Feature Interview

GolfClubAtlas.com has conducted well over one hundred feature interviews with people in the golf industry and they arranged here chronologically for your perusal, from our most recent down to our first one with Tom Doak in June, 1999. A new interview is posted in the first week of each month.

The common subject matter always pertains in some manner to golf course architecture but the people who have been interviewed are quite diverse. There are architects with over fifty projects to their name and architects with less than five. There are well known authors and people who have penned just one book. There are past USGA presidents, present green keepers, PGA professionals (one of whom won five Open Championships!). Included as well are painters and photographers who have their own unique perspective of looking at golf courses. We even have one with master architect George Thomas!

On a more serious note, several of the men kind enough to do a Feature Interview are no longer with us, much to our and the game’s loss but their words and thoughts are forever captured here. We hope you enjoy these archives.

This Month’s Featured Interview with Tom Doak

How history remembers Tom Doak will be interesting. Given the pace he is on of building world class courses over the past decade, he may will be remembered as one of the top five architects of all time. Whether or not that happens depends on what kind of sites he gets going forward, as the quality of the work will no doubt be there. Of even greater certainty perhaps though is the fact that he will be remembered among golf course architecture’s greatest writers/critic, joining such men as George Thomas, Max Behr and Alister MacKenzie. In fact, given the amount of written word that Tom is leaving behind (here, through his books and magazine articles), he might will finish at the top of the heap. The point is inescapable: via both his in-the-dirt work and his writing, he is exerting a major influence on the direction of golf course architecture around the world, and we are all the better for it.

Tom Doak, June 2009

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