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Sharp Park Restoration Vision
After playing Sharp Park for the first time, I thought it would be an interesting challenge to look into how a restoration could possibly be carried out (though it's likely a futile dream), considering environmental factors, appeasing naturalists, and of course bringing back as much MacKenzie as possible. I looked through demands that have been placed by environmentalists who have frustration with a golf course existing at Laguna Salada at all, and used these to predict what quid-pro-quos would need to be made for any possibility of work being done. I also tried to bring back as much MacKenzie as possible, by keeping what remains and bringing features of the lost holes back into the newly designed ones.
Many of the original holes have the possibility to be brought back in near entirety, with some minor alterations to holes next to the laguna. I entirely redesigned the holes that were added East of the freeway following the 1941 storms to make them ‘belong’ with the MacKenzie holes.
The routing is very flexible, hence the lack of numbering, and could be decided based on play logistics as well as somewhat matching the routing sequence to the original.
Overlay drawing of restoring the original 5th (current 17th at right) and a redesign of the current 16th (left) inspired by the original 6th green. The seawall reconstructed to resemble the lost dunes, and other dunes restores throughout.
2024
Overlay drawing of wetland expansion over the current 12th hole, along with dune restoration along the seawall.
Irwin Creek Reversible Course
With more innovative course designs being more common, and the age old reversible course being at the forefront I wondered, would it be possible to create a course that is more than just reversible? The result was nine holes that can be played in 4 different routings.
2024
Cal Poly Practice Facility Conceptual
Cal Poly Golf head coach Philip Rowe reached out to me about their upcoming practice facility project at the Dairy Creek facility in early 2025. By summer they had raised the money and hired architect Tom Lehman to design the short game area. As a landscape architecture student at the university with a background in golf I was invited to watch and weigh in on the project, over the summer prior to construction I developed the plans below.
The site is a 1.4 acre section of the abandoned front nine of the Dairy Creek Golf Course, now used by the Cal Poly Golf Team. It is surrounded by three ponds and various exterior areas to play shots into it from.
Read about the construction and final design in Work
2025
DMK Spring Internship Course Plan
Prior to working in Nebraska during the summer I visited the DMK office in Bend, OR. In the office I watched the associates go about their work and I was tasked with coming up with a routing and design for one of their upcoming projects.
2025
Fried Egg Golf Breezy Point Design Competition
Three entires to a design competition for a hole at the new par three course at Breezy Point Resort, MN. Boundary and topography were provided, only other restraint was that it had to be a template not already used on other holes of the course.
Reef Hole, finalist design
By member jury and architect Andy Staples
2025
