Back to story...

It's all in the design(er)

The Legends DESIGNER NOTEWORTHY COURSES STYLE Donald Ross (1872-1948) Pinehurst No. 2, Pinehurst, N.C. Essex County Club, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass. Kernwood Country Club, Salem, Mass. Salem Country Club, Peabody, Mass. Winchester Country Club, Winchester, Mass Limited water, strategically placed bunkers, demand on approach shots and placement of tee shots, crowned greens Robert Trent Jones (1906-2000) Ipswich Country Club, Ipswich, Mass. Crumpin Fox Club, Bernardston, Mass. Hazeltine National Golf Club, Chaska, Minn. Peachtree Golf Club, Atlanta, Ga. Oakland Hills Country Club, Bloomfield Hills, Mich Tree-lined fairways, innovative use of bunkers, clever placement of greens and hazards that encourage a high level of strategy Pete Dye TPC at Sawgrass, Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Stadium Course, PGA West, Palm Springs, Calif. Crooked Stick Golf Course, Carmel, Ind Pot bunkers, rolling fairways, elevated tees, abundance of water Alister Mackenzie (1870-1934) Augusta National Golf Course, Augusta, Ga. Cypress Point Golf Club, Pebble Beach, Calif. Royal Melbourne Golf Club, Australia Indefinable style; the master of risk and reward in hazard placement, fair and strategic golf without disrupting the layout, his courses are more about the setting than the architectural traits of the designer The Locals DESIGNER NOTEWORTHY COURSES STYLE Brian Silva Cape Cod National Golf Club, Brewster, Mass. Shaker Hills Golf Club, Harvard, Mass. Red Tail Golf Club, Devens, Mass. Black Rock Country Club, Hingham, Mass. Waverly Oaks Golf Club, Plymouth, Mass. Expect the unexpected; bunkers biting aggressively, randomly into fairways, punch bowl greens, wider corridors of play Phil Wogan Rowley Country Club, Rowley, Mass. New Meadows Golf Club, Topsfield, Mass. The Georgetown Club, Georgetown, Mass. Atkinson Country Club, Atkinson, N.H. Point Sebago Golf Course, Casco, Maine An emphasis on possibility over penalization, lots of water, lots of sand Cabell Robinson La Cala Golf Club, Spain Santana Golf & Country Club, Spain Aphrodite Hills Golf Club, Cyprus Golf Les Dunes, Morocco Preserves many of original landscape features; imaginative and varied layouts despite European space limitations, generously wide fairways offset by strategic hazard placement Ron Kirby Old Head Golf Links, Ireland Dolphin Head Golf Course, Hilton Head, S.C. London Golf Club International Course, England Barbados Golf & Country Club, Barbados. Design emphasis on what ball will do and can do; wide variance of greens, last four holes “always downhill with the sun behind you”