Francisco López Segalés is a spanish golf course designer with a long career in the world of golf. His father, Miguel López Flores, was a Greenkeeper from 1956 until his retirement in 1995. Francisco Segalés started out as a Head Greenkeeper in the year 1973, in the La Moraleja GC, where he worked until 1990. From 1990 to 2001 he was consultant for the same course.
In the early stages of his working relationship with La Moraleja golf course he went to the United States to study on several occasions (Massachusetts University, Scott and Sons and annual Golf Course Superintendent Seminars). He also collaborated on the construction and maintenance of Muirfield Village Golf Club (Ohio, USA), with Jack Nicklaus’ team.
In 1982 he took his first steps in the world of design and combined his duties as Head Greenkeeper with the direction of work on new courses and projects. In 1993 he founded Segalés Golf, a company dedicated exclusively to golf course design and projects, whilst continuing the maintenance consultancy. (more…)
Thomas C. Himmel, born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1964, graduated as a civil engineer in 1988 at the Technical University of Munich, Germany and during his time there specialized in ecology in construction. After graduating as a civil engineer he took a two year course at the British Institute of Golf Course Architects (now: EIGCA European Insitute of Golf Course Architects) which he joined in 1991. He is now a Senior Member and since the beginnings of 2006 member of the council.
Dan Maples is an American golf Architect born in Pinehurst, North Carolina in 1947 into a family whose roots in golf course construction reach back into the 19th Century. The Maples family, since Dan’s great-grandfather James; have been involved with golf either as professionals, superintendents, builders or architects.
Dimitri Van Hauwaert is fast becoming one of Europe’s most prolific golf architects; his reputation up there amongst the best in the field. Despite only trading as 
After graduating from the University of Massachusetts -Stockbridge, Ron Kirby launched his career in golf course architecture by accepting the position of design associate with Dick Wilson in 1958. Prior to this affiliation with Wilson, Ron Kirby was a golf course superintendent at Petersham Country Club in western Massachusetts. Ron began his experience with Dick Wilson at Paradise Island (formerly Hog Island in the Bahamas) supervising the development and grow-in of Arrowwack Golf Club. Huntington Hartford, the heir of Atlantic & Pacific Company, was developing the island into an exclusive resort property.
John Henry “J.H.” Taylor (19 March 1871 – 10 February 1963) was an English professional golfer and one of the pioneers of the modern game of golf. He was also a significant golf course architect.
Born in Italy in July 4th 1945, Luigi Rota Caremoli graduated on Science Geologic-Topo-Cartographical and Buildings at the Marconi University in Rome. He is has been professionally involved in golf for over 45 years and has specialized in golf course design, remodelling and development in Italy and abroad for over 27 years.
Louis Sibbett (“Dick”) Wilson was among the most respected of post-World War II period golf course architects. Son of a contractor, Dick Wilson grew up in Philadelphia, USA, and got an early taste for the business as a water boy during the construction of Merion GC. A fine athlete who attended the University of Vermont on a football scholarship, he joined the design team of Bill Flynn and Howard Toomey after college. Wilson became a construction superintendent with Toomey and Flynn, and oversaw the implementation of Flynn’s design at Shinnecock Hills in 1931. The Depression impacted the design business and Wilson was forced to take a job as a greenkeeper at Delray Beach CC.
David J. Krause was born in Swift Current, Canada. He started playing golf in his childhood and his passion for the game soon developed into the goal of becoming a golf course architect. To achieve his dream, David chose to study Turfgrass Management, believing that to be a successful architect it was important to understand how to maintain a golf course.
Gary Roger Baird is an American golf course designer from Brentwood, Tennessee, he has been involved in golf course architect for 38 years designing and building golf courses throughout the United States, the Far East, Latin America, and Europe. Gary R. Baird is the President & CEO of 
