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9 months

I’ve paid some crazy green fees in my time, but £31 for Dunstanburgh Castle is absolutely mind boggling. Spectacular scenery combined with a genuinely intriguing test of golf. Absolutely terrific day.

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A morphing 3D model animation showing the difference between Augusta National’s 15th hole in 1934 and the present day. . @TheMasters #TheMasters

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1 year

Hoylake's internal out of bounds? Fixed it 😜

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1 year

A morphing evolution of Augusta's 7th hole. I might make some more of these in the run-up to this year's tournament.

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4 years

@TheMasters 85-year evolution of the 5th hole

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2 years

A 10cm contour study of one of golf’s most intriguing targets.

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9 months

What a gorgeous course Bamburgh Castle is. Springy headland turf, exposed rock, half-par holes everywhere, and loads of charming quirk. And the views are extraordinary!

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2 years

One of the most labour intensive pieces I’ve ever made, and one I’m extremely proud of 👊

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@joemmcdonne11

4 years

Augusta National yardage charts from 1932 The 13th My favourite Masters hole 🔥 #TheMasters

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@joemmcdonne11

5 months

My old man died yesterday. I'll never forget his long, smooth swing, and his hot Irish temper. He was a good golfer and a decent bloke. He'll be greatly missed 💔

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@joemmcdonne11

7 months

A swirling tour of the routing of The Old Course, St Andrews.

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@joemmcdonne11

4 years

Augusta National • 1933 • plus today's hole numberings, which hopefully help with orientation

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@joemmcdonne11

3 years

85 years in the life of a famous hole. Which version is your favourite? . @TheMasters

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2 years

Truly one of golf’s most excellent holes ⭐️

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@joemmcdonne11

7 months

A fabulous, frosty Hoylake sunrise.

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@joemmcdonne11

2 years

Dornoch sits comfortably among the world’s greatest courses. Some would say it’s practically flawless. I’d be inclined to agree. Such a special place 💚 . @RoyalDornochGC @sd_cooper

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@joemmcdonne11

3 years

Fiercely proud of this WaterMap of The Old Course. With land as beautiful and as hallowed as this, it was essential to capture the rumples and quirks in all their glory

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@joemmcdonne11

3 years

A highly illegal pic taken from the balcony of probably the most impressive club I've ever visited.

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@joemmcdonne11

1 year

Some friends and I were discussing whether we'll see many players in this year's Open Championship hitting drives over the Out of Bounds, on an almost direct line for the green. What do you think?

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@joemmcdonne11

2 years

Golf in the Scottish Highlands. Sun, wind, rain, hail, snow. Marvellous.

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@joemmcdonne11

1 year

I’m hugely excited about joining CDP – a firm whose work and ethos I admire greatly.

Clayton, DeVries & Pont

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1 year

We are delighted to announce that Joe McDonnell is joining CDP as our Head of Imagery. A renowned expert in terrain modelling, and 3D art and animations, he will be supporting all 5 of our offices.

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@joemmcdonne11

8 months

An afternoon for the ages. Mega light over the course on the hill.

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@joemmcdonne11

3 years

Long shadows over the first tee. Always love seeing the contrast between the two halves of the shared fairway.

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@joemmcdonne11

10 months

A high precision scale model of the 6th hole at Royal St George’s, 3D printed with sandstone in full colour.

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@joemmcdonne11

2 years

A reminder of where the high water mark used to be before The Bruce Embankment and first fairway were constructed. What a wild looking start to a round at The Old Course 🤯

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@joemmcdonne11

3 years

A lesson in how to use a dune ridge for a golf course, by Harry Colt and Rye Golf Club.

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@joemmcdonne11

9 months

Goswick is every bit as good as advertised, with exquisitely contoured green sites featuring ramps, backboards, chutes and humps. The bunkers are well placed and the routing offers consistent peaks and plateaus – literally and figuratively. A cracking golf course.

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@joemmcdonne11

2 years

A rapid aerial look at my National Golf Links 3D painted model ☀️

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@joemmcdonne11

8 months

My favourite non-golf related photo of the last few years. On the journey from Dornoch to Durness. The Scottish highlands are jam-packed with vistas that make your whole body tingle.

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joemcd_golf

@joemmcdonne11

4 years

We’re really happy with how the Old Course prints have turned out! The Evalu18 shop will go live soon. Stay tuned!

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@joemmcdonne11

2 years

An aerial tour of the famous out & back routing of The Old Course, with its crazy and ingenious crossover at holes 7 and 11 . @TheHomeofGolf @TheOpen

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@joemmcdonne11

1 year

Coore & Crenshaw brilliance at Sand Hills. Short par 4 with an amphitheatre, boomerang green. Sublime 👌

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@joemmcdonne11

1 year

Flying over the National Golf Links of America

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joemcd_golf

@joemmcdonne11

2 years

As close to a flawless course as feels possible. I run out of superlatives. Dornoch is a total and utter education

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joemcd_golf

@joemmcdonne11

4 years

Really proud of this, and very honoured to have the endorsement of the club 🤩

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joemcd_golf

@joemmcdonne11

2 years

Unbelievable style, yet so much substance. Castle Stuart is the most photogenic course I’ve ever played. Fantastic green sites, brilliant routing and bunker shaping from the heavens. A work of golf art.

