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Who We Are

For those newer to the RGD family, some history is worth knowing. Tom Doak, the founder of Renaissance Golf Design, passed the reins to the team some time ago and is no longer part of daily operations — though he remains our founder and a friend to every RGD associate.

The firm today is led by Brian Schneider, Eric Iverson, Don Placek, and Brian Slawnik, four designers who each spent 15 to 20 years learning the craft in the field before stepping into leadership.
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Our Clients

We shape greens and bunkers in the field, solving sculptural problems as they arise
Cherry Hills Country Club
Cherry Hills, William Flynn’s only design west of the Mississippi, opened in 1923 and has hosted three U.S. Opens, one of them an all-timer: Arnold Palmer’s 1960 charge from seven back. The Rocky Mountains frame the course, but its real defense is the greens, sloped in Old World fashion, with gradual tilts instead of heavy […]
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Tara Iti Golf Club
Client Ric Kayne had lofty goals when he first contacted us about building a new golf course along the coast of New Zealand, but we had to send him back to the drawing board once before he found the right property to build it, on a sandy spit of land just south of Mangawhai, ninety […]
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Bandon Dunes (Pacific Dunes)
Since its opening in 2001, the sister course to Bandon Dunes has been a sensation in the press and for resort golfers from around the globe. It may well have been the best site for a golf course that any designer has been given since the 1920’s, but it was still a challenge to decide […]
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Beechtree Golf Club (NLE)
Ten years after it opened, our highly acclaimed public course north of Baltimore closed to make way for new residential development. Its economic trajectory closely mirrored the trend of high-end metropolitan daily fee courses built in the 1990’s, but the parkland-style design had been ranked among the top public courses in the nation, and we […]
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Ballyneal Golf Club
Of all the courses we’ve built so far, Ballyneal might be the most fun to play. Its wild natural contours come into play on every approach shot, rewarding the player who knows his way around and who can use the bold slopes to backstop his shot or feed it to the hole, while non-thinking golfers […]
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Renaissance Golf

Strategic golf course architecture rooted in natural beauty, timeless design, and respect for the land.

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Grand Traverse Commons

Traverse City, MI 49684
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