Golf architect Mike Hurdzan, who’s work includes Best New Public Course winner Bully Pulpit in North Dakota, was awarded the prestigious Donald Ross Award. According to the Cybergolf article:
Hurdzan was honored for “being a respected, passionate voice of reason and knowledge for golf. Hurdzan received the award on April 30 during the American Society of Golf Course Architects’ 61st Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Ga. Hurdzan’s work to educate the golf industry on environmentally sensitive development and advocate affordable, accessible golf were what brought him to the attention of the group’s Awards Committee.
Past winners of the award include Byron Nelson, Jack Nicklaus, Pete Dye, Herbert Warren Wind, Ron Whitten and Golf Observer’s Frank Hannigan.
Mike also wrote an essential textbook, Golf Course Architecture, for budding golf architects which breaks down many essential practical skills such as drainage and turf grasses as well as hole strategies and environmental issues. I’ll be interviewing Hurdzan later in the year. Here is one of my articles analyzing Bully Pulpit. It was a terrific four day golf vacation I took last year when colleagues and I played Bully Pulpit, Hawktree and Links of North Dakota. North dakota – they’re alot more than just East Montana and South Saskatchewan.
Here is a link to Mike’s and Dana Fry’s website. Hurdzan teamed with Fry and golf writer Ron Whitten to design the critically acclaimed Erin Hills in Wisconsin which looks to be a front runner for several U.S. Opens in the next decade.
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