Questions you'd like to ask the Architects.

[Will E]

I'm going to do my best to try to attend a seminar on golf course design on the 23rd and 24th.
The speakers will be Rich Brogan, Tom Fazio, Peter Kyros, Brent Schultz, Brian Silva, Richard Singer, Bobby Weed,  and Mike Wooten.
If I am able to attend is there anything you'd like me to try to find out? This could be real fun.

[Tom Doak]

I've got a question, Shooter.  Who are half those guys?  I thought I knew [or had heard of] most of the people in the business.

[Tom Doak]

P.S.  If people have questions they'd like to submit for Archipalooza Two in May, I'll try to fit some of the best of them into the discussion.  General questions only, please:  not Brad Klein's "What were you thinking, Art?"

[Will E]

First question comes from Mr.Shooter-
"who in the hell are half of you guys?"
I have the same thoughts Tom.
I will let you know when I find out.

[Tom Fazio]

Tom Doak -

I got my start in the business tagging along with my uncle.  Eventually, I branched out on my own, and now specialize in construction budgets whose scale dwarfs some third world economies.  You may have seen my recent interview on the Golf Channel, where I discussed my most recent project - "restoring" Augusta National by adding 50 yards onto every hole.  

[Patrick_Mucci]

TEPaul, Tom MacWood, and  Tommy Naccarato,

You should be jumping all over this post, if you are sincere in what you posted on other threads.

I rest my case with this fellows post !

[Slag_Bandoon]

I'd like to know if there might be a swing toward other kinds of greens construction besides USGA style and if they think we may see a return to hard and fast turf conditions and the reintroduction of luck/bad luck.  
  Also, their thoughts on overwatering and design elements that make watering necessary to make a course playable.  e.g. greens tucked behind water that require the aerial game.  
  Also, are convex fairways passe' in the design world?  I'd like to see more, myself.  
  Is the ground game forgotten from design because the pros don't use it?  
  Is the higher awareness of golf course design by the general public putting more pressure on designers to deliver interesting layouts?
  etc. . . (for now)
  
  

[Craig_Rokke]

I always enjoy hearing what influences have helped galvanize
an architect's personal design style. What importance did
childhood golf, travel experiences, book reading and architectural apprenticeships have on an architect's architectural style? Also, does GCA.com have any influence whatsoever?  

[George Pazin]

Patrick -

The silence with respect to one bozo's comments speaks volumes more than any 5 pages of argumentation could.

[TEPaul]

Pat:

Hadn't read any of this topic until now. Looked at your post for awhile wondering what you were referring to and I guess it must be the post above yours from TomF; a post like that is unfortunate, as always, and for some reason I thought anonymous posting was much harder to do with this new Golfclubatlas format--guess not that much harder though.

I don't want to see it anymore than you do but I suppose we can't forget that the Internet is a super free world and nobody can control it! Best policy, I think, is to just ignore it completely--if anybody let's an anonymous poster have it they generally just come back and lash back and it get's ugly for a time. Best to just ignore it--that's probably the last thing an anonymous poster wants to see.