Previous Next St. Andrews Beach GC Rye, Victoria, Australia2004 Built over a wonderful stretch of the “Cups” land on the Mornington Peninsula, St. Andrews Beach is the most natural course I’ve built. Apart from digging bunkers, we only moved a bit of earth on the par-4 15th fairway so that not everyone’s second shot would […]
Previous Next Tumble Creek GC at Suncadia Cle Elum, WA 2005 Tumble Creek is the private side of Suncadia, just across the Cle Elum River from the resort lodge. Even with 450 home sites inside its gates, the natural beauty of the property and the elbow room we were given by the developer allowed for
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Previous Next Stone Eagle GC Palm Desert, CA2005 When I first crested the hill to see the rocky plateau where Stone Eagle is now built, our client Ted Lennon asked me what I thought of the land, and I said it would be spectacular IF I could figure out how to fit in 18 holes
Previous Next Ballyneal GC Holyoke, CO2006 Inspired by the success of Sand Hills, the O’Neal brothers wanted to build a links-style course in the chop hills of far northeastern Colorado. I told them it would only succeed if it was one of the best courses in the world, and even then, it might be a
Previous Next Sebonack Southampton, NY2006 The inquiry didn’t sound real, honestly: co-design a golf course with Jack Nicklaus, on sandy ground with frontage on the Peconic Bay, next door to the National Golf Links of America? But it was for real, and the course opened for play in 2006. The goal was to develop a
Previous Next The Renaissance Club Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland2007 Next door neighbor to the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, on the great stretch of golf courses between Gullane and North Berwick, The Renaissance is a private members’ club with a challenging 18-hole course that plays right to the edge of the Firth of Forth. From
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Previous Next Rock Creek Cattle Company Deer Lodge, MT2008 For years this was our most underrated course, but now it is starting to gain prominence on the top-100 lists. The course is part of a private club and residential community in western Montana, set on a 30,000-acre ranch, with all activity centered around trout fishing
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Previous Next Aetna Springs GC Pope Valley, CA2008 * closed 2017 * The Aetna Springs resort was founded in 1893, up over the hills from the north end of the Napa Valley. We refurbished the original nine-hole course to make the most of its sixty acres, to be followed by another 18-hole course close by,
Previous Next Bahia de los Suenos Baja del Sur, Mexico2009 * closed 2010 * Our project 75 miles north of Cabo San Lucas had barely opened, when the twin shocks of the 2008 Housing Crisis and the Drug War in Mexico came in rapid succession, killing the market for homes in a deserted corner of
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Previous Next CommonGround GC Aurora, CO2009 Our friends at the Colorado Golf Association had scrimped and saved handicap fees for ten years, and wanted to spend their $4 million to transform Mira Vista Golf Course into a hub for golf in Colorado, capable of hosting every state golf event and national events as well —
