Brian Silva

Brian Silva has been designing new golf courses and reconfiguring existing ones for more than 25 years. Brian became enamored with classic course design at a young age and developed the belief that over time, many course designers, especially in America, had lost touch with the things that constitute a truly great golf course. He felt, in short, that they were either too difficult or just uninspired and boring.

Brian was introduced to the art of course design when he was just a boy. For years, he went to work with his father, John Silva, who worked with prominent course designers for decades, including course architecture scion Geoffrey Cornish. Impressed by the young man, Cornish advised him to pursue a career in course design.

Silva's original work continues to earn wide praise for its incorporation of classic design features in a modern context at celebrated courses including Black Creek, Black Rock, Cape Cod National, Old Marsh, Red Tail, Renaissance, and Waverly Oaks.

Silva has also conducted celebrated renovations at dozens of America's most revered courses, carefully restoring the vintage elements of Donald Ross designs (Seminole, Biltmore Forest, Augusta CC), C.B. Macdonald/Seth Raynor designs (Charleston, St. Louis), and two original A.W. Tillinghast courses (Alpine, Baltimore Five Farms). He is considered one of America's foremost experts on the work of these great designers from golf's Golden Age of Architecture.

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