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A change of pace CONTENTS oing on vacation gives us an opportunity to enjoy a change in pace Digest 4 from our day-to-day lives. But if we make time to play golf while we are We begin this issue with news of the Gaway, do we want the golf course to reflect that change in pace too? ASGCA’s upcoming symposium on This is one of the questions faced by ASGCA members when working for golf course investment, to be held in clients at resorts throughout the globe. Should our approach to design change November at . Also to cater for the visiting golfer whose mindset may be firmly in vacation mode? in the Digest section, we report on Our cover story for this issue of By Design sees ASGCA members sharing Dye Designs' three-course project in their insights into the shifting of priorities when designing golf courses at London, the rebirth of the historic Tam resorts. Find out more by turning to page 12. O'Shanter course in , and many Resort owners throughout the world are continuing to invest in new golf more recent ASGCA-member projects. courses and improving their existing layouts. It’s encouraging to see that golf is considered a priority for attracting guests and filling hotel rooms. Resort design 12 Golf’s enduring appeal is also clear from the influx of new Associate Should resort golf courses, which Members into the ASGCA. Following our 2018 Annual Meeting in Houston, often cater more for one-off visiting we welcomed six golf course architects into our group. golfers than members who return each Our new members have each built a strong portfolio of golf course designs week, be designed any differently? and display the diversity of ASGCA members in their background and their ASGCA members share their thoughts architecture. In the article that begins on page 20 we get a small taste of their on how they might adapt their design work and find out about their reasons for joining the ASGCA. approach for resort clients. I hope you enjoy the issue. New additions 20 We find out more about the six new Associate Members of the ASGCA. What are golf course architects doing? 24 Jon Last of Sports & Leisure Research Group shares more research findings. Jeff Blume, ASGCA Five to finish 26 President Troy Vincent, ASGCA, answers our American Society of Golf Course Architects five questions to finish the issue.

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Issue 40 | Fall 2018 BY DESIGN Editor and Publisher: Toby Ingleton Excellence in Golf Design from the American Society of Golf Course Architects Editorial contributors: Richard Humphreys, Jon Last Design: Bruce Graham, Libby Sidebotham ASGCA Staff: Chad Ritterbusch; Mike Shefky; Aileen Smith; Therese Suslick; Marc Whitney Photography: Arnold Palmer Design Company – Brandon Johnson; Aidan Bradley; Cobblestone Creek CC; Brian Curley; Jeff Danner; Joann Dost; Golfplan; Pedro Güereca Gurrola; Hills, Forrest & Smith; Hoiana Shores Golf Club; iCon Golf Studio; Jacobson Golf Design; Jim Mandeville/Nicklaus Design; David McIntosh; Kevin Norby; Nam Hoi An Golf Resort; Great North Ridge CC; Brian Oar; Robert Parfitt; Pinehurst Resort; Lonna Tucker; Todd Quitno; resort Troy Vincent; Vestavia CC; West Cliffs golf Subscribe to By Design at asgca.org/resources/by-design-magazine

Also: Forward Tees and Other High-ROI Ideas • ASGCA Associates • Golf facility trends © 2018 American Society of Golf Course Architects. All rights reserved. www.asgca.org The seventeenth at TPC Danzante Bay By Design is sponsored by: in Loreto, Mexico, designed by ASGCA Past President , ASGCA, and photographed by Joann Dost.

3 A round-up of recent golf design DIGEST news in association with: Forward tees and other high-ROI ideas Photo: Pinehurst Resort Pinehurst Photo:

he American Society of Golf the course, which now features tees for Course Architects and ASGCA all abilities. Longleaf has since seen a Pinehurst unveils TFoundation will host an 20 percent increase in rounds played. redesigned No. 4 course event at Pinehurst Resort in North Presentations at the symposium will Carolina to promote the benefits of cover: the history and development investing in golf facilities—including of forward tees; the benefits of extra adding forward tees—and how tees at public and private facilities; these investments are directly linked and ways in which golf facilities are to success. utilizing new tees to improve pace Resort Pinehurst Photo: From Tees to Green: A Symposium on of play and to grow the game among Forward Tees and Other High ROI-Ideas golfers of all ages and skill levels. will take place on November 28-29. “The increase in forward and It will feature presentations from additional tees at public and private Hunki Yun of the Golf facilities is proving to be a game Association, pace-of-play experts changer for the golf industry,” said the Arthur Little and Jann Leeming, Dan President of the ASGCA Foundation Van Horn of U.S. Kids Golf, Marty and ASGCA Past President Bruce DeAngelo of , Charlton, ASGCA. “This symposium Pinehurst Resort has recently Lynn Baugher of Rancho Murieta is a great opportunity for golf course unveiled its redesigned No. 4 Country Club and ASGCA members owners, superintendents, architects, course, following a two-year who have worked with clubs to suppliers, industry leaders and players project by Gil Hanse, ASGCA. introduce new forward tees. to learn from each other, leading to “We believe golfers are going to Delegates can play golf at Longleaf greater success for golf facilities.” appreciate how No. 4 fits into the Golf & Family Club, where Bill Bergin, line-up and elevates the entire golf ASGCA, helped the club develop an To sign up for the symposium, visit experience,” said Hanse. innovative teeing system. Players https://asgcafoundation.org/ The No. 4 course will reopen to hit shots on the practice range to from-tees-to-green-a-symposium-on- the public on 20 September. determine which set of tees to use on forward-tees-other-high-roi-ideas.

