PD: I’m always amazed when people have an outside contractor come in and develop a golf course and don’t control it. You can spend a lot of money building a golf course but if you have people on site they can change it three or four times and it doesn’t escalate the cost either of maintenance or construction.
Interview Pete Dye, http://www.caesarea.org.il/download/files/1126gca_pete_dye_interview.pdf
That's the value of an architect leading construction.
You have the time to perfect each feature like a sculpture working a piece of clay. It is faster and more cost effective.
The ultimate arbiter, the architect, can seize every opportunity to improve the work as it is being built.
He can spends weeks or months thinking about features and holes to be built, compare them to holes constructed, and refine them before a shovel of dirt is moved. And then refine them after the dirt has begun moving.
Building golf courses does cost a lot of money, and nobody can read the architect's vision by peering at his plans.
Plans are raw data that cannot speak. The best courses are the product of thought, and conversations, with the plans used as the most basic guideline.
After that, leadership is used to monitor continuous opportunities and improvement.
It is amazing how many investors settle for minuscule construction oversight (the most costly and permanent design phase) for their investment of millions.
Tony Ristola
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