category_2.id,category_2.ts,category_2.title,category_2.description,category_2.name,category_2.website,category.id,category.ts,category.title 1,"2018-07-19 02:16:03","Pete Dye","Paul (“Pete”) Dye, born December 29, 1925 in Urbana, Ohio to Paul and Elizabeth Dye, is a legend in the field of golf course design and construction throughout the expanding world of golf. Considered in many circles to be the most influential golf course architect of the last five decades, Pete is now in his 80’s and still designing golf courses. Pete comes by his career naturally. His father designed and built a nine-hole golf course on his mother’s farm in Urbana, Ohio, and Pete grew up playing and working on this course. He won the Ohio State High School Championship and was medalist in the Ohio State Amateur.","Pete Dye",http://www.dyedesigns.com/,4,"2018-03-23 01:21:11","Top Architects" 2,"2018-07-19 02:16:12","A.W. Tillinghast","A.W. Tillinghast- The Philadelphia native, who drew his inspiration from his time spent with Old Tom Morris in St Andrews, especially left his mark in the Northeast. In the New York metropolitan area alone, the man they called “Tilly” left his mark on a few modern day games, including Baltusrol Golf Club, Bethpage Black, Quaker Ridge, Scarsdale, Sleepy Hollow Country Club, Somerset and Winged Foot.","A.W. Tillinghast",https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._W._Tillinghast,4,"2018-03-23 01:21:11","Top Architects" 3,"2018-07-19 02:16:48","Donald Ross","Donald Ross was born in Dornoch, Scotland, but became a citizen of and spent most of his adult life in the United States. He was involved in designing or redesigning around 400 courses from 1900–1948, laying the foundation for America's golf industry","Donald Ross",https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Ross_(golfer),4,"2018-03-23 01:21:11","Top Architects" 4,"2018-07-19 02:16:55","Robert Trent Jones","Robert Trent Jones, Sr. did not invent golf course architecture, it only seems that way. In a career that spanned nearly 70 years, Jones built or rebuilt some 400 courses in 45 states in the U. S. and 35 countries worldwide, with more than three dozen of them having played host to national or international championships. Jones made an art form of heroic architecture, institutionalizing the risk-reward shot in modern courses. With his oft-quoted philosophy to make every hole a hard par but an easy bogey, he also had a profound impact on tournament golf. Jones built or remodeled some of the most muscular courses the pros have ever faced, including Firestone, Hazeltime, Spyglass Hill, Baltusrol and Oak Hill.","Robert Trent Jones",https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Trent_Jones,4,"2018-03-23 01:21:11","Top Architects" 5,"2018-07-19 02:17:04","Tom Doak","Tom Doak has 4 courses ranked among the top 100 in the world according to the ""Top 100 Courses in the World"" list compiled by Golf Magazine. These include Pacific Dunes in Oregon, Ballyneal in Colorado,Barnbougle Dunes in Tasmania and Cape Kidnappers in New Zealand. Doak lives in Michigan.","Tom Doak",https://www.renaissancegolf.com/,4,"2018-03-23 01:21:11","Top Architects" 6,"2018-07-19 02:17:13","Tom Fazio","Throughout his 50+ years in golf course design, Tom Fazio and his staff of talented designers have been recognized for creating award-winning courses throughout the United States. No living designer has more credits on Golf Digest's list of America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses and Golfweek's collection of America's Best. The Golf Digest poll for Best Modern Day Golf Course Architect was discontinued after Tom claimed the award three consecutive times, and he has also received The Old Tom Morris Award from the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America.","Tom Fazio",http://www.faziodesign.com/,4,"2018-03-23 01:21:11","Top Architects" 7,"2018-07-19 02:17:20","Jack Nicklaus","Nicklaus Design, the global golf course design firm founded by golf legend Jack Nicklaus, is widely regarded as the world's leading design firm. With a philosophy of working closely with clients, enhancing the natural environment, and creating courses that are both challenging and enjoyable for players of all levels, the company has 415 courses open for play in 45 countries and 39 states. Of those golf courses, Jack Nicklaus has been involved in the design of 300 courses. At least 70 Nicklaus Design courses have been ranked by major industry publications like Golf Digest, Golfweek, GOLF Magazineand Travel & Leisure Golf, in various national or international Top-100 lists, and no fewer than 150 Nicklaus Design courses have hosted a combined total of 1,050 professional golf tournaments worldwide or significant national amateur championships, including events on the PGA TOUR, the PGA TOUR Champions, the LPGA Tour and the Web.com Tour, among others.","Jack Nicklaus",http://www.nicklaus.com/,4,"2018-03-23 01:21:11","Top Architects" 8,"2018-07-19 02:17:26","Coore & Crenshaw","Admiration and respect for the classic golf courses of the ""Golden Age of Architecture"" inspired Ben Crenshaw and Bill Coore to establish the firm of Coore and Crenshaw Inc. in 1986. Theirs is an architectural firm based upon the shared philosophy that traditional, strategic golf is the most rewarding, and the creation of courses that present this concept with the greatest artistry is the ultimate goal. They have blended their personal experience and admiration for the classical courses of Ross, Mackenzie, Macdonald, Maxwell, and Tillinghast to create a style uniquely their own.","Coore & Crenshaw",http://www.cooreandcrenshaw.com/,4,"2018-03-23 01:21:11","Top Architects" 9,"2018-07-19 02:17:38","William Flynn","William Flynn was a prominent golf course architect during the early part of the 20th century. Among Flynn's most notable work are the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club on Long Island, Cherry Hills Country Club, Lancaster Country Club, and his work at the Merion Golf Club. Flynn was born in Milton, Massachusetts. He graduated from Milton High School, where he had played interscholastic golf and competed against his friend Francis Ouimet. He laid out his first course at Heartwellville, Vermont, in 1909 and was then hired to assist Hugh Wilson with completion of the East Course at Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pennsylvania. He worked as the construction supervisor at Merion and remained on as superintendent for a short time, helping establish the course.","William Flynn",https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Flynn_(golfer),4,"2018-03-23 01:21:11","Top Architects" 10,"2018-07-19 02:17:41","Alister MacKenzie","Alister MacKenzie-was a British golf course architect whose course designs span four continents. Originally trained as a surgeon, MacKenzie served as a civilian doctor with the British army during the Boer War where he first became aware of the principles of camouflage. During World War I, MacKenzie made his own significant contributions to military camouflage, which he saw as closely related to golf course design. He is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame. He designed more than 50 golf courses including 3 that remain in the 2016 top 10 golf courses in the world, Augusta National Golf Club and Cypress Point Club in the USA, and Royal Melbourne Golf Club (West Course) in Australia.","Alister MacKenzie",https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alister_MacKenzie,4,"2018-03-23 01:21:11","Top Architects" 11,"2018-07-19 02:17:52","Gil Hanse","Gil Hanse is an American golf course architect. Hanse, along with his business partner Jim Wagner, was selected to design the Rio 2016 Olympic Golf Course, the first Olympic venue to host golf since 1904. In 1993 Hanse founded Hanse Golf Course Design. His longtime design partner Jim Wagner joined the firm in 1995. Friend and golf historian Geoff Shackelford has also assisted in the design of several projects. He redesigned The Course at Sewanee, in Sewanee, Tennessee, in 2013.","Gil Hanse",http://www.hansegolfdesign.com/,4,"2018-03-23 01:21:11","Top Architects"