Our approach to golf course design is simple: to allow the flow of the land on any site to determine the course routing as naturally as possible, and then to use all available ground elements - ridges, swales, spurs and trees to create golf holes with great individuality, visual beauty, and strategic flexibility.

"To touch the land gently", and construct elements as broadly as possible, so that the finished terrain looks as though it was always there in nature, waiting to be mown; to bring players to tees in such a way that the next golf hole is suddenly exposed as a 'vision splendid' for them, with everything laid out beautifully before them; and to have golfers of all skill and strength levels, having a drink in the clubhouse after their game, wanting to come back again and again, because the golf was fun, fascinating, rewarding and satisfying.

Very often with existing golf courses, our experience allows us to 'see' a 'magic string-pulling' element in the terrain conditions which frees up the whole course planning, and offers opportunities for strategic redevelopment programs. Whilst this is sometimes geared to solving safety problems, many instances can be cited where the true visual and strategic values in the landforms have been 'discovered' by the ACA analyses.