Designer's Challenge: Creating a golf course is more than meets the eye

摘要

"For the first 10 years of my career, I was confused," admits golf course architect Brian Silva at the start of the two-day seminar on golf course design offered annually by Harvard University Graduate School of Design. "I was trying to invent new thi ngs--new bunkers, new greens, new everything," Silva continued. "Then, something happened to me one night. I found it in a golf magazine that had a centerfold of an aerial photograph of a golf course, and, honest to God, it coalesced all my thoughts abou t golf course design. That doesn't mean I still don't make mistakes left and right, but I make my mistakes less glaring; and I realize that everything that you need to learn about golf course design, you can learn by studying the great old courses--both the early courses of the United States and the great old courses on the links of Scotland. So, I think that it's incredibly important that you have an appreciation for the history of golf design. "