Our Design Philosophy

Golf is a game to be enjoyed. To be fully enjoyed it must provide a zest for those who play. Much of this zest comes for many from the jousting between the course and the player. It’s a two-way battle for supremacy. A course that provides dramatic drives across unfathomable places of peril, the opportunity for redemption from floral penitentiary’s, interest peaking pitches from undulating lies to rolling greens, and putting greens that reward those with the artful skill to negotiate slopes is an engaging golf course full of excitement.

We want our golf courses to be expressive places where players can be rewarded for their industry, bravery and resilience. They are places where the wise win over the wistful and the short but skilful prevail over the long hitting wild. Occasionally a good courses will ask a players’ ego to write a cheque their body can’t cash, but their will always be another route to play, and the thrill is in the suspense between the commencement of the decision and the knowledge of the result. And while their will always be an important element of luck in golf, our courses reward the skilful more than the lucky.

If we apply ourselves to the art of designing strategic courses of beauty and substance, golfers will be enriched by the playing experience and want to return. Any golf course that entices golfers back to play is certain to be a success for their owners.

AWARDS

Excellence In Compliance Award Winner Winner
Excellence in Compliance Award
Royal Wellington Golf Club

 

PUBLICATIONS

The Evolution of the Old Course St Andrews
The Evolution of the Old Course
by Scott Macpherson

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Golf's Royal Clubs Golf's Royal Clubs
by Scott Macpherson

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TESTIMONIALS

"During both the design and construction phases their can-do attitude to problem solving was refreshing".

Ben O'Malley, Millbrook Country Club, NZ