Desmond

Article by Forrest Richardson is reprinted with permission from The Golfer’s Journal (2020) about Golf Course Architect Desmond Muirhead, one of Forrest Richardson’s mentors At fifteen years of age I learned a great lesson. Don’t write about golf architecture unless you’ve personally visited the course and studied it in detail. My misstep occurred in June 1974. The writing was about Bay Valley Resort’s (Michigan) 15th hole, a par-3 with a 100-yard long curve shaped tee. “You really made a blunder there,” came the biting words of Desmond Muirhead. “You missed the whole point of the concept. It’s not about [...]

Desmond2021-03-28T17:46:15+00:00

Richardson’s Roosevelt Restoration Work Opens

July 29th, 2019 (Los Angeles, California) After eight months of work, the nine-hole Roosevelt Course operated by the City of Los Angeles has re-opened for public play. The City of Los Angeles Golf Division, operators of 12 courses in central Los Angeles, undertook extensive irrigation work along with feature and landscape restoration. “Many people have learned to play golf at Roosevelt,” notes Forrest Richardson. “Bringing the course back into shape as it once was became a labor of love for those of us involved.” Richardson, who grew up in nearby Burbank, California, worked with Heritage Links on the assignment [...]

Richardson’s Roosevelt Restoration Work Opens2021-03-28T17:39:33+00:00

Bunker Longevity (2020)

by Forrest Richardson, ASGCA Sometimes when meeting with course owners and committees it comes out that, in my previous life, I was a well-respected designer of corporate brands and a copywriter of all things marketing and advertising. From the early 1980s, for twenty years, I manipulated the printed page, anguishing over the spacing between letters (this is called kerning), the cropping of photographs and the exact color that would be best for a brochure about cell phone accessories. I was an art director who could form sentences and write. Better put, I was a creative director. About midway through my [...]

Bunker Longevity (2020)2021-03-28T17:34:26+00:00

Most Innovative People In Golf

Golf Inc. Magazine (Summer 2019, Excerpted) Richardson has a prediction about what's on the horizon for golf. “The course of the future,” he wrote in an e-mail, “may look like what we think of golf today, but it will be far more entertaining and connected.” It’s a future that Richardson welcomes. From one perspective, his career has followed a predictable architectural arc: He carved out backyard courses as a boy, studied the masters in Scotland and served an apprenticeship with an established designer. But since he set out on his own in 1988, he’s challenged the conventional wisdom, evangelizing for [...]

Most Innovative People In Golf2021-03-28T17:29:56+00:00

Most Innovative People In Golf (March 2019)

Golf Inc. Magazine has announced their list of the “Most Innovative People In Golf,” a list of nine professionals covering the world of golf from management to agronomy. Among the prestigious list is golf course architect Forrest Richardson. Richardson was selected for his forward thinking on such aspects of the game as the promotion of short courses and alternative course formats.

Most Innovative People In Golf (March 2019)2019-05-01T17:45:06+00:00

City of Los Angeles Restores Roosevelt Golf Course (Jan 2019)

Forrest Richardson, ASGCA leads renovation and restoration effort to bring Los Angeles's beloved 9-hole course into a new era. LOS ANGELES - Jan. 31, 2019 Conceptual rendering of Roosevelt's 8th hole, a short par-4. The City of Los Angeles Golf Division has undertaken a bold move to restore their nine hole gem, Roosevelt Golf Course located in its historic Griffith Park. Forrest Richardson, ASGCA is overseeing bunker and feature work, additional tees and work to return greens to their original shapes. The course is also getting a new irrigation system to accommodate the use of recycled water. In [...]

City of Los Angeles Restores Roosevelt Golf Course (Jan 2019)2021-03-28T21:24:06+00:00

Baylands Golf Links Nears Completion (Oct. 19, 2017)

Anchored in the heart of California's Silicon Valley, the long awaited remake of the old Palo Alto Municipal Golf Course, now called Baylands Golf Links, is finally nearing completion. Golf Course Architect Forrest Richardson, ASGCA began the project nearly six years ago after being awarded the assignment among a field of golf course architects shortlisted by the City of Palo Alto. “It began as work to make way for flood control,” notes Richardson. “We quickly focused on how the community could benefit in many more ways, such as returning the environment to natural habitat and opening the golf course to more diverse use.”

Baylands Golf Links Nears Completion (Oct. 19, 2017)2018-09-15T18:11:18+00:00