Dundee Golf Design

Happiest in the dirt.

Blake Conant · Designer · Omaha, Nebraska

With Charlie, on the excavator
With Charlie, on the excavator
2009
BFA in painting, University of Montana
2012
Intern for Tom Doak, Dismal River
2013
MLA, University of Georgia
2013
Founded Dundee Golf Design, LLC
Based
Omaha, Nebraska

Design happens in the dirt.

In 2012 Tom Doak offered me an internship building Dismal River in the Nebraska Sandhills. Those three months helped me understand what goes into building a great course, but also confirmed something I didn't know: design doesn't happen on paper, it happens in the dirt.

I formed Dundee Golf in 2013. Since then I've designed, restored and renovated courses across the country, both on my own and while working with Tom Doak and Renaissance Golf Design, Gil Hanse, and Todd Eckenrode.

How I work

I'm a designer who builds. I'm never happier than when I'm on site in the dirt or on a machine.

  1. New courses

    Site selection, routing, master plans and construction, start to finish.

    Old Barnwell · The Gilroy · The Hill

  2. Restoration and renovation

    Bringing back what golden-age architects built, and master plans, budgets and phased work that make an older course play better.

    Dornick Hills · Bel-Air · Shorehaven

  3. Consulting

    Site visits, second opinions and long-range advice for owners and green committees.

    Columbus CC · Minnehaha CC · Shorehaven GC · Watchung Valley GC

Process

  1. 01

    Research

    Historic aerials, old plans, LiDAR and soil maps. I learn what the ground, and the original architect where there was one, have to say.

  2. 02

    Plan

    Routings, a master plan, hole-by-hole drawings and a clear budget the club can act on.

  3. 03

    Build

    I stay on site from clearing to grassing and shape the greens and bunkers myself.

  4. 04

    Refine

    Getting the last 5 to 10 percent right through editing and detail work. That's the part that makes great courses what they are.

By the numbers

  • 50+courses worked on
  • 21U.S. states
  • 5countries
  • 400+courses played and studied

Outside the U.S.

Point Grey, Vancouver · Punta Brava, Ensenada · Twin Dolphin, Cabo · St Patrick's Links, Ireland · The National, Australia

Built with

Tom Doak and Renaissance Golf Design · Gil Hanse · Todd Eckenrode