Scott Macpherson Golf Design (SMGD) provides a tailored design service for everything from new golf course masterplanning, to design solutions for golf course renovations, driving ranges and short game areas. Its clients include resorts, members’ clubs, and private clients for championship or public courses. SMGD has a specialist interest in designing environmentally sensitive golf courses that create habitat areas, improve biodiversity, and seek to minimise inputs and maintenance costs. With dedicated on-site supervision, the design firm ensures every green, tee and bunker are individually tailored to naturally fit the land. SMGD designs attractive, eco-friendly and strategically fun golf courses that suit golfers of all ages and abilities, and the business needs of the clients. Some of the design firm’s landmark projects are:
• Millbrook Resort – host of the New Zealand Open in 2023 and 2024.
• Royal Wellington Golf Club – host venue of the 2017 Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship.
• Close House – the Colt course has hosted the British Masters in 2017 and 2020.
• Golf it! – The R&A’s new facility opened in Glasgow in 2023.