4 | By Design Design partnership Dye Designs working on three London projects

he golf development group led by the Menai-Davis family Thas formed a partnership with Dye Designs for two new 18-hole golf courses near London, England, plus Parfitt Robert Photo: remodelling of an existing course. The first of the two new courses, West London , is now in construction and scheduled to open in the summer of 2020. The site is opposite West London Golf Centre, a nine-hole course and driving range owned by the Menai-Davis family. From left, Matt McGarey, Cynthia Dye McGarey, ASGCA, Tony Menai-Davis, Dye Designs joined the project Perry Dye, ASGCA, Ceri Menai-Davis and Nigel Ely following a visit this summer by Perry Dye, ASGCA, Cynthia Dye McGarey, We are pushing the boundaries of the world and will be applying ASGCA, and Matt McGarey. The what is possible as regards sculpting everything they have learned to West firm is teaming up with golf course a golfing landscape, with dramatic London Links.” constructor Nigel Ely to shape greens, shaping which UK golfers have not Dye Designs is also working with the bunkers and the undulating fairways. seen before at an inland links. Menai-Davis family on new course, Ceri Menai-Davis, director of the “The Dye family and Nigel Ely are The Dye London, and the remodelling family’s golf interests, said: “West bringing a huge amount of collective of its existing Seve Ballesteros- London Links is a bold, brave design. experience of links courses around designed course, The Shire London.

“The social aspect of sustainability is still an awesome opportunity”

ANDY STAPLES, ASGCA

In the latest podcast from Golf “I tell clubs, this is a 20- to 30-year I think we as an industry have Course Industry’s Tartan Talks series, lifecycle project, so we need to be done an awesome job. But there’s celebrating its two-year anniversary, thinking about things that we’re not one place in the term sustainable, the first-ever guest, Andy Staples, necessarily even aware of today where golf has a lot to do yet, that’s ASGCA, returns to discuss how clubs and, as long as we are being smart in its acceptance, marketing and can reach the millennial generation about it and spending the budget promotion of the value of a golf and sustainable practices. appropriately, we need to start course in a community. Golf has “Fun, flexibility, new tees, forward reaching them.” to continue to sell itself for why tees, three-hole loops, six-hole loops, When asked about where the we play it.” expanded practice facilities. Those industry can improve in terms of are the things that are really speaking sustainability, Staples said: “From Listen to the full Tartan Talk at to the millennial golfer,” said Staples. a water environmental standpoint, golfcourseindustry.com.

HERE ARE LINKS TO OTHER RECENT “TARTAN TALKS”: • Todd Quitno, ASGCA, discusses “saving the world one golf course at a time.” • Jeff Blume, ASGCA, on stormwater management projects and promoting the economic benefits of golf for the masses.

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Renovation Historic Tam O’Shanter

course enters a new era GC Shores Hoiana Photo:

he nine-hole public Tam wanted to know what it would take O’Shanter course in Niles, to improve the teeing grounds for the First Vietnam design for RTJ II TIllinois, has reopened following 30,000 rounds that were played on the Situated near Hoi An, a Unesco a collaboration between the Niles Park public ‘Tam’ course.” Heritage Site, the Hoiana Shores District, Doug Myslinski, ASGCA, of While discussing tees, the topic of course is scheduled to open in Wadsworth Golf Charities Foundation drainage continued to arise. “The 2019. ASGCA Past President and Todd Quitno, ASGCA, of Lohmann course lies on a flood plain [the Robert Trent Jones, Jr., ASGCA Quitno Golf Course Architects, Inc. property is adjacent to a branch of Fellow, said: “This property is the Tees have been expanded, the course one of the main rivers that drains the most perfect canvas. Alongside the has been rebunkered and drainage has northern suburbs of Chicago] and was beautiful coastal terrain, we have been upgraded in a project that now struggling with storm recovery,” said been given the ability to shape a allows the course to stay open longer Quitno, who was brought onto the design befitting this special region and withstand more play. team to collaborate on the design and and magnificent new destination.” The latest work stemmed from a complete the plan work. desire to improve teeing grounds. “We thought the best approach “The executive director of Niles Park would be to start developing a master District had noticed the difference that plan that would reflect the desired squaring off and levelling tees made alterations to the teeing grounds and on a project I worked on at the private the proposed drainage improvements,” club he belongs to,” said Myslinski. “He said Myslinski. CC Creek Cobblestone Photo:

Cobblestone Creek opens following redevelopment Cobblestone Creek Country Club in

Photos: Todd Quitno Todd Photos: Lawrenceville, New Jersey, is now open following a redevelopment of the former Greenacres Country Club by Bobby Weed, ASGCA. “Seeing the results, I’m certain a number of private clubs could benefit from the progressive thinking employed at Cobblestone Creek,” said Weed. Photo: Kevin Norby Kevin Photo:

Norby, ASGCA, adds holes at Edgewater Kevin Norby, ASGCA, has created three new holes at Edgewater CC, a nine-hole public course in New Town, North Dakota, following the State’s decision to build a road Golf course architects Doug Myslinski, ASGCA, and Todd Quitno, ASGCA, through the middle of the course. collaborated on the renovation of the public Tam O'Shanter course “The three new holes—six, seven and eight—are very exciting.”

