Golf course architects Stuart Rennie and Jeffrey Danner have joined forces to create a brand new design partnership referred to as Pangaea Golf Structure.
The Scottish-American alliance is called after the traditional supercontinent that included all of earth’s landmass and is a mirrored image of the principals’ philosophy, ‘One world – higher collectively’.
Danner and Rennie met whereas learning on the European Institute of Golf Course Architects’ diploma course in 2007 and have been shut pals ever since.
Danner says: “After I first me Stuart his expertise was apparent and I may sense his ambition. We bonded over our shared aspirations. Even again then, we joked about taking up the golf world collectively, and now could be the time for us to take a management position in our shortly evolving business.”
Rennie provides: “Now we have spent the years since our first assembly making our personal methods within the golf design business, however for each of us, now we have all the time been considering pooling our talents to create nice golf programs, and I feel now we have each reached the stage in our careers the place it’s time for us to pursue that curiosity.”
Rennie grew up close to Dornoch, the house of legendary architect Donald Ross, and has been a member of the Royal Dornoch membership because the age of twelve. After the EIGCA Diploma, he labored for the agency of Thomson, Perrett and Lobb in Melbourne, Australia, working carefully with five-times Open champion Peter Thomson, and in addition in London, earlier than forming his personal agency, Rennie Design, in 2011. His highest profile challenge was the design of the acclaimed new Highland Council King’s Golf Course in Inverness, which opened in 2019. In addition to finishing many renovation and masterplanning initiatives, he additionally served as building challenge supervisor on the Royal & Historical’s Golf It! improvement in Glasgow.
Rennie says: “Rising up and studying my golf within the Highlands, I’ve an apparent reference to the work of Donald Ross. For years it has been a significant profession aim for me to comply with in his footsteps and work in North America, even perhaps engaged on one in all his programs. Creating Pangaea Golf Structure units the stage to satisfy that ambition!”
Jeff Danner is one in all solely 4 golf architects to be members of each the European Institute of Golf Course Architects and the American Society of Golf Course Architects. His profession has seen him working with corporations comparable to Golfplan and Lohmann Golf Designs, and a major spell with Greg Norman Golf Course Design. He based his personal agency, Danner Design, lately, however has been considering forming a long-term partnership for some years.
Danner was in a lead designer position for quite a few initiatives for Greg Norman Golf Course Design, together with initiatives in Vietnam, Japan and Saudi Arabia. Extra lately, Jeff oversaw the renovation of Anchorage Golf Course in preparation for 2022 USGA Senior Girls’s Newbie and has been main the transformation of Hyderabad Golf Membership in India, on behalf of his earlier affiliation with Richardson|Danner Golf Course Architects.
“Lately, the golf design market has been centered on design – or a minimum of form – and construct initiatives,” says Danner. “And there are an rising variety of shaper-designers practising on this method, however there are limitations on the kind of challenge you’ll be able to tackle utilizing that strategy. In actual fact, I’ve fielded a number of calls prior to now few years from shaper-designers who’re making an attempt to pair with somebody who has sturdy planning and design expertise, as a way to be aggressive within the wider market.
“Flexibility in building is a should, however most initiatives, particularly in creating components of the world, require skilled planning and documentation, and a shaping background doesn’t in itself equip you to try this. Our expertise signifies that we’re very comfy with each design and construct and extra conventional initiatives, which we consider is a wonderful purpose for shoppers to work with us.”
Rennie agrees. “My Inverness challenge required a steadiness of exact planning and the flexibleness to adapt to varied alternatives within the discipline. My skilled background as a panorama architect offered me with the coaching to ship excessive stage contract building documentation, whereas permitting for some improvisation which was key for Inverness. We each very a lot get pleasure from working within the discipline and consider that we will present the very best of each worlds the place we create good high quality drawings and spend useful time on website,” he says.
“Between the 2 of us, now we have a deep understanding of the position of each artwork and science in golf design, and I feel that can be an actual supply of aggressive benefit for us within the years to come back. With places of work on either side of the Atlantic, we’re in an important place to supply around the clock providers to shoppers in any a part of the world – it’s an thrilling prospect for each of us.”
