Building a Career in Golf Architecture with Dan Hixson

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

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🗓️ 24 October 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Dan Hixson is a golf architect based in Portland, Oregon, who has designed and built several excellent golf courses in the Pacific Northwest, including Bandon Crossings, Wine Valley, the reversible Craddock/Hankins layout at Silvies Valley Ranch, and the new Bar Run. Sitting in his home office, Dan tells Garrett about his varied career in golf course design. He begins by talking about his ongoing renovation of Lake Oswego Golf Course, a municipal facility in the Portland suburbs. He then delves into how he got interested in golf architecture as a kid, his foray into international competitive golf, his time as a club pro, and his sudden transition into golf course design. In the second half of the episode, Dan and Garrett touch on some of his most significant design projects—all of which are open to the public.

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0:00.0	I'm already upset when I find my ball in the bunker I'm really upset and when I find my ball in a fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg
0:11.6	fried egg lie I'm about ready to run off the golf course Welcome. Welcome to the Friday Golf Podcast. My name is Garrett Morrison and today we're talking
0:39.6	about how to build a career in golf architecture.
0:43.6	Or at least we're talking about how one person accomplished that feat.
0:47.5	My guest is Dan Hickson.
0:49.3	He's a Portland, Oregon-based golf architect
0:51.8	who's designed a number of courses in Oregon in
0:54.4	Washington including Bandin Crossings, Wine Valley, the reversible course at
0:59.7	Sylvies Valley Ranch, and the brand new bar run in Roseburg, Oregon.
1:04.0	Dan's career has really run the gamut from low budget renovations to ambitious and
1:10.4	boundary pushing new builds and while he's somewhat under the radar nationally he is very well established and well
1:16.9	respected in the Pacific Northwest. I've wanted to have him on the podcast for a while and we finally found a good time when he was in town and
1:25.9	visiting his in progress renovation at the Lake Oswego Municipal Golf Course. So we'll open up by talking about that project and then we'll
1:35.2	dig into the way that Dan has built up his career from being a club pro at the
1:40.5	Columbia Edgewater Country Club to a very prolific golf course designer.
1:46.0	I think he's taken a really interesting path and it probably has some lessons in it for aspiring architects.
1:53.8	All right, let's get to it.
1:55.3	Here is Dan Hickson.
2:01.4	All right, so Dan Hickson, we were just out at the Lake Oswego Municipal
2:06.9	Course a few minutes ago walking around that project that you're doing. You've just finished basically renovating it,
2:15.6	doing an ambitious renovation out there. It's grassed in but hasn't opened yet.
2:20.5	There are some more things to do on the site. So could you just like take me through that
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