20 Years and Counting: Online Golf Course Design Seminar Remains Popular
Someone once asked: “Do you like teaching more than golf course design?”The answer: I enjoy teaching and golf course design equally.In 1997 I started co-teaching an overseas golf course design seminar through Michigan State University each fall, and it...
Change – Golf Courses Should Plan for the Inevitable
Change is a tough topic for some people. Whether the change involves a person, place or thing, many people just don’t like change. Changes to your club’s golf course fit this universal principle, and change on golf courses comes from different areas: • The game itself...
Why They Call Me “Renovation Ray”
Why They Call Me ‘Renovation Ray’ In my career I’ve equally embraced the two areas of discipline that really comprise golf course architecture – new 18-hole design, and renovation, restoration and remodeling. From the very beginning, we embraced going on the road or...
Humbled, Honored and Blessed by Awards
Humbled, Honored and Blessed by Awards By now you have learned our renovation work at Water’s Edge Golf Club in Fremont, Mich., was recognized by The American Society of Golf Course Architects (ASGCA) with a 2018 Design Excellence Recognition Award. It is the fourth...
2018: Quite A Year
2018: Quite A Year It was a great 2018 at Raymond Hearn Golf Course Designs with multiple remodeling/restoration and renovation projects throughout the USA and a few exciting international projects, too. Restoration, remodeling and renovation projects at private...