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Raymond Hearn Golf Course Designs Celebrates 25-Year Anniversary

Glen TurkBy Glen TurkMay 7, 2021No Comments4 Mins Read
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HOLLAND, Mich. – For a quarter of a century Raymond Hearn Golf Course Designs, Inc. has excelled in golf course architecture, including creating new course designs and the restoration, renovation, and remodeling of existing courses throughout the United States and abroad.

“It has been a great ride thus far with a couple bumps – recessions – mixed in here and there,” Hearn, ASGCA member and the company’s president and founder, said.

“We have stayed busy during these 25 years and our portfolio remains diverse with a variety of projects.”

In the company’s early years new golf course design comprised 60 percent of the work portfolio but the portfolio has evolved with the industry over time. Existing golf course restoration, renovation and remodeling make up 80 percent of the company’s current work.

“We are still lucky enough to have some new 18-hole designs kicking around,” Hearn said. “Times have changed in the industry though. There are fewer new courses being constructed, especially in the USA, but at the same time there are wonderful opportunities to restore, renovate or remodel existing courses that over time have come to need updating in various ways. Our company excels in this.”

Hearn’s company has earned a national reputation for their award-winning restoration, renovation, and remodeling. The American Society of Golf Course Architects (ASGCA) has acknowledged his firm with Design Excellence Recognition Awards five times since 2012. Some of the company’s projects have been completed or are underway on highly regarded designs from various eras including the acclaimed “Golden Age of Golf Course Design.”

Hearn said he has enjoyed the privilege of working on three pre-1900 projects with a fourth and possibly fifth assignment coming soon, and that working on existing courses versus creating new ones is obviously entirely different but equally as exciting.

“Working on existing courses, especially historical classics, is more difficult in my opinion due in part to the time that must be dedicated to research right out of the gate, plus, many clubs have a resident golf course architect or 20 or so within the membership,” Hearn added with a laugh. “Respectfully, working on courses where Willie Park, Ross, Bendelow, Langford, Tweedie, and other legends graced the property and created years ago is an incredible privilege for which I am humbled.”

Hearn said he is often asked about the elements that have helped him in his architecture journey.

“I always respond in this order: My university degree in Landscape Architecture with my emphasis area in Golf Course Architecture and my degree in Turfgrass Science,” he said. “My overseas study and tours in Scotland, Ireland and England were also invaluable. Combining those things with years of experience has aided my career, and I’ve always held that, as with any profession, you must never stop learning.”

A partial list of Hearn’s diverse and interesting recent assignments include:

Metedeconk National Golf Club in Jackson, NJ
Washtenaw Golf Club (1899) in Ypsilanti, MI
River Bend Resort and Golf Club in Brownsville, TX
White Lake Golf Club (1916) in Muskegon, MI
Hilton Chicago Oak Brook Hills Resort, Oak Brook, IL
Boyne Resort Courses in Harbor Springs, MI (Moor GC, Donald Ross Memorial, Highlands Par 3 Course)
Midlothian Country Club (1898) in Midlothian, IL
Schenectady Municipal Golf Course in Schenectady, NY
Waters Edge Golf Club in Fremont, MI
Westwood Golf Club in Woodbury, NJ
Lincoln Golf Club (1927) in Muskegon, MI
Yahara Hills Municipal Golf Course in Madison, WI
Maple Lane Golf Club (1927) in Sterling Heights, MI
La Rivera Golf Resort in the Dominican Republic
Youngs Golf Course in Iron River, MI
The Inn at St. Johns in Plymouth, MI
Tuscania Golf Resort in El Salvador
Hearn’s work in the USA and around the world has helped him achieve many of his bucket list goals in the industry, but he mentioned he hasn’t worked everywhere just yet.

“There are a couple states I have not worked in such as Maine, Pennsylvania and North Carolina,” he noted. “I would like to work on a new or redesign in those three states someday.”

Stay-tuned to Raymond Hearn Golf Course Designs at www.rhgd.com for more exciting news. At the vintage age of 25, the company’s award-winning past has led to a busy present and a future that looks very promising. Hearn is as passionate as ever about his work and he said only a few who work in his profession ever consider retirement.

“Why would you when you get up each morning thinking about golf courses and golf course design? It is an honor and a privilege doing what I do every day. Plus, I must admit, it’s a lot of fun.”

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Glen Turk is a Wisconsin native who has been the Senior Writer/Editor of Midwest Golfing Magazine since 2006. Besides being an avid golfer, Glen enjoys traveling, music, and cheering on the finest professional sports team of all-time, the Green Bay Packers. Glen’s ultimate golf goal is to play in all fifty states and currently he is more than half way there. His other dream, albeit far-fetched, it to record an ace in all seven states of our distribution area. Thanks to an ace in Illinois in 2015, and one in Michigan in 2016, he has three down, four to go!

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