About

My journey into golf course architecture began with a slow moving restoration of the Meadow Club, in California. The comprehensive process and scope of the project connected to my artistic sensibilities, providing a lens with which to see broad landscapes, and an opportunity to study how to design and communicate with the land itself.  The project was a deep dive into Alister MacKenzie’s first U.S. design and the philosophies that shaped Golden Age golf course architecture.  While maintaining, studying, and rebuilding the golf course over a five year period, it served as a master’s class in golf course architecture, and functioned as a slingshot into my future.

Their design/build process taught me to see, respect, and study the nuances of the land where we create- and how golf course architecture sings most beautifully while incorporating those nuances.  The creator of that nuance, nature itself, has become the primary tool in my tool box, providing inspiration and the very palette from which many of my own creations stem.

While my experience building and maintaining golf courses has provided me with methods and solutions from which to draw, it is a deep and sustainable relationship with nature’s rhythms that I seek in my work.

Following the completion of the restoration, I earned my Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture at UC Davis.  Those formative years taught me how to interpret landscapes even further, while also giving me the tools to communicate my ideas graphically. My perspective on the fundamentals of golf course design evolved greatly during this time, instilling a desire to push the art and science of architecture, together, into more sustainable golf course models.

Learning the craft of golf course architecture from hands-on practitioners Mike DeVries, Gil Hanse, and Jim Wagner provided me numerous opportunities to practice and learn golf course design and construction at some of the greatest golf courses in the world.

Great golf can only be had through the coalition of talented teams. I value the relationships I’ve built with superintendents, designers, and construction teams over the years and seek more collaboration with others in the future to create and manage timeless, low impact, regenerative golf courses.