Q &A
GOLF COURSE ARCHITECT Robert Trent Jones, Jr. has designed more than 300 courses in 50 countries on six continents – on Earth, only Antarctica lacks an RTJ II layout. And at 85, Jones is still traversing the globe with projects in Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Grenada, Thailand, Vietnam, Egypt, England, Italy and across the US. Jones’s living artwork reveals a man who creates on many levels, and who sees his pursuit of golf design as a metaphysical journey. Like the best artists and writers, he employs subtext and symbolism, imagery and illusion, as well as a range of other techniques from the verbal and visual arts to express aspects of philosophy, drama and aesthetics. And his courses tell stories. Jones recently shared his own stories with us – about…
