Jay Blasi is a golf course architect, whose prominent West Coast work includes Chambers Bay, host of the 2015 U.S. Open, where he was a key figure in Robert Trent Jones Jr.’s design team. Jay also recently completed a complete renovation of Santa Ana Country Club in Irvine, CA, and is now consulting with the San Francisco…
Discussing golf course design and the life of Pete Dye with Bill and Jay
Jay talks with Derek about the game’s golf cart conundrum, getting the PGA TOUR and USGA to truly contribute to public golf, the plan for Sharp Park and how it can once again become one of the country’s great municipal courses, winning the Santa Ana job as a last minute interviewee, the awful decor at…
Architects Jay Blasi and Brett Hochstein join the pod to discuss the dark ages of golf course architecture and what the future holds for those courses.Listen and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes and Stitcher. If you enjoy please rate and review the podcast it helps us out greatly!
I am joined with golf course architect Jay Blasi. Jay and I discuss the future of golf course design, technology, Sharp Park, the reaction to Chambers Bay and much more.Listen and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes and Stitcher.
Geoff Shackelford, Mike Clayton and Rod Morri are joined by golf course architect Jay Blasi, the man largely responsible for the design of US Open host course Chambers Bay
When the U.S. Open arrives at Chambers Bay later this month, it will be a crowning moment in the career of Robert Trent Jones Jr. The 75-year old, having designed almost 300 courses around the world, will become the first living architect in decades to witness the National Championship play out over one of his creations. (The…
by Jay Blasi There will be a number of “firsts” at the 2015 U.S. Open – first time held in the Pacific Northwest, first U.S. Open course played on all fescue turf, first new design since the 1970s. And for the players, it will be the first time at a U.S. Open where they will…
Robert Trent Jones II is the architect of record at Chambers Bay, the 2015 U.S. Open host course in University Place, Wash., near Seattle. But like most big-name designers, he has a whole team that works for him, including Jay Blasi, now 36, who served as the project architect. Blasi, a Wisconsin landscape architecture graduate, was involved…
By Jay BlasiWed 03 Jun, 2015 Chambers Bay will mark a number of firsts for the US Open; first US Open course in the Pacific Northwest, first US Open course played on all fescue turf, first modern design to host the championship since Hazeltine National in the 1970s. But beyond championships, what’s interesting about Chambers…