Design/Build
Using a place-based design/build model to create new or renovate existing golf courses. Place-based design explores the connection between the natural and built environments and finds ways to integrate the two together. It requires immersing oneself into the setting, studying its surrounding land forms, soil, existing vegetation, culture, community, and history to reveal the sites’ maximum potential. The analysis, coupled with the client’s goals and objectives, drives the creative process. This process yields its best results when the architect is on-site throughout the project, leading and overseeing the feature shaping and finish shaping.
Restoration
Courses with great bones rarely go out of style. They still possess the ability to challenge the vast majority of modern golfers, but sometimes these courses - either through neglect, deferred maintenance, or change - are a shell of their former self. The reward of a restoration is rediscovering a feature that's been lost i.e., a fairway bunker that forces a decision off the tee, a green expansion that creates a new pin position, or a new fairway line that promotes a new strategy. Restoration projects challenge architects because they force one to think, design, and build in the style of another. Mending a course with great bones is an opportunity to restore an historic landscape, to learn, to discover a new process, and to see golf architecture from a different perspective.
Consulting
The goal of hiring a consultant is to get a fresh set of eyes on your course to see if it could be better. It’s not a commitment undertake a load of work or spend a lot of money. Oftentimes, the simplest and cheapest changes can have the largest impact on the quality of the course i.e., grassing lines, tree removal, green expansion, etc. Having an experienced and well-traveled eye analyze the existing course can help differentiate between features that should remain the same, features that just need some polishing, and fundamentally flawed features that need addressing.