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@joemmcdonne11

2 years

A recently finished private commission, commemorating a special moment.

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@joemmcdonne11

7 months

Church Stretton in Shropshire, early this year. Sweeping views for miles around, and a super course full of proper shots and funky greens. Props to Williams and Mills of Cookie Jar for choosing this ace venue

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@joemmcdonne11

2 years

Driving up from Dornoch to Durness this morning. Some spectacular sights to behold

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@joemmcdonne11

8 months

Can’t think of many places that represent better value golf than Dunstanburgh Castle in the north east of England. A truly sensational place 🔥

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@joemmcdonne11

4 years

Been working on a few WaterModels. Any ideas which course this lovely pair of holes belongs to? 🇮🇪

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joemcd_golf

@joemmcdonne11

3 years

A real thrill to see our 18 individual Old Course WaterMaps on the wall of the new St Andrews Links Trust HQ 👊

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@joemmcdonne11

4 years

A stop-motion evolution of Augusta National’s 1st hole – major changes in 1955, 1983, 2002, 2006 @TheMasters

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@joemmcdonne11

3 years

My first full set of clubs from when I started playing in the early 90s. They taught me a valuable lesson: if you miss the centre, your entire upper body will go numb for 25 minutes.

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@joemmcdonne11

2 years

Can’t wait to get started on a very exciting new piece of work 🤩

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@joemmcdonne11

3 years

Sweetens Cove: a study 👍

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@joemmcdonne11

6 months

Always a great pleasure to see a privately commissioned piece of artwork framed and hanging on a customer's wall!

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@joemmcdonne11

8 months

The quintessential trio of pine, sand and sea at Cypress Point. Can golf courses ever improve significantly on this century old layout?

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@joemmcdonne11

2 years

Absolutely adore the grass pathways @RLGCHoylake The flow from green to tee to green is fabulous 💚

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@joemmcdonne11

2 years

Narin & Portnoo custom yardage book artwork

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@joemmcdonne11

2 years

A view over The Old Course, from the Eden Estuary to the town of St Andrews 😎

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@joemmcdonne11

1 year

‘Hogan’s Alley’. A truly brilliant long hole.

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@joemmcdonne11

2 years

A prime candidate for greatest bunkerless hole in the world. Foxy's a bit special.

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@joemmcdonne11

2 years

Nothing can quite match the incredible feeling of starting and finishing a round of golf over these few hectares of sacred turf. A singular experience indeed.

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@joemmcdonne11

9 months

Scotland is littered with great 9-holers, but there don’t seem to be very many top class ones south of the border. Alnmouth Village is the real deal, though. The Hill Hole is brilliantly nuts. And standing on the 7th tee stirs the soul. Especially in the twilight hours of Autumn

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@joemmcdonne11

2 years

Spectacularly photogenic land filled with thrilling, high calibre golf. The Machrie is brilliant.

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@joemmcdonne11

2 years

One of the most eye-popping changes at Augusta – the 15th fairway was VERY wide in 1934 🤯

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@joemmcdonne11

1 year

When you say you like bunkering to look natural, what do you mean? THIS:

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@joemmcdonne11

7 months

I'm not sure that golf days, or any days, come much more perfect than one spent at Muirfield in beaming summer sunshine.

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@joemmcdonne11

3 years

For my money, the 4th hole at St George’s is as good as golf gets 🔥

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@joemmcdonne11

2 years

The 8th at Sand Hills. Relatively short, unequivocally handsome.

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@joemmcdonne11

3 years

Lots of contenders, but is this the greatest hole in golf?

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@joemmcdonne11

4 years

All sorts to chew on here. What a hole!

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@joemmcdonne11

2 years

National Golf Links of America. I hear it's pretty good 👀

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@joemmcdonne11

9 months

Ah Brancaster, you gorgeous crazy diamond. My very kind host arranged for us to play at a time when the tide would be highest as we played the 8th and 9th. Truly a beautiful experience. The images are now etched into my memory.

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joemcd_golf

@joemmcdonne11

1 year

A really beautiful looking hole. The 6th at The Creek Club

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joemcd_golf

@joemmcdonne11

4 years

Augusta National, 1933. Including today's hole numberings, for orientation.

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@joemmcdonne11

9 months

A recently finished private commission. The 11th hole at The Creek Club, with its Biarritz-style green and incredible wetlands.

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@joemmcdonne11

1 year

A slightly different view of a familiar stretch of golf land

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@joemmcdonne11

2 years

You’d need a heart of stone and brain full of mush not to be flabbergasted by this shining diamond of a 9-holer. Soul well and truly stirred.

