Goofy Golf GOLF MagazineMay, 1988 By 1988 I was a full-fledged Contributing Editor to GOLF Magazine, writing 3-4 articles a year about championship venues, and keeping track of the magazine’s course rankings. Though they were never sold on having a real “architecture critic,” they did let me write this piece, which was about the increasingly […]
The 100 Greatest Holes in America GOLF MagazineSeptember, 1986 The golf magazines have rated the best courses since the 1960’s, but to my knowledge this was the only time when one asked its panelists to rate all of the best golf holes in America, to try and produce a definitive list. We limited the list
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Previous Next High Pointe GC Williamsburg, MI1989 * closed 2009 * For my very first design I was lucky to stumble onto a wonderful piece of land for golf, and though I didn’t yet know what my own design style would be, I vowed to err on the side of moving too little earth, instead
Previous Next The Legends GC Heathland Course Myrtle Beach, SC 1990 Developer Larry Young wanted to build a links-style course for the Myrtle Beach golf market, and asked the Scottish golf photographer, Brian Morgan, to recommend a young British designer for the job. Instead, Brian recommended the young American who had recently spent a year
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Previous Next Black Forest GC Wilderness Valley Resort Gaylord, MI 1991 Finding walkable routing for Black Forest was a challenge, because our topo map for the project started 1,000 yards from the clubhouse for the original 18 holes, and our client didn’t want to build a separate pro shop! After much deliberation, we decided to
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Previous Next Charlotte Golf Links Charlotte, NC 1993 * closed 2015 * Our links-style public course on the outskirts of Charlotte was short-lived, as the project was built on a 25-year land bank lease, while the land value continued to increase for residential development. It was popular in its day because it was different than
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Previous Next Stonewall – Old Course Elverson, PA 1993 It was a stroke of luck for me to get to build this high-end private club west of Philadelphia at such an early stage of my career, after the original designer [Tom Fazio] had pulled out due to other commitments. We started with the Fazio plan
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Quail Crossing GC Evansville, IN 1997 Quail Crossing is a 300-acre golf development in the eastern suburbs of Evansville, and we were hired to do the overall land plan as well as the golf course, so that the two could be married together seamlessly. Several holes run along the perimeter of the property, so that
Beechtree GC Aberdeen, MD 1998 * closed 2007 * My seventh course to open its doors was also the first to close — Beechtree opened in 1997 and closed ten years later, when the expansion of the Aberdeen Proving Grounds made the land more valuable for residential development. It had been built as the
Previous Next Riverfront GC at Harbour View Suffolk, VA1999 The Riverfront golf course is the centerpiece of the sprawling Harbour View development on the south bank of the Nansemond River, master planned for 1200 homes. Golf holes are laid out on three separate peninsulas divided by fingers of tidal marsh, with the bridges that link
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