54 Built to design ANDREW GREEN INTERVIEW Throughout the hundred-plus years that golf course design has existed as a career, most new entrants to the business have started out by working for an established golf designer, as some kind of assistant. Hugh Alison became Harry Colt’s associate and left his mark across Europe, America and Japan; Bobby and Rees Jones started out helping their father, Robert Trent Jones Sr, before going on to build hundreds of courses of their own. And, more recently, with the emergence of the ‘design and shape’ construction model, working for a big name as a shaper-associate has become a practical option for young people who want to be golf architects. Andrew Green’s journey was a little different, though his youthful ambition echoes that of so many other golf architects. “When I was a junior in high school, I wanted to become a golf course architect,” he says. “Everyone I discussed this with said it would be near impossible to make a name for myself. I wasn’t the best golfer, and I didn’t have a family connection to the design business. Andrew Green’s route into golf design came through construction, rather than a more traditional apprenticeship in a design office. But in the last 10 years he has emerged as one of the most dynamic names in the industry. He spoke with Adam Lawrence.
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