Golf Course Landscapes
The main goal of a well designed golf course landscape is to enhance the golfing experience by providing a backdrop for the golf holes and assisting in creating strategy for play. A richly designed landscape will complement the overall style of the course, whether it be a links course, mountain course, or a traditional design.
"For me, nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces."
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Toscana Country Club Indian Wells, California
Architect: Jack Nicklaus - Signature Design
Toscana Country Club is an integrated golf and residential community featuring two distinctively different golf courses. The colorful "traditional", lush landscape of the south course contrasts drastically, with the textural, "naturalized" landscape of the north course.
*With HSA Design Group -
Boulder Creek Golf Club Boulder City, Nevada
Architect：Mark Rathert - Rathert International Golf Design
The landscape at Boulder Creek was designed in an arid "Desert Links" style to provide a water efficient, links style landscape. Mexican Fan Palms and colorful shrubs were incorporated in specialized areas to create an oasis effect to the environment.
*With HSA Design Group. -
Desert Willow Golf Resort Palm Desert, California
Architect：Hurdzan Fry Golf Course Architects
1997 Award of Excellence – American Society of Landscape Architects
Judges comments: "Reflects a high level of responsibility to the environment while providing an attractive, challenging sports experience"
*With HSA Design Group. -
Red Rock Country Club Las Vegas, Nevada
Architect：Arnold Palmer - Palmer Course Design Group
The landscape throughout the golf course utilizes a native and naturalized palette to enhance the native desert and provide a colorful, textural setting. The landscape extends throughout the entire community with more lush, colorful plants used in the common area landscape, and the residential development.
*With HSA Design Group. -
Cottonwood Country Club Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Architect：Bill Newis - GPEC Consulting
Cottonwood was developed next to the Bow River south of Calgary. An existing tree farm provided opportunity to utilize native and naturalized plant material to create definition throughout the course.
*With GPEC Consulting Ltd. -
The Norman Course – PGA West La Quinta, California
Architect：Greg Norman Golf Course Design
Native grasses, shrubs and wildflowers were introduced throughout the golf course to create a landscape reminiscent of as "links-style" Scottish course.
*With HSA Design Group. -
Rancho La Quinta – Jerry Pate Course La Quinta, California
Architect：Jerry Pate Design
A lush and efficient landscape was designed at the Pate Course to provide a water efficient, beautiful landscape which emphasized the beauty of the Coachella Valley.
*With HSA Design Group. -
Priddis Greens Golf and Country Club Priddis, Alberta, Canada
Architect：Bill Newis - GPEC Consulting Ltd.
Cut into the foothills of the Canadian Rockies the landscape emphasizes the natural beauty of the region, while promoting views from the residential enclaves within the project.
*With GPEC Consulting Ltd. -
The Hamptons Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Architect：Bill Newis - GPEC Consulting Ltd.
The Hamptons was designed as an integrated golf course residential community. The plant material and landscape was selected and designed to emphasize both the golfing experience and the views from the adjacent community.
*With GPEC Consulting Ltd -
Granite Pointe Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
Architect：Bill Newis - GPEC Consulting Ltd.
The course is narrow, and water is at a premium, so naturalized grasses and plants were selected to emphasize reestablishment of a natural forest edge while maintaining playability.
*With GPEC Consulting Ltd -
The Coloniale Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Architect：Bill Newis - GPEC Consulting Ltd.
The Coloniale is an integrated golf course residential community. The plant material and landscape was selected and designed to emphasize both the golfing experience and the views from the adjacent community.
*With GPEC Consulting Ltd