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@joemmcdonne11

2 years

The brutal 2nd hole at Dornoch

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@joemmcdonne11

4 years

I understand it’s meant to be quite a good hole? 🤯 Sweetens Cove 5th. Short, wide and rippled, with an ethereal vibe and a touch of pretty much everything good about golf.

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joemcd_golf

@joemmcdonne11

4 years

Fire in the sky tonight at Hoylake. Absolutely breathtaking sunset 🤯

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@joemmcdonne11

8 months

All manner of dazzling light over Hoylake this afternoon. Magic in the air 🪄

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@joemmcdonne11

2 years

Brancaster sits in a class all of its own. Like visiting a course in a parallel universe. A singular golf experience 💜

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@joemmcdonne11

8 months

Outstanding Dunstanburgh Castle on the Northumberland coast sweeps around Embleton Bay. The setting is truly spectacular, but the golf here is the real deal.

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@joemmcdonne11

3 years

Solid contender for the Greatest Hole Ever award. Especially beautiful at sunrise, with ribs and ridges on show.

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@joemmcdonne11

2 years

Wonderful North Berwick 🤩

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@joemmcdonne11

2 years

I’m very happy to announce that my Royal Dornoch artwork is now available. There were thrills and spills making this one. I think I almost cried a couple of times out frustration! But it was worth the effort. I love this course 😍 . @evalu18golf @sd_cooper @RoyalDornochGC

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@joemmcdonne11

2 years

The contrasting fairways of the opening and closing holes of The Old Course, St Andrews. The genius of man and the perfection of nature, singing in beautiful harmony. Lovely to see the footprint of Halket’s bunker, and to imagine the course played over its ancient 22-hole routing

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joemcd_golf

@joemmcdonne11

3 years

Testing our 3D WaterMap prints. This one’s 60x80cm 👍

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@joemmcdonne11

3 years

Ruggedly beautiful and an astoundingly good golf course. Woodhall Spa gets better with every play.

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@joemmcdonne11

4 years

The Castle Course - St Andrews Links. Before and after

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@joemmcdonne11

2 years

Impossible to overstate how much influence this beautiful piece of land has had on the game we love. @TheHomeofGolf

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@joemmcdonne11

8 months

Although a contradiction, Rye possesses an understated magnificence. There isn’t too much or too little of anything. It’s just right. And I love it.

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joemcd_golf

@joemmcdonne11

1 year

An unforgettable day at Dornoch. So much love for this beautiful place. There’s nowhere quite like it.

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joemcd_golf

@joemmcdonne11

1 year

A beautiful piece of craftsmanship – hand carved table by Royal St George’s member Adrian Thompson. What a clever chap ❤️

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joemcd_golf

@joemmcdonne11

1 year

Wow, Church Stretton delivered on many levels today. Inordinately beautiful, and packed full of excellent, thought-provoking holes. Highly recommended 👌

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joemcd_golf

@joemmcdonne11

2 years

Stately and classy but rugged and explosive. Sumptuous fairways and green sites complemented by clever architecture. I could happily play Machrihanish every day for a month.

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joemcd_golf

@joemmcdonne11

3 years

A fierce wind and blazing sunshine. What a perfect day at North Berwick 💪☀️

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@joemmcdonne11

3 years

Sunrise over the 5th and 6th hole at Royal St George's ☀️

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@joemmcdonne11

3 years

For absolutely no reason whatsoever, here’s my fantasy routing over the utterly incredible coastal land next door to Muirfield and Renaissance. I’m aware it’s owned by the HCEG, and there’ll never be a golf course built there, but it’s fun to dream

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joemcd_golf

@joemmcdonne11

4 years

Augusta National • Holes 1 and 9 • November 1932, as-built • produced by the Olmsted Brothers Firm @TheMasters #themasters

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joemcd_golf

@joemmcdonne11

9 months

The clubhouse at St George’s Hill is one of the very finest of all 👌

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@joemmcdonne11

3 months

Morfontaine provides one of very best golf days imaginable. The big course has a fluid routing laced with subtlety, strategy and variety. The smaller course is packed with wild greens and fabulous short holes. The clubhouse is understated and beautiful. An experience to savour.

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joemcd_golf

@joemmcdonne11

2 years

A short flight around my model of @wallaseygolf ’s fantastic 11th hole. . @johnmac150 @sd_cooper

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@joemmcdonne11

2 years

We’ve all been left absolutely flabbergasted by Mach Dunes. Hard to imagine a better course for matchplay golf. A spiritual experience.

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@joemmcdonne11

2 years

Hoylake in the Spring is very lovely.

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joemcd_golf

@joemmcdonne11

4 years

White Dogwood (11th/2nd) at Augusta National. The creek left of the green was turned into a pond in 1951. A new tee was built in 1952, changing the 11th from a dogleg, to a longer, straighter par 4.

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@joemmcdonne11

3 years

A 10cm contour study of the 7 & 11 double green complex of The Old Course

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