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Renovation Oneida completes second phase of renovation & Smith Forrest Hills, Photo:

hawn Smith, ASGCA, of large sand-flashed bunkers that of the course, the project has Hills, Forrest & Smith has were prone to washouts, to a more seen Smith attempt to recapture Scompleted the second phase classic flat-floored bunker with steep some features from the design of of a renovation project at the fescue grass faces. The success of the course’s original golf course Oneida Golf and Country Club in the first phase led us to a second architect, Stanley Pelchar. Green Bay, Wisconsin. which consisted of rebuilding all the “Aided primarily by an aerial “Phase one had us rebuilding remaining greenside bunkers and photograph from 1938, we were some of the most problematic expanding the green surfaces back able to largely restore the bunkering bunkers from a maintenance and out to their original dimensions.” to its original flat floor and grass face playability standpoint,” said Smith. As well as improving the character, and recapture the strategic “The bunkers were converted from maintainability and playability value of the bunkers,” said Smith.

Renovation Wade Hampton reopens following 11-month renovation project ade Hampton Golf Club in Cashiers, , Wreopened in July following an eleven-month renovation project

overseen by Fazio Design. McIntosh David Photo: All greens have been rebuilt to USGA specification, and subsurface drainage has been re-piped and connected to the existing SubAir systems. Greens have been reseeded with Pure Distinction bentgrass, and green approaches and tees with Crystal BlueLinks bentgrass. Rough grasses have been sprayed out Fazio Design returned to the highly-ranked North Carolina club and reseeded with a three-seed blend of turf-type tall fescue. Tom Marzolf, ASGCA, senior project of the soil mix and re-piping the Greenside bunkers have been architect at Fazio Design, referenced subsurface drainage to increase the reconstructed with the Capillary the ASGCA’s Life Cycle Chart that effectiveness of the SubAir system Concrete bunker lining. details an expected lifespan of 15-30 allowed the club to update the In explaining the rationale for the years for greens. “Reconstructing bentgrass to the upright, denser Pure changes, ASGCA Past President the greens to improve the firmness Distinction seed variety.”

9 Social update

Old Elm Club is perhaps Chicago’s most under-the-radar gem, a true throwback designed by H.S. Colt and constructed by a young in 1913. An expert restoration and continuing work by Drew Rogers and the club, OE is an outrageously pure Sand Valley trip through a living golf museum. Golf Course #1462 Nekoosa, WI Jon Cavalier Possibly the best set of 5's I've @linksgems played on a C&C course Cory Lewis @clewisgolf

Great trip recently to our Twin Dolphin #ThankYouThursday Shout out to This week's Golf Course Architect of Golf Club project in Los Cabos. Front Anthony Netto and Stand Up And Play the Week is Ted Robinson, ASGCA. nine growing in quite well. Well done Foundation, for living your belief that, Pictured is his work at Whistling Rock Russ! Hole #5 here, a moderate "anybody can lead a healthy life despite Country Club in South Korea. https:// length par-4 played diagonally across physical limitations, which has been tinyurl.com/yco6ub9n @ASGCA1947 a waste-bunkered desert wash proven time and time again." #ASGCA to a wonderfully rippled fairway. @ASGCA @ThursdayThank #fredcouples, @rjhgreenkeeper @standupandplay1 ASGCA @asgca1947 Todd Eckenrode – ASGCA Home Offices Origins Golf Design @ASGCA @OriginsGolf

“The beauty is that this course does not How is GPS technology helping favour a specific player” Rees Jones and When I first walked on Minnesota golf course architects serve their Bryce Swanson discuss Bellerive CC, Valley I was struck by the shaping at clients and help golfers enjoy the host of the 2018 PGA Championship the 17th green. There was a mid-level game? Patrick Burton, ASGCA, #PGAChamp #PGAChampionship shelf between the green and the deep explains, including base mapping and #PGA100 @PGATour front bunkering. Definitely a feature I topographic surveying. @PGAChampionship @ASGCA wanted to preserve! https://tinyurl.com/ycno2xf3 https://tinyurl.com/y87vmlrn Bill Bergin, ASGCA GCA magazine ASGCA @BerginGolf @gcamagazine

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10 | By Design Renovation Vestavia reopens following renovation Photo: Golfplan Photo: by Lester George, ASGCA

Singapore club to undergo US$20 million renovation Seletar Country Club in Singapore has selected Golfplan, led by CC Vestavia Photo: Kevin Ramsey, ASGCA, and David Dale, ASGCA, to lead a renovation of its course. “With 11 holes being reimagined and reconstructed, the club saw the opportunity to sand-cap the entire course footprint, lay new irrigation, rebuild all the bunkers and regrass,” said Ramsey. 15 14 16 11 3 12 2 18 7 estavia 13 10

Photo: Jacobson Golf Design Jacobson Photo: Country Club 6 17 1 Jacobson, ASGCA, completes in Birmingham, 4 V 8 major renovation of Sunset Valley Alabama, has reopened 9 Sunset Valley Golf Course in following the completion of a Highland Park, Illinois, is preparing comprehensive renovation project 5 to reopen following a major by golf course architect Lester renovation by Rick Jacobson, George, ASGCA, of George Golf Design. ASGCA, as part of the town’s The club has renovated tees, greens, George to create GreenPrint 2024 vision. fairways, bunkers and cart paths on a master plan. “The goal was to improve all 18 holes, 10 of which were entirely “I had the privilege to work for eight infrastructure while enhancing the rebuilt, added water features, created consecutive club presidents during golf experience for all levels of a new driving range and introduced a this process,” said George. “We literally golfers,” said Jacobson. new irrigation system. New mowing looked at all options. No matter how patterns are giving the club at least 20 long the planning takes to get everything percent extra fairway width. done right, it’s all worth it in the end.” Zoysia grass has been used on Some highlights of the redesign include fairways, providing more disease the transformed par-three seventh hole, tolerance and requiring less water than which now plays over a lake on the

