About Ross Golf Design
Ross Golf Design is a full-service golf course design company established by golf course architect Brian Ross in 2019. With offices in Austin, Texas and Roanoke, Virginia, we specialize in providing our clients with complete golf course architecture, shaping, and construction management services. Rooted in the design philosophies of golf’s Golden Age, we strive to create fun, strategic golf courses that are built in harmony with their natural surroundings, allowing golfers to have the most enjoyable and authentic experience possible within that particular landscape.
At Ross Golf Design, we are as comfortable with a shovel in our hands or behind the blade of a bulldozer as we are making a presentation to a membership or at a desk working on our next design. Our passion for golf drives us to provide this hands-on experience to our clients. We believe that the best products are conceptualized on the drawing board but must be finalized in the field. Golf is played on the ground, after all. There are no formulas or sets of rules capable of creating a good golf experience. Instead, it takes a team of detail-oriented artisans to formulate a clear plan of action and then take that plan into the field to create something spectacular from it. At Ross Golf Design, that is what we do.
About Brian Ross
Brian Ross has been fascinated with the game of golf and its varied playing fields since he first picked up a golf club at the age of 12. Growing up on his family’s farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia helped Brian to develop an early love for the outdoors. It is no surprise, then, that golf would be such an attractive pursuit to his teenage mind. Almost immediately after taking up the game he began to see potential golf holes everywhere: along the country roads of southwest Virginia, in the dunes of North Carolina’s Outer Banks where his family vacationed, and even in his own backyard where he built a primitive six-hole short course when he was 15. Many of his middle and high school notebooks were littered with drawings of these yet-to-be-realized holes.
Brian attended Virginia Tech where he graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Landscape Architecture. He has spent the past two decades playing, studying, and working on as many of the game’s greatest courses as possible as he continues to refine his craft and become the best golf course architect he can be. Following stints as a Design Associate for architects in Austin, Texas and Pinehurst, North Carolina, he formed Ross Golf Design in 2019 with the promise to never take on more work than he can personally oversee and to operate his company smartly and efficiently, placing an emphasis on providing unparalleled service and attention to detail for his clients during both the design and construction phases.
