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Gil Hanse. Gilbert Hanse (born August 12, 1963) is an American golf course designer. Hanse, along with his business partner Jim Wagner, was selected to design the Rio 2016 Olympic Golf Course, the first Olympic venue to host golf since 1904.
Hugh Irvine Wilson (November 13, 1879 - February 3, 1925) was a golf course designer. He is most famous for designing Merion Golf Club, consistently ranked among the top golf courses in the USA. Wilson also finished the last four holes at the famous Pine Valley Golf Club.
During his junior year at Irmo High School, Weed convinced his father to convert their family-owned bean fields into Weed Hill Driving Range. Dustin Johnson, Wesley Bryan, Lauren Stephenson and 70 others who made their careers by playing professionally, becoming superintendents or golf course architects credit Weed Hill Driving Range for their introductions to golf.
Arthur Hills (1930 – May 18, 2021 [1]) was an American golf course designer.He designed more than 200 new golf courses, including private, resort, upscale, and public golf courses around the world.
Minimalism is a school of golf design that focuses on concentrating the design of a golf hole (or routing) around the natural features of the land. His most successful courses have been built on sand dunes, taking advantage of the sandy soil for drainage and also allowing for the reuse of native elements.
The golf course and resort was a joint venture between Tiger Woods Design and Tatweer, a member company of Dubai Holding. [ 2 ] According to Dubai Properties Group Chief Executive Officer Khalid Al Malik "Work on the course, designed by Woods and originally due to be finished by September 2009, has gotten as far as the eighth hole". [ 3 ] (
Cupp helped design courses for Jack Nicklaus from 1976 to 1982. [3] He also designed the Old Waverly Golf Club in West Point, Mississippi , with Jerry Pate , the Savannah Quarters Country Club in Pooler, Georgia , with Greg Norman , and the Witch Hollow Golf Course at the Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club in North Plains, Oregon , with John Fought . [ 3 ]
Alister MacKenzie (30 August 1870 – 6 January 1934) was an English golf course architect whose course designs span four continents. Originally trained as a surgeon, MacKenzie served as a civilian physician with the British Army during the Boer War where he first became aware of the principles of camouflage.