Photo: iCon Golf iCon Studio Photo: before. It also provides contrast with property and the drivable par-four ninth the bermuda grass rough, to give the hole. Tree clearance has opened wide Legion Memorial renovates for holes greater definition. vistas of the surrounding countryside. stormwater management Landscapes Unlimited handled Construction work began in January Todd Schoeder, ASGCA, is construction work and the Better Billy 2017. “Construction and grow-in took renovating the Chandler Egan- Bunker liner system has been used 16 months and was continuously designed municipal course in for bunkers. challenged by rain (more than Everett, Washington, USA, to help The project has been almost 12 80 inches) and subsurface rock minimize the impact of flooding. years in planning, since the club’s remediation. It is always special when “With the new bunkers and green creation of a long-range architectural I give the course back to the members complexes, we are able restore course committee in 2006. Following after a renovation, but the long process Egan’s original design aesthetic on interviews with almost a dozen only added to my strong sense of the new holes,” said Schoeder. architects, in 2011 Vestavia selected satisfaction on this project,” said George.

11 RESORT DESIGN bestThe resort Unlike a typical members club with a base of regular customers, resort golf courses cater primarily for occasional visitors. Does this necessitate a different approach to design? Toby Ingleton spoke with ASGCA members to find out.

hat exactly do we mean design associate at Nicklaus Design. when we use the term “While no one wants to get beat up on W ‘resort course’? Yes, it’s a the course on vacation, the golf needs golf course located at a resort. But to be interesting, strategic and fun. we’re usually inferring something else: “What golfer would want to return a golf experience that is appropriate to a resort where the golf was watered for those in vacation mode. down or boring? Therefore, like all And by that, read ‘easy.’ After all, if of our work, we strive to incorporate your days are spent lounging by the good variety, shot values and interest.” pool, why would you want anything Brandon Johnson, ASGCA Associate, other than pure relaxation on the of Arnold Palmer Design Company, golf course? agrees. “Players today are much But that’s not how golf course more sophisticated, interested in architects think. and appreciative of fun, creative and “We reject the notion that a resort inspiring architecture, independent of course has to be gentler or ‘dumbed whether it’s a resort, private club or down,’” says Chad Goetz, ASGCA, a public access setting,” he says.

12 | By Design Photo: Joann Dost Joann Photo: resort

The dramatic seventeenth hole at TPC Danzante Bay in Loreto, Mexico

13 RESORT DESIGN

“While resort courses may typically is in context with its surrounding private club or daily fee course that get one-time visitors, should that be a environment while focusing on caters to an established local base determining design factor? features, strategies and choices in a specific area. That wider appeal “No owner or architect in their that excite, engage and intrigue places a premium on memorability right mind would change the players. We hope this is the type of and the intangible fun factor.” complexity, quirks and nuances experience that will convert the one- “If golf is an integral part of the of the Old course at St Andrews time guest or occasional customer resort’s amenities, we feel the golf that make it an iconic piece of into a recurring one.” needs to stand out and be a true architecture, because the majority of its players only get a once-in-a- lifetime chance to play it. The golf and be “In fact, it’s just the opposite. All needs to stand out those rarely-experienced mind- in order to lure people warping features are the reason a true attraction people flock from all over the to travel there globe for their one opportunity to experience such a design.” Johnson says that exceptional Making memories attraction in order to lure people to architecture is universal. “It can While there are universal principles travel there,” says Goetz. “Golfers are and should exist in the various that apply to every golf course design, willing to spend a lot of money to operational models such as some are more pronounced when play golf courses all over the world, resorts, private clubs, public and/ laying out a resort golf course. but to go through the expense or municipal facilities. Our design “The core tenets of design are the of traveling long distances, they decisions will always be in response same,” says Nathan Crace, ASGCA. expect a quality experience and not to the site, incorporating unique “But some facets of a resort course something ordinary. Resort golf features to create a golf course that require a different approach than a should be an experience, not simply

14 | By Design PROJECT PROFILE

Photos: West Cliffs West Photos: FLC Quang Binh Dong Hoi, Vietnam Photos: Brian Curley Photos:

