Martin Ebert

For a young Martin Ebert golf at university was mixed with studying engineering, firstly to gain a degree but this was followed by a postgraduate year with the main advantage being another year of golf. His engineering discipline proved to be extremely useful in supporting the drawing skills and technical abilities required of a golf course architect.

A career in golf became Ebert's goal following a year-long organization of the Cambridge University Golf Club's tour to the United States in 1989. The tour reinforced his views of how golf courses should be eased into the landscape. This appreciation had been forged from playing many of the great seaside links and inland courses of the UK with the Cambridge team.

In 1990 Donald Steel offered Martin a welcome opportunity to assist him with the design of courses around the world, which led to ongoing work in 18 countries. Subsequently, Martin formed a partnership with Tom Mackenzie, and their firm, Mackenzie and Ebert, has since built something of a reputation as a master of links design.

The firm has worked on seven courses on the Open rota including St George's, Troon, Hoylake, Lytham, Carnoustie, and Turnberry. It was whilst working at Turnberry that Donald Trump labeled Ebert, "the most stubborn man I've ever met."

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