American Society of Golf Course Architects

So that was that was probably my closest encounter with Dallas from being on the golf course.

And that same day, the executive committee of the ASGCA had Arnold Palmer in their group.

They were honoring Arnold with the Donald Ross Award.

And that's a pretty cool do to say you you played game and all with Arnold Palmer.

So we hold events, different, you know, we were Jasper last year.

We did a big meeting this past fall with the ASGCA, which I'm also a member, so I helped coordinate with Doug Carrick.

Um, this event where we visited the archives, visited a bunch of Stanley Thompson courses, played them.

So just to have people have access to it and get some appreciation for that, that history and those wonderful courses that he was, that he was able to gift us with.

The same would happen in landscape architecture.

Well, that's not there in golf architecture.

The ASGCA does that for its members, but that's not a requirement.

You know, you sort of attend those meetings and it's not a set requirement to do it.

He shares more about the Railway Golf Club, a new nine-hole golf course, and provides insight into his illustrations and how they come together.

Scott also discusses his involvement with the ASGCA, the software he uses, and how he designs courses that challenge low handicap players while remaining enjoyable for the everyday golfer.

He explains the important role the golf course superintendent plays throughout the design process.

This was a groundbreaking conversation, and it was an honor having Scott on the show.

Tell me more about the American society of golf course architects.

Say that five times real fast.

Let's just say ASGCA and your affiliation with that organization.

Sure.

I'm Guy Cipriano.

This is episode number 124 of the Tartan Talks podcast, our monthly conversation with an American Society of Golf Course Architects member.

And joining us is somebody who's been on the Tartan Talks podcast multiple times, Forrest Richardson.

Forrest just released his sixth book.

So the short course movement, the alternative course movement, things like pop stroke and putting courses, miniature golf, simulators, pop golf, all of these things are playing into a change in society, a change in social needs of people.

They're not always wanting the five hour, four and a half hour experience.

You recently attended the American Society of Golf Course Architects meeting in Nashville.

How much discussion is there about sustainability when you and your golf course architecture peers get together?

Sports Illustrated named her as one of the 10 most influential women in golf.

She's a leading female golf course architect, former president of the American Society of Golf Course Architects, and Jan Beljan is back with us today here on Tea to Green, The Golf Show.

It's early Sunday morning.

The sun is coming up.

It's been something like five years since we last had Jan Bell Jan on the show.

Jan is one of the probably the most prominent female golf architect in the world.

She's a former president of the American Society of Golf Course Architects.

She owns her own golf architectural firm in Jupiter, Florida, and she's going to be joining us today later in the hour here on Tea to Green.

did, Al.

Most recently, beginning of last week, I flew to Nashville, and that's where the annual... meeting of the American Society of Golf Course Architects took place.

Goes to a different city every year.

And Nashville was a very fun, fine host.

I, um, Links Magazine does its own now, and, um, we have ceded the expertise beyond us, uh, mere mortals to golf course architects.

Uh, so, uh, I think probably that is a, you know, I'm biased because I'm editor of Links Magazine, but we think we have the most authoritative, uh, knowledgeable, uh, list because we use only members of the, uh, American Society of Golf Course Architects, European Golf Course Architects, and the Australians.

Um, that said, um, it's arguable that, um, the list that Golf or Golf Digest has, uh, are more authoritative simply because they have more people, more eyeballs, um, not just seeing golf courses, but finding them, you know, out of the way and inspecting them.

And, um, yeah, it's, uh, it, it's, it's hard to say.

I, I, I remember, I remember a couple years ago, and I can't remember the guy's name.

It was one of my first ASGCA meetings.

It was a winter meeting, so it was at the golf industry show, and there was a guy who does all these sta- statistical studies.

He's out of Texas.