Name: Jaeger Kovich
Age: 23
Hometown: NYC
School: Just graduated from Hobart College in Geneva, NY (Architecture major/Studio Art minor)
Profession: Amateur golf architect / student / caddy / ice hockey coach / golf course whack job!
Work: Quaker Ridge Golf Club (grounds crew/caddy/architect/historian)
Mungeam Cornish Golf Design (intern)
Winged Foot, Ridgewood, Bethpage Black, Pelham, Powelton Club (Caddy)
Southern Hills (future)
Earliest golf memory: getting kicked off my grandfathers development course when i was around 6
Top golfing experiences: golf trip to UK as graduation present
first time I learned my design for Woodway CC short course/practice area would be built
first day as an intern for MCGD
Old Mac preview w/Doak followed by dinner with Doak, Urbina, Coore and Bahto
completing study of Tillinghast design strategy
Intro to arch: designed a hypothetical 9-hole course on the campus of my high school (millbrook)
Found GCA: while working for Mungeam Cornish Golf Design thanks to Tim Gerrish (dont know why it took me so long to do this intro!)
I've been playing golf for about 9 years now. Got seriously into the game jr. year of highschool when i quit playing lax to join the golf team. Growing up in nyc, I was always in search of the best public courses in the metro area since there are none in manhattan. My sr. year in highschool my mom bought me Tom Fazio's book and i proposed designing a golf course on our campus for my senior project. Received honors on the project. Went on an internship "abroad" program in boston jr. year in college and begged my way into a job working at MCGD, and instantly fell in love with GCA.
Ever since (last 2 years): I have been posting here regularly. Read every book on gca i could get my hands on/afford! Traveled to England, Scotland, Bandon, Kiawah, and Pinehurst. Got to meet G. Hanse, B, Coore, J. Urbina, T. Doak, J. Bradley. Played over 100 different golf courses. Wrote a thesis on Tillinghast design. And have been begging my way onto every great course and writing to every golf architect I can think of looking for my next chance to make it as a gca!... which is why I am currently learning how to operate bulldozers and backhoes as well as learning chinese!
... I love this website and enjoy learning from the people on the site, so thanks!