For golf course architects
A confidential reading from someone who draws for a living.
Peer review is ordinary in every other design profession. It should be ordinary in golf.
A second reading, without a second agenda.
If you want a second architect to pressure-test a routing or a set of green complexes before you issue them, we will do that under a separate confidentiality undertaking. We will not use the review as a way to introduce ourselves to your client as a replacement.
Choose the form of the review
What you can ask for: a private memo, a red-line set, a conversation, or a short written note you can choose to share. You remain the author of the design.
Confidentiality without ambiguity
You remain the author of the design.
Peer review should strengthen the work without disturbing authorship, appointment, or trust.
Request a confidential peer reviewIndependence policy
A review or audit appointment is not a design appointment.
We do not solicit the design commission of a project we have been hired to review or audit.
If, after the file is closed, a client asks us to take over or complete the design, that is a new contract, issued in writing.
We will decline work where we have a conflict we cannot manage — including a current design role on the same site.
Conversations with the appointed architect are encouraged when the client agrees. Surprise is not a method.