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Scott-Taylor Golf Architect LLC is
comprised of a solid group of professionals
to meet the
needs of your undertaking. From the actual
design of your course, to the growing and
maintaining of your investment, to the business
considerations of marketing your project,
our firm provides these necessary services
bundled as one team. Our work is focused
on “old fashioned values” of
classical golf architecture, modern and environmentally
sensetive agronomic practices, personal service,
and the highest quality of golf course product.
Below is information on each individual that
comprises the core team of Ian Scott-Taylor
Golf Architect LLC.
Ian
Scott-Taylor, Golf Architect and Principal
Ian
Scott-Taylor’s golf architectural career
has spanned twenty years to include involvement
with or leading over fifty major design projects
throughout sixteen countries.
Scott-Taylor’s belief in classic strategic
golf traces back to his early years in North
Wales, in the United Kingdom. His father,
an officer in the merchant navy also contributed
to his love of the game.
He studied
at West Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education,
City and Guilds London Institute and the
University of Wiltshire, where he received
his Ph.D in Engineering Design.
At the Royal Commission of Ancient and Historic
Monuments, Scott-Taylor worked on some of
the most environmentally sensitive sites
in the UK. He
became an expert on historic landscapes and
site recognition and
remains one of the only golf course architects
in the British Isles to work on heritage
and ecological issues for the British Government.
In 1985 Scott-Taylor joined the David Williams
Partnership. In his position with other
notable golf course designers, he developed
his skills and gained a reputation for precision
scheme and working drawings.
In 1991 he opened his own practice and worked
with David Feherty, Brian Huggett, and Ian
Woosnam on numerous sites. With Wales
as his home base, projects took
him to Turkey, Dubai, Ireland and the USA.
Scott-Taylor then came to the USA in 1998
to create a championship British golf course
on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The
result... Hunters
Oak Golf Club, Queenstown,
MD. During
the project, he spoke to his father often
about their mutual respect for the game
and the land on which it was played. After
completion, he remained in the US.
Scott-Taylor sees a special need for accurate
restoration of classic courses and environmentally
sensitive solutions for course improvement
and expansion. His goal is to build courses
that will become the timeless standard of
the game.
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Paul R. Latshaw, Agronomist
Paul
R. Latshaw has been hailed as one of the
most experienced golf course superintendents
in the world. Over a ten-year period he
hosted, as a superintendent, more major
golf tournaments than any other. Over the
course of his career he has hosted: The
Masters Tournament at
Augusta National; the US Senior Open;
the USGA’s crown jewel, the US
Open;
the PGA Championship;
and the Nissan Open.
One
of Latshaw’s greatest achievements
was the restoration and hosting of the
acclaimed return of Congressional Country
Club to a Major Championship venue
for the 1997 US Open,
which was formally recognized by the Golf
Course Superintendents Association for
his achievement and preparation of the
famed Congressional Layout.
Latshaw
has also been the superintendent at such
courses as the Riviera Country Club, Wingfoot
Country Club, and Wilmington Country Club.
Since his retirement as an active superintendent
he has become an innovator in the superintendent’s
world, through education, placement of
superintendents, public speaking, and his
consulting work.
His
clients have included: Card Sound Golf
Club, Key Largo, FL; White Manor Country
Club, Malvern, PA; Myers Park Country Club,
Charlotte, NC; Oak Hill Country Club, Rochester,
NY; Ocean Reef Club, Key Largo, FL; Old
Memorial Golf Club, Tampa, FL; Quaker Ridge
Golf Club, Scarsdale, NY; Saddle Creek
Resort, Copperopolis, CA; Sherwood Country
Club, Thousand Oaks, CA; Victoria National
Golf Club, Newburgh, IN; Glenn Riddle Golf
Club, Berlin, MD; and both the El Camaleón
Golf Club, Mayakoba, Mexico and the Southern
Hills Country Club, Tulsa, OK to prepare
for the PGA Championship.
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