At the new West Cliffs course in Portugal, Cynthia Dye McGarey, ASGCA, provided tees that allow golfers of all abilities to enjoy the experience Brian Curley, ASGCA, has completed the first two courses at the another activity to check off the list “While a person on vacation at FLC Quang Binh development on during the trip.” a resort does not want to get beat the coast of the East Vietnam Sea, “The goal with a resort golf design up all day on the golf course, the on a site that is entirely white sand. is to strike a balance between the challenge should be fun, beautiful “I have described it as Pine thoughts ‘I need to go there’ versus and inspiring,” says Johnson. Valley by the beach,” says Curley. ‘I want to come back’, both of which “‘Meaningful width’ is a phrase we “The project has six kilometres of are exceedingly important,” says use often on site and in the office. coastline and the main interior Forrest Richardson, ASGCA. The ideal lines unlock different dunes rise up to 40 meters tall. “Fun is essential,” he says. “If there advantages while errant shots or “The first course promises to be is one thing I have learned from my conservative plays aren’t overly the most natural in Vietnam, and resort clients, it’s that room nights penalized but rather provide an maybe all of Asia.” are paramount to everything else. We opportunity to recover from less-than- “The desire is to create a want people to extend their stay, go ideal positions or angles by using playground of golf course design home and talk it up to their friends, slopes, a clever imagination or the variety that offers golfers a different and come back next season.” well-executed shot. experience from day to day and “If every tee shot or approach went makes the entire project a true golf A fun challenge unchallenged or was without strategic destination that stirs the soul of the “People come to resorts for relaxation purpose, while extremely playable to avid golfer who must normally tour and to unwind. The last thing we some, interest levels would plummet. the world for all these different need is a knock-down, drag-out So, variety across the board is key. experiences. Here, you get that course that causes them to cancel The endless combinations of fairway all,” he says. their tee time the following day,” says widths, degree of challenge, severity Richardson. “Let the course appear of hazards, the plethora of decisions Read more about this project in intimidating but provide a solution to make, the variety of different shots the July 2018 issue of Golf Course to get to the green that is fun—not required, sizes and placement of Architecture magazine. just penal.” features or even the contrast of flat

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16 | By Design PROJECT PROFILE SilverRock Resort La Quinta,

Arnold Palmer Design Company Photo: Jim Mandeville/Nicklaus Design Mandeville/Nicklaus Jim Photo: recently made changes to PGA Tour host course SilverRock Resort in La Quinta, California. The fourteenth, originally a long demanding par four nestled against a penal canal, was converted into a reachable par five to help make room for the resort hotel. Brandon Johnson, ASGCA Associate, says: “We shifted and realigned the green to allow for more width on the second shot and help reduce the penal nature and influence of the adjacent canal. Nicklaus Design seeks to embrace the natural surroundings, like the rugged coastline This allowed for the combination of the Cabo Del Sol Ocean Course in Mexico, in its resort designs of pin location, contour and width to profoundly influence the second surfaces to highly contoured ones will pockets on the low side. By doing shot decision-making process while make a resort course fun, memorable so, we feel the resort golfer will serving double duty to make the and worth spending one’s hard- encounter a course that offers variety hole more strategic and receptive earned cash to play.” and playability which gives each for players.” On the eleventh, the player a one-of-a kind experience team sited the new green to take Different priorities through the course’s dramatic advantage of a helping side slope “The emphasis does tend to change landscapes. Each player will enjoy to the green and a pre-existing when looking at courses played what they find initially and will want water feature. Johnson says: “A mainly by the resort golfer,” says Steve to play the course again to discover carry over water is balanced by Weisser, ASGCA, of Rees Jones, Inc. the options that present themselves ample room short and to the right “Our recently completed TPC with each round.” with the grand reward of helping Danzante Bay course in Loreto, Cynthia Dye McGarey, ASGCA, contours that funnel shots played off Mexico, is a good example. Desert of Dye Designs, adopted a similar right bank down towards green.” golf, due to the limited amount of approach at West Cliffs in Portugal, turf, can be inherently difficult for where environmental restrictions infrequent golfers. At Danzante Bay, limited the turf area that could we were encouraged to design a be used. This emphasized the course that was different from others importance of tee placement. in the Baja—one that was dramatic “For resort play I like a lot of teeing but not overly penal. options,” she says. “At West Cliffs the “We were fortunate to be given free tees are designated by . If rein to choose the land that best players tee off from the appropriate suited the holes topographically. tee they have a good experience. Also, Because of this, we were able to since this is a coastal golf course it is create angles that were challenging important that it is flexible.” from the back tees while nearly Dye McGarey also made intelligent Photos: Arnold Palmer Design Company – Brandon Johnson – Brandon Design Company Palmer Arnold Photos: eliminating forced carries as the use of angled fairways to provide tees move forward. Additionally, the width where it was needed. “I turf areas are wide, particularly in like landing areas wide,” she landing zones. says. “I prefer no blind shots on a “Each tee shot has turf bail-out areas resort course.” The result is a golf on the high sides of holes where experience that makes the most of its The eleventh (top) and fourteenth the ground contours create natural spectacular setting, and isn’t quite as holes at SilverRock Resort containment and turf swales with difficult as it looks.

17 RESORT DESIGN

PROJECT PROFILE

The Refuge Aidan BradleyPhoto: Flowood, Mississippi

Not all resort golf courses begin life as resort courses. Nathan Crace, ASGCA, is redesigning The Refuge in Flowood, Mississippi, following the decision to construct a $50 million resort hotel/conference center adjacent to the course. “To give the course a resort feel, we’re widening playing corridors and adding tees to stretch the course, in addition to new TifEagle greens and bunkers, tees, irrigation and cart paths. The course will be more The rolling hills of Monte Rei in Portugal inviting by eliminating hidden water hazards and framing holes Know your market skill level and the appetite to flirt with better and will play from 4,500 “Like all of our projects, we start the interior hazards.” to 7,045 yards, with three new by closely listening to the client’s “Golfers playing resort courses may holes to create returning nines vision and trying to understand the be visiting from across the country and give the option to play five, market,” says Goetz. “Our design or internationally and will have nine or 18 holes.” approach must then be tailored to varying degrees of skill,” says Crace. meet those needs. “Additionally, they may only get to “For example, in a more mature play the course once so the key is to market like Hawaii, we might propose make the course feel familiar from a different type of golf experience the start. We’ve all played courses for unique to the island or area. In newer the first time then thought ‘If I played markets like Vietnam, Turkmenistan, again tomorrow, I could shave five Albania or Romania we might design strokes off my score.’ the course and other facilities to help “Therefore, it’s important that a introduce the game of golf to the resort course provides proper visual country and local travelers.” cues on each tee to show how a hole is It's important that a resort course provides proper visual cues on each tee to show how a hole is played

