Working for Pete Dye, Tom Doak realised that was the right time to go back to more natural shapes, bringing back golf architecture to the principle that leaded it during its dawning, from the beginning of the 19th century, to the end of the 1930s, when the “Golden Age” of golf design terminated.

The Architect realised that the site has to lead the design and the laying out of the course and not vice versa, he stated that is always possible to find something on the ground that is possible to use in the design to create a hole [7].

The Minimalist phylosophy

Since Tom Doak’s first solo design at High Ponte, his work was recognised as “minimalist”, a way of designing golf courses characterised by very few earth movements. He and his associates, tried to design holes in a way that the bulldozer would be seldom used, only when strictly necessary. His statement is to take as much advantage as possible of the topography of the site.