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This is a list of golf course architects and golf course design firms. Golf course architecture is a specific discipline of landscape design, with many architects represented in the United States by the American Society of Golf Course Architects. Some architects are highly successful professional golfers who went on to design golf courses.
William J. Devine Memorial Golf Course, Boston (re-design) Littlputt Links, Brookline (Indoor miniature golf) [3] Kernwood Country Club, Salem; Fresh Pond Golf Course, Cambridge; Ponkapoag Golf Course No. 1, Canton; Ponkapoag Golf Course No. 2 (Front 9 only), Canton; Cohasset Golf Club, Cohasset; Concord Country Club, Concord; Oak Hill Country ...
Theodore G. Robinson (May 17, 1923 – March 2, 2008) was an American golf course architect. [1]Born in Long Beach, California, Robinson was an undergraduate at the University of California in Berkeley and received a master's degree in planning from the University of Southern California in 1948. [1]
Using drainage and irrigation to improve linksland golf courses, by digging shallow wells at each green for irrigation and with making minor drainage improvements to bunkers. [10] The first strategic design of hazards such that hazards could work as markers so that players could plan their play around them.
This is a list of golf courses for the design of which American golf course architect A. W. Tillinghast was at least in part responsible. OD denotes courses for which Tillinghast is the original designer; R denotes courses reconstructed by Tillinghast; A denotes courses for which Tillinghast made substantial additions
The American Society of Golf Course Architects (abbreviated as ASGCA) is a professional organization of golf course designers in America. Founded in 1946, [ 1 ] its members are actively involved in the design of new courses and the renovation of existing courses in the United States and Canada . [ 2 ]
Strantz was born in Toledo, Ohio and raised in Walbridge. [2] [3] He graduated from Michigan State University in 1978 with a degree in turf grass management.He began his career working on the grounds crew at Inverness Club in Toledo where Tom Fazio was preparing the course for the 1979 U.S. Open. Fazio noticed that Strantz had a gift for the work and was invited to join his construction crew ...
George Clifford Thomas Jr. (October 3, 1873 – February 23, 1932) was an American golf course architect, botanist, and writer. He designed the original course at Whitemarsh Valley Country Club, outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and more than twenty courses in California, including Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades and Red Hill Country Club in Rancho Cucamonga.