Course
Designers: William B. Langford & Theodore J. Moreau
(1926) & David Gill (1969)
Architect
William B. Langford, designed the original nine holes
at Marquette Golf Club in 1926. Born in 1887 in Austin,
Illinois, he suffered from polio as a child and took
up golf as part of a rehabilitation program. He was
a member of three Yale University NCAA championship
golf teams from 1906-1908 and became a golf course architect
after gaining a Master's degree in Mining Engineering
at Columbia University. He went on to design over 250
courses with his partner Theodore J. Moreau and became
the first honorary member of the Golf Course Architectural
Society of America.
The
most well-known examples of their work include Lawsonia
Links in Green Lake, WI, and Skokie Country Club in
IL. |
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Course
Designer: Mike DeVries
Golf architect Mike
DeVries is a craftsman who insists on being personally
involved with all aspects of golf course development,
including feature shaping of the putting greens and
bunkers. By being on-site consistently throughout the
construction process, DeVries also enabled himself to
continually study the land, reacting to previously unforeseen
opportunities and improving upon his original design
concepts. This evolutionary process inevitably results
in a unique golf course of enduring quality.
A
1987 graduate of Lake Forest College in suburban Chicago
(Business Administration), DeVries apprenticed with
golf architect, Tom Doak, before going on to the University
of Michigan where he earned his Master's degree in Landscape
Architecture in 1994. Following a stint as an on-site
design coordinator with golf architect, Tom Fazio, DeVries
designed and constructed four new golf courses including
the Kingsley Club & Greywalls. |
