My 10 favorite golf course architects and their standout layouts. 1 Tom Doak. Doak has been the talk of the golf world ever since his Oregon coast meisterwerk Pacific Dunes created worldwide attention. Golf is Bandon's ... 2 Ben Crenshaw and Bill Coore. 3 Tom Fazio. 4 Pete Dye. 5 Jack Nicklaus. More items
Ironically, Mies created a three-step architectural curriculum based on his own design techniques at the Illinois Institute of Technology in the mid-twentieth century, some components of which are still taught today. Louis Sullivan. Photo: Ryerson Burnham Archives, Art Institute of Chicago
Widely considered to be the father of the modern skyscraper, Louis Sullivan only spent about a year and a half total on his formal education: there was a year at MIT, and then six months at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, after a span of working for Frank Furness and William Le Baron Jenney.
There are architects (who have done valuable works) who have gone through a formal system of education.. The only thing that is important I feel is the passion, and truth is that every designer has his/her personal journey.. And I see better architects as entrepreneurs..
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As one of the preeminent golf course architects of the early 20th century, he designed such notable courses as Oakland Hills Country Club, Oak Hill Country Club, Seminole Golf Club and Inverness Club. But Pinehurst No. 2, which will host the U.S. Open and the U.S. Women's Open in 2014, is widely considered to be his legacy.
David McLay Kidd. Kidd, a Sco tsman, gathered worldwide attention after his inaugural design at Bandon Dunes on the rugged Oregon coast. This seaside gem located on pure links land put the village of Bandon on the golf map and helped make Bandon Dunes a first-class golf resort.
The "good doctor" is famous for laying out three of the best golf courses in the world: Cypress Point Club, Augusta National and Royal Melbourne. One course that is often overlooked is Pasatiempo, where MacKenzie spent the last years of his life (he had a home right off the sixth hole). This par-70 layout might be the longest 6,500-yard course on the planet. A number of holes play uphill, and MacKenzie's trademark "finger" bunkers and undulated greens are featured throughout the round.
His best layout accessible to the public is the infamous Black Course at Bethpage State Park in New York. Obsessed golfers regularly sleep in their cars to get a tee time for the next morning. Bethpage Black, which hosted the U.S. Open in 2002 and 2009, is a tribute to the "Golden Age" of golf course design.
Streamsong Red in Florida, built in 2012, has been lauded as one of the premier new courses.
Tom Doak. Doak has been the talk of the golf world ever since his Oregon coast meisterwerk Pacific Dunes created worldwide attention. Golf is Bandon's "raison d'etre" -- and Doak's bona fide links course is the shining star. The unorthodox layout features back-to-back par 3s and only two par 4s on the back nine.
Jack Nicklaus. While the Golden Bear is arguably the best golfer of all time, his course designs are a constant subject to criticism -- especially his earlier designs. They were described as too hard and demanded players to play a number of high fades -- Nicklaus' trademark shot.
Roseman was one of the early pioneers in the use of comprehensive underground watering systems for golf courses. He sold this idea and the irrigation pipes along with his tractor mowers. In 1922, Roseman became the first president of the Illinois PGA. In the mid-1920s Roseman curtailed his career as golf professional to concentrate on manufacturing golf course equipment. He opened the Roseman Tractor Mowing Company in Evanston, Illinois, in 1928. Many of Roseman 's roller-type mowers are still operational and being used at courses around the country.
He left Westmoreland in 1928 to handle his golf course design business. In total, he is credited with the design of more than 50 golf courses and made alterations on at least 100 courses. He worked with Jack Burke, Sr. in the design of golf clubs and also collaborated with Burke in the operation of an indoor golf school in Des Moines around 1918.
Roseman died on February 29, 1944 at his home in Glenview, Illinois. He is remembered as an inventor of golf course mowing equipment in the early 20th century and as an important golf course architect. He is known as the "father of the modern mower".
In the 1920 PGA Championship, contested from August 17–21 at the Flossmoor Country Club outside Flossmoor, Illinois, a suburb south of Chicago, Roseman met Louis Tellier in a first round match. He was not playing his best golf and was soundly defeated in the match by the score of 10 and 9. Roseman took home $50 in prize money.
As a kid growing up on the Monterey Peninsula in the early ’70s, Curley worked as a cart attendant at Spyglass Hill and as a fill-in caddie at Pebble Beach. But the layout he liked best was Cypress Point, which transfixed him in its routing from dunes to pines to coast. Nearly half a lifetime later, the Alister MacKenzie gem remains his favorite. But as an architect himself, Curley, 60, now has a broader view of golf design. “If you start with a spectacular property and give someone carte blanche, I’d like to think that almost any decent architect could do a pretty good job,” he says. When taking stock of a completed project, Curley gives careful thought to what it took to create it. Was the land unfriendly? Were there zoning restrictions? An owner whose priority was selling homes? Not all flaws are forgiven. “If you bury a bunch of elephants under the greens, I know the coastal commission didn’t make you do that,” he says. But, he adds, “I’ve got a special affinity towards someone who takes a difficult site and turns it into something memorable. There aren’t very many people who do that well.”
In 2015, while serving as golf and greens chairman at Cedar Rapids Country Club, Halyard emerged as a driving force behind the architect Ron Prichard’s artful restoration of Iowa’s only Donald Ross layout — a project that has vaulted the once overlooked course to the precipice of GOLF’s latest U.S. Top 100 list. Halyard’s involvement with the redo was a first for man who’d dabbled in golf as a kid but only really started playing when had children of his own. His midlife embrace of course design has been impassioned, and it’s driven him to other creative endeavors, including a documentary, now in the works, on the making of Mike Keiser’s Sand Valley. “What I’ve really come to appreciate is the way that great course architecture, when it’s made available to the public, can affect the surrounding community,” Halyard says. “It can attract economic development and enhance life for people of all backgrounds. And once you start to understand it, it can also help you play better golf.”
Until his retirement last October, Bob Ranum was the only superintendent the Rees Jones–designed course in Bridgehampton, N.Y., ever had. Ranum’s overall greens-keeping career spans 43 years — 30 of them at Atlantic. Now he’s a member there and one of GOLF’s newest raters.
No days off? Sounds like a luxury. From an early age, he was fascinated by course architecture, drawing loops on his own. Now, Lisbon is a proud member of Royal Melbourne , and he’ll put it up there with the best of the best. “Ten years on, I’m still realizing nuances and subtleties that I never knew existed,” Lisbon says. “That’s a hallmark of a great course.” Hauling his camera and clubs, Lisbon has played about everywhere. Twenty-one countries and 500-plus courses by his count. Next on his list is a trip to Canada in 2020. You can bet that Cabot Links is on the docket.
Lukas Michel is the latter. In September, the Aussie caddie became the first non-American to win the U.S. Mid-Am, which, understandably, has him thinking about a playing career. But he’s already a full-time appreciator of a proper layout.