The Golf Course Designer

My enthusiasm for golf is reflected in my golf course design business, which I am very much involved with. My aim is to design Championship courses, not necessarily long courses, but a course that makes you think, and play from different angles, that both professionals and amateurs of differing abilities can enjoy.

Designing golf courses is a lot of fun, it gives me a big thrill, seeing them develop and grow from nothing is very satisfying. I am very passionate about design and draw from my Tour experience of playing on the world's greatest courses from links golf at St. Andrews to Augusta and Dubai. I like to plot my way around a golf course with bunker placement and strategy very much in my mind. Golf is not always about flying the ball all the way to the flag. It's about flying into certain areas to get it close.

I’d like to leave some sort of mark behind. It would be good to think that people knew straight away this was a Retief Goosen course.