Mike Cocking Talks The Hills Redevelopment And More

About this episode

Mike Cocking discusses the redevelopment of The Hills Golf Club and shares insights on his projects.

Hello and Welcome Back! It was a pleasure to chat with Mike Cocking recently, who is a Director of golf architecture firm - OCM. OCM are behind the redevelopment of The Hills Golf Club near Arrowtown, which promises to be an amazing transformation of the existing layout. Mike spoke in depth on his thoughts of the existing layout, and some of the changes that they will look to make as work gets underway. On the back-end of the pod Mike gave his thoughts on many of his other projects with...

People in this episode

Host: Charlie Mercer

Guest: Mike Cocking

Topics covered

• golf architecture
• redevelopment
• The Hills Golf Club
• Mike Cocking
• golf design

Keywords

• golf
• architecture
• redevelopment
• The Hills
• OCM
• design
• Arrowtown

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: OCM

Places: The Hills Golf Club, Arrowtown

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