The Evolution of Modern Golf Architecture with Bruce Hepner

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

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🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Bruce Hepner, former Vice President of Tom Doak's Renaissance Golf Design, was at the forefront of many current trends in golf architecture, from the Golden Age restoration movement to the revival of the design-build method. So we figured he would have an interesting perspective on the evolution of modern golf course design. Bruce and Garrett start by chatting about Bruce's passion for music and his recent renovation of Percy Warner Golf Course, a municipal nine in Nashville. They then discuss Bruce's epoch-spanning career, touching on his work in the early 1990s with Ron Forse, his experiences on Doak projects like Pacific Dunes and Ballyneal, and his thoughts on how the golf course restoration game has changed in recent years.

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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
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0:11.8	I'm about ready to run off the golf course Welcome. Welcome to the Friday Golf Podcast. I'm Garrett Morrison and today we're talking
0:39.2	about the evolution of modern golf architecture with Bruce Hepner.
0:44.0	I've wanted to have Bruce on the podcast for a long time.
0:47.0	He is a bit of a legend in the Golf Architecture business.
0:50.0	Definitely one of the people who helped drive the restoration movement, the rediscovery of
0:56.1	golden age architecture, the design build trend, really so much of what defines this current era of
1:02.2	golf course design. Bruce was there for all of it.
1:05.9	He served as the Vice President of Tom Doak's Renaissance golf design from 1993 to 2010, which was the period when Renaissance kind of went from an outsider
1:16.0	banned to one of the busiest and most influential firms in the industry.
1:20.8	Bruce worked on courses like Pacific Dunes, Old McDonald, Rock Creek Cattle Company,
1:26.2	the Renaissance Club, and he was the lead associate at Baleneel, Cape Kidnapers, and Stream Song
1:31.8	Blue, so pretty sturdy resume.
1:34.6	He also handled a lot of Renaissance Golf Designs consulting and restoration commissions, and when he left
1:39.8	Renaissance 13 years ago, he continued working with many of those courses.
1:44.2	A few of his most significant restorations have been at Essex County Club in Massachusetts,
1:49.4	Tim Aquana in Florida, Piping Rock in New York, Blue Mound in Wisconsin, and Cape Arundel in Maine.
1:57.2	One reason I'm talking to Bruce right now is that he just finished a renovation at
2:01.0	Percy Warner, which is a municipal nine-hole course in Nashville.
2:06.2	And that job is a great example of how much can be done at an affordable public course with
2:11.4	a relatively low budget. You know, so much of what I've been
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