(Courtesy Ran Morrissett)ĪN: Tell us more about your origin story and why you’ve dedicated your life to studying golf courses. Ross himself designed nearly 400 courses in his lifetime. Morrissett has lived all over the world but now resides in North Carolina near the nine-course Pinehurst Resort, which includes a design by legendary golf course architect Donald Ross. We asked him about his nascent role and what makes great golf course architecture. It wasn’t exactly a daunting task for Morrissett, however, who at 56 years old has held tee times in over 35 countries and visited some of the most revered courses ever made. As Morrissett’s first major project with GOLF, the classification system reveals which of the some 30,000 courses around the world, both private and public, boast the best design. It was during these vacations that comparing and contrasting-aka critiquing-golf courses became a tradition.Ĭut to decades later, and Morrissett has made it his own unconventional career.ĪN sat down with Morrissett ahead of the GOLF’s release of its annual Top 100 course rankings, where they compiled the best places to play on the planet. 2, a 1907 design by famed course architect Donald Ross in North Carolina. Growing up, his family of four would travel to world-class courses abroad in England and Scotland, or places closer to home such as Harbour Town in Hilton Head, South Carolina, or Pinehurst No. North Carolina-based writer Morrissett, who started studying the topic seriously for Golf Club Atlas, a website he founded with his brother, has just been named the first architecture editor at GOLF Magazine. Arguably one of the most underrated and hidden fields of design, the professional world of creating and maintaining golf courses is surprisingly complex and rather storied. For 40 years, Ran Morrissett has been hooked on golf course architecture.
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