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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.
This is a partial list of golf courses for the design of which Australian golf course architect Greg Norman was at least in part responsible. The list is sorted by country, and then course. An up to date list can be found via the Greg Norman Golf Course Design database: [1] OD denotes courses for which Norman is the original designer
The following is a partial list of golf courses designed by Pete Dye. [1] He is credited with designing more than 200 courses internationally during his lifetime. [2] In 1982, Sports Illustrated wrote that Dye had a reputation for transforming "unpromising" land into picturesque and challenging golf courses, that required a style of play called "target golf".
This was originally designed by Ross but underwent numerous modifications in the 1980s under Robert Trent Jones, an influential architect but one whose approach to golf course design was later felt to be incompatible with Ross's. [4] The restorations achieved a higher profile when the course was selected to host the Senior PGA Championship for ...
Hogan helped to design the original plans for the Trophy Club Country Club golf course in Trophy Club and 18 of the course's 36 holes are designated as the "Hogan" Course. Hogan played on two U.S. Ryder Cup teams, 1947 and 1951, and captained the team three times, 1947, 1949, and 1967, famously claiming on the last occasion to have brought the ...
Golf course superintendents are often trained in the uses of these practices and grasses. This has led to significant reduction in the amount of water and chemicals on courses. Golf course turf is an excellent filter for water and has been used in communities to cleanse grey water, such as incorporating them into bioswales.
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]
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.