There are many excellent course designers around today, but relatively few people in modern golf who can say they’ve made it to the very top of the industry. It is a difficult avenue to go down, primarily because you have to build up a reputation for outstanding work over a long period of time. Tom Doak and Gil Hanse are two obvious examples and, unquestionably, the design team of Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw fits into this category too.
The high standard of their work in terms of creativity, aesthetics, design and overall quality means they have built a reputation which demands huge respect from the golfing community. You will obviously have heard of Crenshaw because of his stellar playing career, but a lesser-known yet equally important part of their success is Coore, a man who became fascinated with golf course architecture from an early age.
“I grew up in North Carolina about an hour and a half away from Pinehurst,” Coore explains. “My next door neighbour played golf, so as a small kid I would caddie for him. He would hand me a golf club and say ‘have fun with this’.”
Coore would later go to Wake Forest college, an institution synonymous with great golf, not just in terms of former players like Arnold Palmer, Curtis Strange and Webb Simpson but also because it lies right next to Old Town Golf Club. It was this course, along with Pinehurst, that stoked Coore’s interest in architecture.
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