Description
Plan and design golf courses and practice facilities from concept through opening, shaping land to create strategic, safe, and sustainable play while coordinating drainage, irrigation, planting, and construction with stakeholders.
- • Prepare routing plans, grading plans, and hole-by-hole drawings and renderings.
- • Collaborate with civil engineers, irrigation designers, agronomists, and clubhouse architects to optimize playability, safety, sustainability, and aesthetics.
- • Specify drought-tolerant turfgrasses and native plantings to reduce water consumption and maintenance.
- • Design reclaimed-water and rainwater capture systems and integrate efficient irrigation layouts.
- • Select durable, sustainable materials for bunkers, paths, bridges, and site furnishings.
- • Confer with club owners, boards, superintendents, and engineers to define program, budget, and schedule.
- • Prepare construction documents, technical details, specifications, phasing, and cost estimates.
- • Analyze topography, soils, hydrology, wind, and sun to guide routing, drainage, and turf selection.
- • Develop proposals, portfolios, and presentations to secure new projects.
- • Inspect shaping, greens, bunkers, drainage, and irrigation during construction to ensure quality and compliance.
- • Present designs to permitting authorities, HOAs, and community stakeholders.
- • Integrate existing landforms, vegetation, views, and water bodies into strategic and playable hole designs.
- • Manage shapers, surveyors, and contractors to maintain quality control and schedule.
- • Research turf varieties, irrigation technology, bunker systems, and maintenance innovations.
- • Conduct site walks and surveys to document wetlands, habitats, access, utilities, and cultural resources.
- • Develop turfgrass, native habitat, tree management, and landscape buffer plans.
- • Collaborate with estimators and contractors to price earthworks, irrigation, and features.
- • Prepare 3D models, fly-throughs, and phasing graphics to communicate course growth and play over time.
- • Provide grow-in support, post-opening evaluations, and recommendations for refinements.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
