That was the official report. In reality it could be half or more.
A Golf Course News survey of golf course architects discovered that 42.8% of those polled felt it was getting difficult to find qualified golf course builders for their projects. Golf Course News (USA), November 1999
My guess is they polled fairly well known architects. And this in America where there are 25 million golfers and 17,000 golf courses. What about the remainder of the projects? What about pioneering countries where most building courses have scant knowledge?More than fifty years earlier in America it wasn't polled, but it was no different:
...half the time the builders of new courses have no ideas concerning the character of the holes or their distribution, and without hesitation put this squarely up to the architect... A.W. Tillinghast, (1874-1942)
And won't be any different in another 50-years.Even with a "qualified builder", the developer would be best served with an architect leading construction. It's imperative in developing nations.
Tony Ristola
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