California Golf Club of San Francisco
San Francisco, California
In 2007 the California Golf Club of San Francisco, one of the Bay Area's oldest and most respected private clubs, was completely renovated under the direction of Kyle Phillips Golf Course Design. The original A. Vernon Macan design was architecturally restored within the current property boundaries, using 1927 as a benchmark, when Dr. Alister Mackenzie re-bunkered the course.
Del Paso Country Club
Sacramento, California
Del Paso Country Club celebrated its 90th anniversary when the new course redesigned by Kyle Phillips opened for play July 2006. Founded in 1916, Del Paso once hosted tournaments that included legendary players such as Sir Henry Cotton and Tommy Armour, as well as the 1982 US Women's Open. The architectural personality of the original course designed by Scotsman John Black has been maintained while regaining its championship status.
Dundonald Links
Loch Lomond Golf Club, Troon
This Kyle Phillips link course can be added to the list of Royal Troon, Prestwick and Western Gailes, all connected by the historic Ayrshire rail line. Making its debut when the world of golf comes to Troon for The Open Championship in 2004, Dundonald has already been mooted as the future venue for the future venue for the Scottish Open.
Golf Eichenheim
Kitzbuhel-Aurach
The majestic Wilder Kaiser or "Wild King" mountain range serves as the backdrop for the Par Five, Tenth Hole at Golf Eichenheim. This Kyle Phillips design is the site of the Austrain Masters and is already one of the top-rated courses in Austria.
Kingsbarns Golf Links
St. Andrews
Near St. Andrews, Scotland, Kingsbarns is a magnificent seaside links course ranked among the Top 50 courses in the world by Golf Magazine 2001. It also received Golf Digest's Best New International Course in February 2001. Kingsbarns opened July 2000 and began hosting the Dunhill Links Championship in 2001.
The PGA of Sweden National Golf Resort
Troup
Only 30 minutes from Copenhagen, Denmark and 15 minutes from Malmo, Sweden, this scenic southern location offers players a longer golf season. This spectacular facility features the highest quality golf and training experience in Scandinavia, consisting of two new Kyle Phillips Golf Course Design championship courses and a nine hole short course. The Links Course, with its classic links-style architecture and traditional fescue grasses opens for play in May 2009.
The Grove
London
Beautifully situated along the Grand Union Canal on the site of a 17th Century English Estate, this Kyle Phillips course has been designed in a traditional English style. This course is part of a 300 acre five-star country estate located within 40 minutes of London's West End.
Incline Village Championship & Mountain Course
Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Located on the North Shore of Lake Tahoe, Nevada. The Championship Course at Incline Village enjoys views of Lake Tahoe and the majestic Sierra Nevada Mountains. Originally designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr. in 1964, the course was completely remodeled by Kyle Phillips and reopened in the fall of 2004.
Kyle Phillips Golf Course Design is a full service international golf course design firm located in Granite Bay, California. Established by Kyle in 1997, the company provides world-class golf course design, golf course construction and construction bid documents, golf course feasibility studies, field design, construction shaping specialist services, as well as renovation and historical restoration.
The Kyle Phillips design philosophy stems from the belief that golf courses should have their own character and personality derived from the site’s existing natural features, as well as its location and history. Where natural golf features do not exist, Kyle Phillips Golf Course Design has shown an unparalleled ability to create natural appearing landforms for traditional first-class golf experiences.
With a deep knowledge and distinctive expertise for links style layouts, Phillips has been awarded a number of high profile designs, including Kingsbarns Golf Links near St. Andrews, Scotland. Kingsbarns, a magnificent seaside links course opened in 2000 and by 2001 had already launched into the Top 50 courses in the world ranking by GOLF Magazine. It also received Golf Digest’s Best New International Course listing and has served as host of the Dunhill Links Championship since 2001.
Other notable designs include The Grove, a 300 acre (125 hectare) country estate and prestigious 5-star hotel & spa near London, which hosted the top 50 players in the world for the 2006 American Express World Golf Championship, and the ultra‐exclusive Dundonald-Loch Lomond Golf Club, a private club on the west coast of Scotland. Phillips created Dundonald in a traditional links style, much like its famous Ayrshire neighbors including Turnberry, Prestwick and Troon.
In addition to the numerous award winning new course designs, Kyle Phillips Golf Course Design has also been entrusted with the remodeling work of several high profile and historically significant courses, including all of the design work at The Robert Trent Jones Golf Club, Virginia, in preparation for the 2000 and 2005 President’s Cup competitions. In 2006, Kyle Phillips was awarded the design for the complete remodeling of The California Golf Club of San Francisco, which included a creative combination of redesign and detailed historic restoration of the original Vernon Macan and Alister Mackenzie architecture. The result was a startling transformation that earned the club a spot on Golfweek’s list of Top 100 Classic Courses, within the first year of re‐opening.
Current remodeling clients include Europe’s #1 and #2 ranked courses, Valderamma (host of the Volvo Masters) in Spain and Morfortaine, near Paris, which is regarded as France’s premiere golf club. In Holland, Harry Colt’s Hilversum has recently completed Phase 1 of a Kyle Phillips Master Plan and the club has been awarded the Dutch Open Championship for 2010.
2010 marks the opening of several new Kyle Phillips designs. These include: The Lakes Course at the PGA of Sweden National Golf Resort (Phillips’ Links Course opened in 2009); 45-holes at the Verdura Golf & Spa Resort in Sicily; the Al Maaden Golf Resort in Marrakech, Morocco; and Yas Links in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.