The Trent Jones golf legacy begins with Robert Trent Jones, Sr, who is widely considered to have single-handedly created the profession of golf course architect. His design philosophy can best be explained in his phrase “tough par, easy bogey”.

Robert Trent Jones, Jr. followed in his father’s Ivy League footsteps by attending Yale, then another year of law school at Stanford University before joining his father’s golf architecture firm. The first course he worked on was the legendary Spyglass Hill.

In the 1960s, he began designing golf course on his own and formed his own company, Robert Trent Jones II, in the early 1970s in Palo Alto, California. He has designed or remodeled more than 200 golf courses during his career.

Robert Trent Jones, Jr. has served as President of the American Society of Golf Course Architects, and his courses have won myriad accolades and awards.

They have also hosted tournaments on most of the world’s major golf tours. The man is a winner of many Best Course and Best New Course awards in Asia, Europe, Australia, Caribbean, and the United States by raters and golf journals.

Jones Jr is also known as “the father of environmental golf course design” and likes to say that he “listens to the land” when creating his masterful layouts