The Legendary Evolution of Pinehurst

Richard Mandell is a practicing golf course architect who has worked on more than fifty

golf course projects (new and renovations) in his twenty-three-year career, including

golf course restoration work on seven Donald Ross golf courses. He first moved to

Pinehurst after graduating from The University of Georgia to work for golf architect

Dan Maples. Upon returning to Pinehurst in 2000, Richard began his own golf course

design firm, Richard Mandell Golf Architecture.

Richard’s work can be found in twelve states and China and has won awards spanning three

different decades. In 2011, Richard was named one of the Fifteen Most Influential Golf

Architects by GolfInc. Magazine. He is the creator of the Symposium on Affordable

Golf, which is an annual conference focusing on the challenges of the golf business.

He has written numerous articles on golf architecture for magazines such as Golf

Illustrated, Golf Course Architecture Magazine, Golf Digest India, and Links Magazine and

has contributed chapters to three books on the subject: Volumes I and II of Golf

Architecture (A Worldwide Perspective) and Favourite Holes By Design: The

Architect’s Choice . His 2007 book, Pinehurst ~ Home of American Golf (The

Evolution of a Legend) won the 2008 International Network of Golf Book of

the Year and was a finalist for the USGA Herbert Warren Wind Award as well as a

ForeWord Magazine Sports Book Award 2007 Finalist.