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Robert Trent Jones, Sr
- James Hansen In his seven decades as golf ’s most prolific architect, Robert Trent Jones, Sr (1906-2000) logged an estimated eight million miles, created or remodelled more than 350 courses, including more courses for national championships than any other golf architect.
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May 29, 2024 · “Harry Colt was the first man to make his living solely from golf architecture and the most important designer of golf courses in the game’s history,” says Lawrence. “His legacy is the modern-day spread of golf around the world.”
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- Tom Fazio (14) Public. 27. Shadow Creek. North Las Vegas, NV. 4.9. 148 Panelists. 100 Greatest. 100 Greatest Public. Best In State. The Match between Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods may have fizzled as a pay-per-view spectacle, but the venue was certainly a showcase during the Black Friday, 2018 broadcast.
- Donald Ross (9) Private. 10. Seminole Golf Club. Juno Beach, FL. 4.8. 211 Panelists. 100 Greatest. Best In State. A majestic Donald Ross design with a clever routing on a rectangular site, each hole at Seminole encounters a new wind direction.
- A.W. Tillinghast (8) Private. 11. Winged Foot Golf Club: West. Mamaroneck, NY. 4.8. 201 Panelists. 100 Greatest. Best In State. Gone are all the Norway Spruce that once squeezed every fairway of Winged Foot West.
- Pete Dye (7) Public. 24. Kiawah Island Golf Resort: The Ocean Course. Kiawah Island, SC. 4.8. 690 Panelists. 100 Greatest. 100 Greatest Public. Best In State. Often considered to be the first course designed for a specific event—the 1991 Ryder Cup—this manufactured linksland-meets-lagoons layout might well be Pete Dye’s most diabolical creation.
May 21, 2009 · In his seven decades as golf ’s most prolific architect, Robert Trent Jones, Sr (1906-2000) logged an estimated eight million miles, created or remodelled more than 350 courses, including more courses for national championships than any other golf architect.
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- Switchbacks
- Diagonal Hazards
- Creative Greens
A switchback hole is a par 4 or 5 that promotes opposing shot shapes on the tee shot and the approach. Think of the 13th hole at Augusta National: a right-to-left drive is strongly preferred, and a left-to-right approach (if you can execute it off the sidehill lie) works best. Donald Ross’s courses, too, give an advantage to players who can work th...
When cross hazards appear on Ross’s courses—whether creeks or bunker complexes—they are often oriented diagonally to the line of play. This allows players to choose shorter or longer carries, depending on how much they want to risk in order to gain an angle or proximity advantage on their next shot.
Ross’s brilliance really shines on and around his greens. While the architect is often associated with “turtleback” greens that repel slightly errant shots, he actually employed that style at only a few of his designs, most famously at Pinehurst No. 2. He should be known more for the sheer variety of greens he built site to site and course to cours...
Joe Lee was a prolific late-20th-century golf course architect. He worked on more than 200 golf courses in his career, including several dozen Florida golf courses.
Donald James Ross (November 23, 1872 – April 26, 1948) was a professional golfer and golf course designer. Ross was born and raised in Scotland but moved to the United States as a young man. Ross designed dozens of courses across North America and is generally regarded as one of the top golf course designers of all time.
Nov 25, 2019 · Course architects A.W. Tillinghast, Donald Ross, Alister Mackenzie, and Old Tom Morris each have multiple courses on the list. Those are household names, giants in the history of golf...
