GREAT DUNES COURSE

Original Design by Walter Travis
1926

JEKYLL ISLAND GOLF CLUB, GA

"We are especially excited for the opportunity to share Travis’ brilliant architectural style with an audience of public golfers.  The newly restored Great Dunes will be one of a rare few municipal golf courses, on the east coast, which will offer ocean views, affordable prices to locals, and engaging architecture for all skill levels.  Our routing restores a genuine test of golden age golf, utilizing 9 original Travis holes while also recreating Travis’ unsurpassed ingenuity on the greens throughout the 18.  The reimagining of the Great Dunes meanders through maritime oak forest, coastal sand dunes, and salt marsh and will be playable year round thanks to major investments in the playing surfaces, irrigation and drainage infrastructure.  We really can’t wait to get started at the end of this year and reveal the extraordinary potential of this property."

Collaboration is our key to success

In the summer of 2023 Stein Golf Design and Ross Golf Design were jointly awarded the commission to renovate the Great Dunes golf course on Jekyll Island, Georgia. Although this was our first big project together, Brian and I have been collaborating since joining the prestigious Tartan associate program with the American Society of Golf Course Architects in 2020.

We have shared ideas and traded our best practices over the last several years to blend our skill and style into a cohesive team for the Great Dunes project. Our collective work ethic, experience and willingness to collaborate has elevated our ability to handle large and complex renovation projects and brings an excitement to our work.

“Most hazards should be arranged so as to compel a player to drive both far and sure, and yet to give the weaker player a chance to avoid being bunkered, provided he can place his ball wisely”

— Walter Travis, “Hazards”, 1902