The Golf Courses of Javier Arana

The Golf Courses of Javier Arana

by Alfonso Erhardt Ybarra
Turner Press, 2013

My friend Alfonso Erhardt grew up on the beautiful Neguri course in northern Spain, a Javier Arana design, and his love for it prompted this biography of Arana’s life and his courses.  Arana partnered for a time with the English designer Tom Simpson and became Spain’s preeminent golf course designer, though he only designed a relative handful of golf courses in the country under the Franco regime.

Read the excerpt.