“We may work a little harder to played (and not played). I want each limit forced carries and lost ball hole to welcome players—not repel opportunities. In one of our more them—with generous landing areas recent resort designs at Banyan for conservative tee shots and layups, Cay Resort and Golf in West Palm but make better players think a little Beach, Florida, wider fairways with by using angles and depth perception Nathan Crace, ASGCA, is bunkering and other hazards within and thinking their way around. improving playability at The Refuge, them were used where the resort Greens are more generous, and I tend as can be seen on the par-four golfer has a lot of room to hit the ball to lean toward the wider section of sixteenth hole, before (top) and and find it. In a situation like this, players, so it plays easier than it looks, during renovation work the real fun and challenge are found and golfers walk off the last hole in choosing the proper line based on wanting to come back for more.”

18 | By Design The par-five thirteenth at Arizona Grand Resort. "In resort golf it is essential to create those wonderful photos that have the ingredients of beauty, uniqueness and wow," says Forrest Richardson, ASGCA Photo: Lonna Tucker, courtesy of Forrest Richardson & Associates & of Richardson courtesy Forrest Tucker, Lonna Photo:

“Most resort courses today need didn’t evolve that way. Our goal “But in resort golf it is essential play from local golfers,” adds from the beginning was to create a to create those wonderful photos Richardson. “The smart resort destination course that suited the that have the ingredients of beauty, course design takes into account the resort’s guests. The course has a uniqueness and wow. If you fail at financial equation, making sure we fascinating and diverse set of holes, creating that, the marketing team will are creating a golf course that will but it is the drama of the seventeenth hate you forever. appeal to the golfers that will need to that motivates golfers to decide that “At Arizona Grand Resort, which fill the tee sheet, and in some cases, TPC Danzante Bay is a ‘must play.’” was among my first projects, the site this is not just the guest staying in a “From a visual standpoint, we want of the par-five thirteenth was special suite overlooking the course.” to make extra sure that the course is in so many ways. Everyone imagined beautiful,” says Goetz. “That means the tee shot from an elevated point, The wow factor embracing the natural surroundings and I will admit you got a great view The value of a hole like the par three and accenting them where possible. from there. During one of many hikes seventeenth at TPC Danzante Bay Incorporating natural features, such as around the routing I began to look (pictured on this issue’s cover) can’t the lava flows at Hualalai Golf Club in at it backwards, and that’s when be underestimated, says Weisser. Hawaii, the rugged coastline of Cabo the realization came that the drama “When we, along with developer del Sol in Mexico or the beautiful was even better looking toward the Owen Perry, found the location to rolling hills of the Algarve at Monte mountains, and to an elevated green create the seventeenth hole we knew Rei in Portugal, is critical in creating a guarded by natural bunkers etched it would become the calling card sense of place, identity and beauty.” into the hillside. Drama is essential for the resort. We don’t believe in “We never want to create a golf in resort golf—you need that shot designing a course around a single course people play once and then that places the golfer in the game well hole and the design of the course never come back,” says Richardson. before they check in to their room.”• 19 ASSOCIATE MEMBERS

New additions Richard Humphreys caught up with the new ASGCA Associate Members to find out more about their work and what ASGCA membership means to them.

he ASGCA welcomed six requirements at that time were a demonstrate to possible clients that I new Associate Members to little more North American oriented, was good enough to produce a good Tits ranks following its 2018 as well as having a few projects golf course. Annual Meeting in Houston. The new that I was doing in Asia that never “Having visited the group, I think members represent a range of firms, finished, leaving me short of the it’s a great group of professionals who from their own practices to major required numbers. are always looking for professional brands such as IMG, Greg Norman “Hearing that I had been accepted development, but also have some fun Golf Course Design and Robert as an Associate Member was very in the process. I felt the friendship of Trent Jones II Golf Course Architects. satisfying as the original process the group. We asked what membership of the started many, many years ago, so “Now I have a good feeling of not ASGCA means to them. to have finally completed and been to be so lonely in my career, I feel I “It is an honor and thrill to become accepted was a proud moment. I have a group of people and possible an Associate Member of the ASGCA,” know a fair number of the current friends, to share hits and misses with says Jeff Danner, ASGCA Associate, members and it is an honor and and who understand all aspects of a senior design associate at Greg pleasure to now be part of the same our profession. I am glad.” Norman Golf Course Design. “It has small, exclusive group within the Chris Lutzke, ASGCA Associate, a been a career goal of mine for as long golf industry. I’m looking forward to long-time designer for ASGCA Past as I can remember. I look forward to doing many more great courses with Presidents Pete and Alice Dye, both making positive contributions to the IMG in the coming years and picking ASGCA Fellows, said: “It was a long- game through the ASGCA’s many the other architects’ brains when a term goal and it was important to Pete initiatives while continuing to further strange issue comes up that needs an over the years that I apply. But it was my growth in the profession of golf out-of-the-box solution to a problem.” Alice who kept on me and had me course architecture.” Of his newly-acquired status as get the applications in, do interviews Steve Shepherdson, ASGCA a ASGCA Associate, Mexican golf and go in front of the board. Pete and Associate, a senior golf course course architect Pedro Güereca Alice were the driving force and it has design associate at IMG Golf Course Gurrola, says: “For many years, I been a great long journey. Services, says: “I had originally felt as competent as U.S. architects “My allegiance over the past 30 planned on starting the membership coming to Mexico to do golf years has always been to Pete and if I process a few years earlier, but the projects, and all the time I tried to could do it over I would not change

