Portfolio – golf projects
Our Featured Golf Projects
For more than 26 years, Nathan has been designing new golf courses, renovating golf courses, master planning, and helping clients maximize the potential of their golf courses and the return on their investment. His work has garnered awards from Golf Digest, Golf Inc., GolfWeek, the ASGCA and more. From full course design and renvoations to long-range master plans and small-scale bunker or green renovations, he’s seen it all.
On this page you will find (in no particular order) our featured projects for the last quarter century.
For a full list of projects, please contact our office.
master plan | renovation & re-design
The Refuge
Location: Flowood, MS (Greater Jackson Metro Area)
Notable:
Winner – ASGCA “Environmental Excellence Award” 2019
Nominated – Golf Digest’s “Best New Public Course in America” 2021
new course design & residential land planning
Copper Mill Golf Club
Location: Zachary, LA (Baton Rouge)
Notable:
Winner – Golf Digest’s “Best New Public Course in America”
naturalization & turf reduction program
ongoing course-wide bunker renovation
Tiger Point Golf Club
Location: Gulf Breeze, FL
Notable:
Former Site of the PGA Tour’s Pensacola Open
full course bunker renovation
The Oaks Golf Club
Location: Pass Christian, MS (Gulf Coast)
Notable:
Former Host of the Buy.com Tour’s Gulf Coast Classic
Former Host of Hooters Tour event
full course renovation & re-design
Ole Miss Golf Club
Location: Oxford, MS
Notable:
Winner – Golf Inc.’s “Top 3 Best Public Course Renovations in America”
full course renovation & re-design
Hattiesburg Country Club
Location: Hattiesburg, MS
Notable:
GolfWeek’s “Top 5 Private Courses in Mississippi” 2020
Former PGA Tour stop (the week of The Masters)
lake bank restoration and re-design
Links on the Bayou
Location: Alexandria, LA
Notable:
WINNER – 2020 Environmental Excellence Award!
short game facility design & new practice green
Koasati Pines at Coushatta Resort
Location: Kinder, LA (Lake Charles)
Notable:
Host – Notah Begay’s National Junior Amateur Championship
FULL COURSE BUNKER RENOVATION
Tamahka Trails Golf Club
Location: Paragon Casino Resort – Marksville, LA
master plan
Smuggler’s Run GC
Location: Jackson Parish, LA
master plan
phase I – new practice facility & short course
phase ii – new 8th hole
phase iii – tbd
Tupelo Country Club
Location: Tupelo, MS
practice facility & ongoing course renovations
Historic Webb Park GC
Location: Baton Rouge, LA
short game facility renovation & re-design
Old Waverly Golf Club
Location: West Point, MS
Notable:
Host of 4 USGA events, including:
1999 US Women’s Open
2019 US Woemen’s Amateur
new short game facility & range upgrades
Annandale Golf Club
Location: Madison, MS
Notable:
Former PGA Tour Stop for the Sanderson Farms Classic
master plan, range upgrades & ongoing consulting
Starkville Country Club
Location: Starkville, MS
new team short game practice facility
Univ of Southern Mississippi
Location: Hattiesburg, MS (at Hattiesburg CC)
Notable:
Winner – “Environmental Excellence Award”
new team practice facilities & course upgrades
Mississippi State University GC
Location: Starkville, MS
Notable:
One of America’s “Top College Golf Courses”
phased bunker renovation
Cypress Creek GC
Location: Cabot, AR (Greater Little Rock)
re-routing / design of three new holes
Delta State University GC
Location: Cleveland, MS
Notable:
Course changes were required to make room for the new Grammy Museum
full course renovation master plan
Belle Rive
Location: Greater New Orleans, LA
coursewide greens renovation
Bay Breeze GC
Location: Keesler AFB; Biloxi, MS
coursewide greens renovation
The University Course
Location: Maxwell AFB; Montgomery, AL
new short game green complex
Bayou DeSaird Country Club
Location: Monroe, LA
coursewide greens renovation
Blackberry Trail Golf Course
Location: Florence, AL
hole 17 renovation & streambed restoration
The Bluffs Resort & CC
Location: St. Francisville, LA
green renovation
The Ridges at Village Creek
Location: Wynne, Arkansas
golf course & residential master plan
Champion Hill
Location: Vicksburg, Mississippi
new golf course master plan
Bella Solana Resort & Golf Course
Location: Guanacaste, Costa Rica (Pacific Coast)
full course greens re-design/renovation
Ormond Country Club
Location: Destrehan, Louisiana
36-hole resort golf course master plan
Castle Rock Resort
Location: Vanderbilt, Michigan
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