

Our partner Frank Pont has been appointed to advise Sutton Coldfield GC in Birmingham, England. Originally laid out in the late 19th century, Alister MacKenzie was retained after WW1 to revitalise the course, the revised version finally opening in 1934. 📷: SCGC @ivgd1.bsky.social

Three years later, this clip still makes me smile... Setting the tiger tees at Seven Mile Beach the @mikeclaytongolf.bsky.social & DeVries way.

x.com/firmandfastg... Latest Firm and Fast podcast with guest Roderick Ritchie the Course Chairman at Utrechtse Golf Club'De Pan' @ivgd1.bsky.social @claytondevriespont.bsky.social

Frank at Calcot Park yesterday for a course walk with the committee. @ivgd1.bsky.social

Grassing is underway on Stage 2 of our Masterplan for Royal Perth in WA in partnership with KruseGolf. This phase includes 7 new greens and adjoining tees plus a large Himalayas putting green. All shaping by @lukasmichel.bsky.social with oversight from @mikeclaytongolf.bsky.social and Harley Kruse.

5th Hole, Les Pins Course Golf d'Hardelot, France Designed by Tom Simpson Restored by @ivgd1.bsky.social & Patrice Boissonnas

Following its renovation by @ivgd1.bsky.social 18 months ago, New Zealand's 18th green is looking much more like a 1930s version of itself. Current conditions = very firm and fast.

Hola (Utrechtse Golf Club De Pan)

Including one of Mike DeVries's creations... linksmagazine.com/7-golf-holes...

Still one of my favorite places in the world for a quiet evening round

"Perdu" The Addington, Surrey, England. A green abandoned almost a century ago. Now rebuilt by Mike DeVries. 📷: William Watt

"Of all the lists, this is the best" - @mikeclaytongolf.bsky.social golfclubatlas.com/147-custodia...

14th hole with the City of London behind. The Addington, Surrey, England. Designed by JF Abercromby & HS Colt. Restored by Messrs Clayton, DeVries & Pont. @mikeclaytongolf.bsky.social @ivgd1.bsky.social 📷: Will Watt

We are delighted to announce that we have been retained as consulting course architect by Berkhamsted Golf Club in Hertfordshire, England. @ivgd1.bsky.social will act as project manager. golfbusinessnews.com/news/courses...

9th hole with Woking on the horizon New Zealand GC, Surrey, England Designed by Tom Simpson Restored by @ivgd1.bsky.social 📷: William Watt

Mike DeVries's Greywalls Course at Marquette GC, Michigan. Voted this month in the US's top 50 public golf courses by Golf week magazine.

7th Hole a.k.a. "Volcano" Les Pins Course Golf d'Hardelot Cote d'Opale France Designed by Tom Simpson Restored by @ivgd1.bsky.social & Patrice Boissonnas

A spectacular morning at Spey Bay. Kudos to CM David Rumbles and his team - the playing surfaces have come on no end in the past year.

Frank and Hendrik presented our Draft Course Plan and proposed renovations to the practice facilities to Royal Dublin's members at a town hall event last night. @ivgd1.bsky.social @mikeclaytongolf.bsky.social

The 1984 Maekyung Open champion revisiting the tournament at Namseoul GC 41 years later. 📷: @ivgd1.bsky.social

The renovated par-3 2nd at Golf de Fontainebleau is bedding in well. Granite rocks are now exposed (again) in the carry and a Simpson-style "finger" bunker is in the run-off to the left of the green. 📷: Alex Villet, Chairman of Green

Frank Pont in Seoul with the great So Yeon Ryu. @claytondevriespont.bsky.social

Hendrik & Gonzalo on site at Real Pineda in Seville where our renovations continue. This week, we are reshaping the 16th and 18th green complexes.

Our partner Mike Clayton on the future of vegetation management on Melbourne's Sandbelt and the lessons that can be learnt by courses in other parts of the world... www.golfcoursearchitecture.net/content/the-...

www.golfcoursearchitecture.net/content/the-... The Melbourne Sandbelt. On the path forward post the restoration/renovation era beginning with Kingston Heath in the early 80s and Victoria in the mid 1990s.

Congratulations to our clients The Addington GC and Wallasey GC, the two largest risers in the new top100courses.com England rankings.

"The area in front of the 7th tee at Victoria GC is the finest example of heathland planting on the Sandbelt." - Mike Clayton 📷: @lukasmichel.bsky.social @mikeclaytongolf.bsky.social

Played all 18 at Seven Mile Beach yesterday with Goggy, Dave McKenzie and Steph Bunque. It’s getting there - The 13th - short 4. 14 Down the hill into the dunes. Par 3. And 3 - the long 5 swinging right across the top of the property. @claytondevriespont.bsky.social

Holes That Aren't Holes 1st tee to 18th green, Royal Cinque Ports, Deal. 215 yards. @mikeclaytongolf.bsky.social

@mikeclaytongolf.bsky.social's preview of this week's Masters... www.golf.org.au/clayton-on-t...

Congratulations to @ivgd1.bsky.social's reversible The Links Valley, voted the best 9-holer in The Netherlands for a sixth year in a row.

Aerial photos of Seven Mile Beach taken last week and exactly three years ago but a new digital survey of the course. We can't wait to share this place with the world. Not long now.

To commemorate us starting the first phase of work at Fontainebleau, here's Clayts talking about the place during our initial visit last spring.

The first phase of work is under way at Golf de Fontainebleau. Frank & Hendrik are overseeing the renovation of bunkers on 5 holes restoring Simpson's lacy edges. We shall be exposing more of the rocks that adorn the site and intend to regenerate more heather. @ivgd1.bsky.social

Last year, we began the rationalisation of the bunkering at Yering Meadows in Victoria in accordance with the plan devised in partnership with KruseGolf. Shaped by @lukasmichel.bsky.social, we are now starting to rebuild those that are to remain.

Golf de Fontainebleau: never ceases to amaze me

A stunning spring day at Royal West Norfolk, Brancaster. We said farewell again to James Furber, a dear friend who passed last year and whose ashes were scattered behind the 9th green in full view of the harbour. He would have loved such a day. RIP.

The first phase of our renovation works at Real Club Pineda de Sevilla began 15 days ago. Earth works are progressing well.

Delighted that The Addington's MD Ryan Noades was able to join Gonzalo for a spin around Puerta de Hierro last week.

www.golf.org.au/clayton-on-s... On the sandbelt, its vegetation and where the courses go next. @claytondevriespont.bsky.social

13th hole, Seven Mile Beach, Hobart, Tasmania. Photo: @mikeclaytongolf.bsky.social (Really) Getting there...

Flags. #2. 7Mile Beach. @mikedevries.bsky.social @claytondevriespont.bsky.social

Tom Simpson's "island" bunker at New Zealand GC, Surrey, England, as photographed by Australian journalist William Watt of Contours Golf during his trip to London last autumn. Sitting between the 7th and 13th greens, it was restored by Frank Pont and the team in 2020.

Dogs on the course - one of @mikeclaytongolf.bsky.social's "pet" subjects. Old friends @jjluff.bsky.social and his faithful hound sending him their regards from The Addington today.

Friendly - and not so friendly - at St Andrews Beach.