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The art of design

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Ted Robinson Sr.

The former land planner made his mark with tough greens and majestic water features.

BY JOEL BEERSPublished: August, 2009

Robinson Ranch is a testament to the designer's prolific career.
Ted Robinson Sr. (born 1923, died 2008) was a land planner who realized in the late ’50s that golf helped sell real estate. He then embarked on a design career that included more than 170 courses around the world.

Robinson’s ability to craft courses on nearly every kind of terrain made him the go-to architect from the desert to the rolling hills of Santa Clarita. His extensive use of water features as hazards and scenic accoutrements helped transform the Coachella Valley into the golf empire it is today, and he also proved that high-end, daily-fee courses could work with his design gems at Tustin Ranch and Tijeras Creek golf clubs.

When he died in 2008, the American Society of Golf Course Architects printed a paragraph detailing the philosophy of Robinson and his son, Ted Robinson Jr., with whom he launched Robinson Golf Design in his later years:

“The golfer attacks, the designer defends. Such is the adversarial relationship that defines the creation of a golf course,” they wrote. “At one extreme, it is easy to create a course where few would ever break 100. At the other, a course too easily defended quickly results in a loss of interest. The overriding objective of good course design is the balance between these extremes, creating an effective and rewarding experience for golfers at all levels of play. In order to accomplish this objective, our design philosophy centers upon three major design elements: flexibility, memorability and natural beauty.”


THE ART OF DESIGN: TEN GOLF COURSE ARCHITECTS

George C. Thomas  |  A.W. Tillinghast  |  William P. Bell  |  Ted Robinson Sr.
Tom Fazio  |  Casey O’Callaghan  |  Clive Clark
Todd Eckenrode  |  Damian Pascuzzo  | John Harbottle

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