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Architect Jo Lee. “Gentleman Joe Lee” earned a reputation as a southern gent who designed and built player-friendly golf courses around the world including, Palm Beach National Golf and Country Club. His courses are known to challenge all levels of golfers. Blue Monster, LaCosta, Bay Hill, Cog Hill (Western Open) and Warwick Hills (Buick Open).
Joe Lee might be the most prolific golf course architect you've never heard of. Over his 40-plus year career, Lee would leave a mark on some 200 golf courses. A direct descendant of Civil War general Robert E. and a veteran of the U.S. Navy, Lee got his start in golf working for Louis Sibbett “Dick” Wilson. As Wilson’s career and life ...
Joe Lee was one of golf's most celebrated architects of the 20th century. Over his 40-plus year career, Lee left a mark on some 200 golf courses. A direct descendant of Civil War general Robert E. and a veteran of the U.S. Navy, Lee got his start in golf working for Dick Wilson. As Wilson's career and life petered out due to alcoholism, Lee ...
Oct 23, 2015 · That’s where he met Dick Wilson, one of the era’s most prominent course designers. Lee and Wilson worked hand-in-hand on such fabled layouts as Cog Hill No. 4 near Chicago and Orlando’s Bay Hill, now Arnold Palmer’s home. When Wilson died in 1965, Lee set out on his own. The Indian Mound Course is one of golf course architect, Joe Lee ...
Gentleman Joe Lee. For over 50 years, Mr. Joe Lee was a golf course architect and a consummate gentleman of the game. Joe Lee might be the greatest golf course architect you never heard of. Joe Lee remained surprisingly anonymous despite creating and renovating more than 250 golf courses (including both the Magnolia and Oak Golf Courses ...
Joe Lee was the consumate southern gentleman. He will be sorely missed. Ron Whitten's recent book is wonderful, and full of Joe's design philosophy, wit, and wisdom. It is available through Joe's Foundation. I can get information on this if anyone wishes. He was a very modest man, something unique to golf course architects. ian: I met Joe at ...
Bent Pine is the crown jewel of the 80 Florida courses designed by golf architect, “Gentleman” Joe Lee, who also co-designed Doral’s Blue Monster and Orlando’s Bay Hill, with his early partner, Dick Wilson. Considered in the “Goldilocks Zone,” it offers tour caliber holes challenging low handicappers, yet enjoyable to those with ...
