BROOKFIELD, Wis. – ASGCA Past President Robert Trent Jones, Jr., founder of Robert Trent Jones II Golf Course Architects based in Palo Alto, California, has been chosen as the 2024 recipient of the ASGCA Donald Ross Award. The award, given annually since 1976, is...
ASGCA Past President Bill Amick is noted for not only his impressive career as a golf course architect, but also as a writer with a talent for sharing his thoughts in verse. Here are some of his views on rolling back the golf ball and the advantages of shorter...
BROOKFIELD, Wis. – Hunki Yun has been named executive director of the American Society of Golf Course Architects (ASGCA) and ASGCA Foundation. An award-winning journalist and a long-time staff member and administrator with the United States Golf Association (USGA),...
Neil Haworth, ASGCA, died June 17, 2024, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He was age 63. A native of Edmonton, Alberta, Haworth earned a bachelor of Landscape Architecture from University of Guelph in Ontario. In 1985 he joined the firm of Graham Cooke and Associates....
Plans to enhance the playing experience at Darley and Belleisle golf courses (South Ayrshire, Scotland) have begun with the appointment of Jeff Danner, ASGCA, (Pangaea Golf Architecture). Danner and Stuart Rennie and Jeff Danner are leading the project in...
Applications are being accepted for the 2024 Wadsworth Scholar Program. This program will select two college students of junior rank or higher, as well as two non-students showing an interest and aptitude for golf course development to receive a cash award and attend...
The Board of Directors at Travis Pointe Country Club in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has retained Christopher Wilczynski, ASGCA (C.W. Golf Architecture), to develop a golf course master plan to improve and help reposition the private, member-owned club. Established in 1977,...
The renovation work at the newly reimagined Killearn Club, a private golf club in Tallahassee, Florida, is now in its second year with the construction of the nine-hole Clover Course (formerly the North/Narrows course), well underway from Chris Wilczynski, ASGCA (C.W....
American Society of Golf Course Architects (ASGCA) leaders fully support H.R. 7228, the Bolstering Intellectual Rights against Digital Infringement Enhancement Act (BIRDIE Act). The bill would update the Architectural Works Copyright Protection Act of 1990, which...
A visit to the GCSAA Conference and Trade Show illustrated to “Forbes” writer Candace Oehler the industry-wide commitment to caring for natural resources Also highlighted was efforts “to supporting diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives,”...
