Featured architects
Robert Trent Jones Sr.
The architect who built the championship test
- Born
- 1906, England
- Years active
- c. 1930s–1990s
- Works
- 400+ across 40 countries
- Era
- Modern Era
Why the name endures
Jones invented the profession as a full-time discipline, studying agronomy and design at Cornell on a self-designed course of study. His remodels toughened US Open venues into what he called 'a hard par and an easy bogey', and his global work took American design abroad.
Design principles
- A hard par and an easy bogey
- Long tees to stretch a hole for every class of player
- Heroic carries framed by water and sand
Surviving work
Courses to see
Valderrama
Sotogrande, Spain
Continental Europe's first Ryder Cup host and Jones's favourite of his own work.
Peachtree Golf Club
Georgia, USA
Built with Bobby Jones; vast greens and multiple tees on every hole.
Ballybunion (Cashen)
County Kerry, Ireland
Dunes-land routing he called the finest piece of ground he ever worked.