By Design – Issue 53, Summer 2021

7 Photo: credit Crenshaw and Coore to receive Donald Ross Award The ASGCA has chosen Ben Crenshaw and Bill Coore, ASGCA, as the recipients of its Donald Ross Award for 2021. The annual award is presented to those making a significant contribution to the game of golf and the profession of golf course architecture. The pair have designed some of the world’s most highly rated golf courses, including Sand Hills Golf Club in Nebraska, Sheep Ranch in Oregon and Cabot Cliffs in Canada. They have also renovated many courses, including Pinehurst No. 2 in North Carolina, and their current projects include a new course in Alabama (see page 11 for more). “Ben and Bill demonstrate the great benefit that comes from collaboration in our profession, especially when the work is carried out with balance and respect,” said ASGCA President Forrest Richardson. ASGCA Past Presidents Steve Smyers and Rees Jones, will present the award to the pair in October at the 75th ASGCA Annual Meeting in Cleveland. A new book by Ron Kirby, ASGCA Fellow, details his journey from caddying at United Shoe Country Club in his hometown of Beverly, Massachusetts, to designing golf courses all over the world, alongside his wife Sally. Fittingly for a book that is centered on golf, ‘We Spent Half Our Lives on the Wrong Side of the Road’ is organized into 18 chapters. But instead of representing holes, each is dedicated to a different address at which the Kirbys lived. “The goal of this book is not to be something mass-produced, but rather to write a story that our children, grandchildren, great- grandchildren, and friends can read and enjoy,” wrote Kirby. ‘We Spent Half Our Lives on the Wrong Side of the Road’ is available to buy at Amazon. Kirby pens memoir Photo: Apes Hill