More than a decade ago now, I was fortunate to track down fellow Canadian golf architect Rod Whitman and convince him to allow me to go to work at designing and building golf courses. While gratefully collaborating with him at places like Blackhawk Golf Club, Sagebrush Golf and Sporting Club and Cabot Links, Rod taught me how to build golf courses at the highest level - a unique craft learned from his mentors, Pete Dye and Bill Coore. Not long after we began working together, Rod told me it's the guys with dirt under their nails who will never build the worst courses and have a better chance to build the best. I will never forget this sage advice. It's a fact that the world's great golf courses were not created in two-dimensions on paper. No, the truly great courses of the world were created in the field using a fluid construction process which permits initial ideas to evolve in three-dimensions as a golf course is taking shape. This is why I insist on spending an extraordinary amount of time on-site, participating with feature shaping, finish work and construction supervision, during realization of my golf course designs. This method, I've learned, is the only way to capitalize on those previously unforeseen opportunities which always present themselves, and to consistently achieve the very best, most economic result each time I'm presented with privileged opportunity to create a new golf course or improve upon an existing layout.
My aim is to work with clients who share a deep passion for the game of golf and course architecture, to consistently create golf courses of true distinction.
copyright - Mingay Golf Course Design, 2011
Jeff Mingay is one of the sharpest young men working in and around the field of golf course design today.
Lorne Rubenstein, Golf columnist for the Globe and Mail