20 | By Design Photo: Nam Hoi An GolfAn Resort Hoi Nam Photo:

“The recently opened course at VinPearl Nam Hoi An Golf Resort, Vietnam, is my latest project. The site comprised of rolling sand dunes and some existing square, excavated water bodies that became part of the lake system through the course. The site elevation varied from two to eleven meters, ideal for constructing a course through and around these dunes.”

Steve Shepherdson, ASGCA Associate Photo: Brian Oar Photo:

“A recent project of mine was located just north of San Diego, California in a small horse community known as Valley Center. The Woods Valley course was built to blend the existing environment and also be a model for totally organic and pesticide-free maintenance practices. It is an environmentally sensitive course that is visually attractive and enjoyable to play.”

David Ginkel, ASGCA Associate

21 “I am currently working on in Wisconsin in preparation for the 2020 . The objective is to renovate all areas of the course to improve gallery movement. We are removing all the clay that was used to build the original bunkers in designated areas, then we are grading out those areas to enhance spectator views and gallery movement.”

Chris Lutzke, ASGCA Associate

“At Talis Park Golf Club in Naples, Florida, a full bunker renovation was the focus after the erosion damage caused by Hurricane Irma. Bunkers were demolished, salvaging only drainage chambers that were still suitable. Bunkers and the surrounds were reshaped, while softening steeper slopes to prevent future erosion and improve maintenance of grass faces.”

Jeff Danner, ASGCA Associate

one day. I’ve been very fortunate that my own golf landscapes, and I have ASGCA Member and serving in the the decisions I’ve made over the years Pete and Alice to thank for this next society for years to come.” have put me in this position to be phase of my career.” Mike Gorman, ASGCA Associate, a accepted into the ASGCA. I’ve always David Ginkel, ASGCA Associate, project architect at Robert Trent trusted and valued Pete’s opinion, president of Ginkel Design, said: “I Jones II Golf Architects, said: whether it was college majors or how have been in the golf course design “Ultimately, I view my new acceptance to route a golf course. business since 1990 and becoming into the ASGCA as an opportunity “Becoming a member of ASGCA an ASGCA Member has always been to learn more. It is very gratifying and having the opportunity to a professional goal. To be recognized to become a member, and I hope take everything I have learned and for my body of work after 28 years is to be able to positively contribute, experienced as an architect as well as a great honor and validates the work meet new people, and eventually design philosophies over the years I have completed over the last three participate in some of ASGCA forward will now allow me to begin creating decades. I look forward to being an thinking initiatives.”• 22 | By Design Photo: Hoiana Shores Golf Shores Club Hoiana Photo:

“Hoiana Shores is a new course currently under construction set along a dramatic coastal dunesland of Vietnam. Our goal is to create a rugged windswept fun golf experience with a lot of flexibility in the ways it can be played. Strategically it’s a very wide golf course that

Photo: Jeff Danner Photo: provide the golfer with many different avenues to play the course.”

Mike Gorman, ASGCA Associate

“I have recently worked on a project at Paraiso Residential and Country Club in Cuernavaca, Mexico, not far from the capital. The urban design of the course was for the 1,700 families within the Cuernavaca community.”

Pedro Güereca Gurrola, ASGCA

Associate Gurrola Güereca Pedro Photo:

23 EXPERT VIEW

Golf Facility Trends | Jon Last

What are golf course architects doing? In the final piece in our series from Jon Last of Sports & Leisure Research Group, we find out about the different types of projects that architects have been working on.

his is my third and final For this article, I am turning my pipes last 5-10 years (and are often article in a series based on attention to the type of projects that replaced at the same time as bunker Tthe findings of our research golf course architects are working on. sand). These are among the items program, Golf Facility Market Trend We asked the golf course architects with the shortest lifespan, which Watch, developed with the American who participated in our survey is likely to be a contributory factor Society of Golf Course Architects. (which was conducted in September to projects like these being so In the first piece we discovered 2017) to indicate which type of common for golf course architects. that a golf course renovation was projects they had been involved with Also notable is the potential savings the most coveted enhancement over the previous 24 months. in annual maintenance costs that can be made through a bunker renovation. Marc Whitney, ASGCA One effective way for a golf club to Director of Marketing, says: “One effective way for a golf club to reduce reduce annual maintenance costs annual maintenance costs is to get an expert to review its bunkers. is to get an expert to review its bunkers It’s possible that strategy can be maintained, or even improved, with fewer bunkers, and sometimes formal for guests and members of a golf Figure 1 shows that bunker work sand bunkers can be replaced by club. And in the last issue of By is the most common. Almost four landforms or other natural features Design I highlighted what our of every five architects (79%) that are less costly to maintain.” survey respondents felt were the indicated that they had been Another specific project type that most important factors for facility involved in a re-bunkering project is associated with maintenance management to pull the trigger on during that period. and resource cost savings is the a golf course renovation project; The ASGCA’s Expected Life Cycle elimination or modification of confirming the cost, upgrading Chart (available from the Resources irrigated areas, an activity that 52% infrastructure to increase its section of asgca.org) indicates of golf course architects have been longevity and, for private clubs, that bunker sand has a lifetime involved with in the past two years. member retention. of 5-7 years and bunker drainage (Download The Cost Factor via the

