Video: Defining Strategic Design

The architecture world often gets bogged down in trying to define styles of design, styles of architects and styles of template holes.

What is often forgotten by golfers and sadly, golf architects: understanding what strategic design means.

While creating and maintaining strategy is incredibly difficult with huge distance leaps over the last 20 years, asking players to make tactical decisions with a reward at the end for the combination of mental and physical skill, is still the ultimate in golf. It's satisfying to play and compelling to watch when a nice balance of risk and reward can be offered.

So with that in mind, that's why we started with a definition of stategy, kicked off by the definition from the late Geoffrey Cornish and his Golf Course Design co-author Robert Muir Graves.