By Design - Issue 54, 75 Years Special Report

23 2012 Bill Kubly 2013 Rees Jones 2014 Major Dan Rooney 2015 Bradley S. Klein 2016 Michael Bamberger 2017 Alice Dye 2018 George H. W. Bush 2019 Joe Passov 2020 Renee Powell 2021 Ben Crenshaw and Bill Coore ASGCA Past President Alice Dye was presented with the Donald Ross Award at the 2017 ASGCA Annual Meeting in Jupiter, Florida. She is pictured with previous winners Rees Jones, Jack Nicklaus, Pete Dye and Ron Whitten 1992 Paul Fullmer Paul Fullmer led the American Society of Golf Course Architects as Executive Secretary from 1970 to 2004. During his tenure, he helped to develop golf course architecture as a recognized profession and the ASGCA as a leading voice in the game of golf. He was also instrumental in the formation of the ASGCA’s charitable arm, the ASGCA Foundation, and the ASGCA environmental committee. Fullmer also established the Society’s excellence in publishing, most notably with the book ‘An Environmental Approach to Golf Course Development’. 1996 Ron Whitten Serving as the senior editor on architecture for Golf Digest magazine 1985-2020, Ron Whitten is one of the most highly regarded golf writers in the industry. He has authored five books on golf course design, including co-authoring – with fellow ASGCA Donald Ross Award winner Geoffrey Cornish – the first history of golf course architecture, ‘The Golf Course’, before writing ‘The Architects of Golf ’, both seen as seminal works. Whitten was also a co-designer of Erin Hills, alongside ASGCA Past President Mike Hurdzan and Dana Fry, ASGCA, a course that would host the 2017 US Open. 2020 Renee Powell When Renee Powell joined the LPGA Tour in 1967, she was just the second black player to do so. After her retirement from Tour golf and a stint as a commentator, Powell turned to teaching, becoming the head professional at Clearview Golf Club in Ohio – designed by her father, Bill – a role she still holds today. She devotes much of her time to Clearview Legacy Foundation for Education, Preservation and Turfgrass Research and Clearview HOPE (Helping Our Patriots Everywhere), a program for female military veterans. In 2015, she was made an honorary member by the Royal & Ancient Golf Club in St Andrews.