24 | By Design Resources section of asgca.org for more techniques for reducing Figure 1: Architects are working on a multitude of projects annual maintenance costs.) Golf course architects were involved in the following projects in the Master plan development was the two years to September 2017 second most popular type of project for golf course architects, with Re-bunkering 79% 77% having been involved with master plan work in the previous Master plan development 77% two years. By developing a master plan, a golf club has a reference Short game area development 77% point for all future changes to the golf course, ensuring that all Practice area improvements 75% work is done with a common goal in mind and allowing clubs to Green complex renovation or redesign 71% anticipate, schedule and budget for work on the golf course (for Tee box redesign 63% more information, download Master Re-design or renovation of one to three holes Planning for Golf Courses via the 62% Resources section of asgca.org). Forward tee box additions (shortening length) 61% For nearly one in four golf course Re-grading or re-shaping playable surfaces for architects, master planning is also the 60% area of business activity which has better drainage or playability generated the most revenue Total re-design or renovation of nine or more holes 52% (see Figure 2). The third and fourth most popular Elimination or modification of irrigated areas 52% types of project are short game development (77%) and practice area New course construction/new course design 49% improvements (75%), both of which are attractive for golfers that want to Mitigation of safety issues 47% work on their game and maybe don’t Reconfiguration to make land available for other uses 46% have time for a full round.

And rounding out the top five types Re-design or renovation of between four and eight holes 45% of project that golf course architects have been involved with is green Fairway redesign 45% complex redesign or renovation. This emphasizes the point I made Irrigation system replacement/re-routing 42% in the last issue of By Design, that condition of greens is the top- Backward tee box additions (increasing length) 38% ranking priority for customers. I was encouraged to find that 49% Re-design to accommodate a change in turf grass varieties 37% of golf course architects have been Clubhouse renovation or redesign 19% involved with a new golf course design and construction in the past two years, and new course work is a top revenue earner for 13% of golf course architects. This may Figure 2: Which projects provide the most revenue? be a far cry from the golf course Type of projects ranked as the number one revenue earner by golf course architects construction boom of the 1980s, but it’s a positive sign for the industry Master plan development 24% that so many architects continue to have new golf course design work Re-bunkering 14% among their projects. • New course construction/new course design 13% Jon Last is founder and President of Sports & Total re-design or renovation of nine or more holes 8% Leisure Research Group, Practice area improvements 7% a full-service marketing research consultancy.

25 FIVE TO FINISH

The golf course will be used as a vocational rehabilitation work site, offering veterans the opportunity to learn new skills

Troy Vincent, ASGCA

s a native of Augusta, round! Over the years I have come If you could change or add one , golf has long been to expect less and just try to enjoy rule, what would it be? A in the blood for Troy Vincent, the course and camaraderie. I tend The most recent changes in the rules ASGCA. Having graduated from The to spend more time at the practice were good and feel they were well University of Georgia with a degree range than out on the course. received. I would like to see the R&A in Landscape Architecture, he initially and USGA address the ongoing worked for golf course architect Which three people would make debate regarding limits on the golf Gene Bates, ASGCA Associate, and up your dream fourball? ball. The advances that have been then spent fifteen years working Wow, there are so many people made in technology, from clubs to throughout the world for Nicklaus that I would enjoy playing a round ball, have taken the game to another Design. In 2009 he established his of golf with, but I would have to level and greatly affect the courses own firm, Vincent Design, and he also say Arnold Palmer. He was such that we design or redesign. It is works with two-time major winner a great ambassador for not only difficult to make the game fun when and Ryder Cup captain Tony Jacklin. the game but from a business the strategy of many great courses has perspective as well. I would choose become inferior, due to the distance How is your game? Donald Ross, one of the founding many players are hitting the ball. I really don’t have the opportunity fathers of golf course architecture. to play as much golf as I would like, I would be really interested in his What project are you currently in large part due to a back injury. It views on the game today and how working on? seems the older I become, the longer design and construction techniques Most of our business these days it takes for me to recover from a have changed. I’d also invite Ben consists of renovation and redesign. Crenshaw, who is an incredible We currently have several projects golfer and historian of golf course in various stages, particularly in the architecture, which is apparent from southeast, and are also providing the many great courses he consulting services on two projects has designed. out west. But the one I am most Photo: Troy Vincent Photo: Troy excited about is the Augusta What is your favorite hole in golf? Municipal Golf Course, originally Like many golf course architects, designed by David Ogilvie in 1928. I have had the opportunity to see We have teamed up with The Warrior many great courses and it would be Alliance to completely renovate the nearly impossible to pick just one course from top to bottom. What hole! But growing up in Augusta, makes this project so special is that Georgia, it would be remiss of me during the construction, grow-in, not to select the thirteenth hole at maintenance and daily operations, the Augusta National Golf Club. Having golf course will be used as a vocational had the opportunity to play the rehabilitation work site, offering course a number of times, I would veterans the opportunity to learn new say it is one of the best holes from skills. The end result will be a very Casamar Golf Club, San Carlos, Panama tee to green. unique golf course for the area.• 26 | By Design SPONSORS

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