Andy Staples, ASGCA Associate
Andy Staples is the President of Golf Resource Group and has over 16 years of experience designing, building and managing golf courses, covering over 125 projects throughout the world. Trained as a Landscape Architect, Mr. Staples is an industry leader in sustainable practices for golf course development including energy and water efficiency programs.
His work includes the design of the nationally acclaimed Golf Club at Sand Hollow Resort (named the #1 course in the State of Utah by Golf Week), development of the country’s first energy efficiency program designed specifically for the golf course developments and numerous Golf Course Master Planning projects including the Fayetteville Country Club in Fayetteville, Arkansas, an original 1927 Perry Maxwell design. His energy and water consulting has taken him to well over 140 golf course developments including Desert Mountain Golf Club in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Andy has a long history of involvement with top-quality, award winning national and international golf course developments. He began his career in golf with Wadsworth Golf Construction Company, a world-renowned golf course builder, working on courses throughout the Midwest. His design experiences have brought him around the globe to Canada, Japan, China, Europe, and throughout the U.S. Andy has worked with some of the world's most noted golf course designers such as Robert Muir Graves, Damian Pascuzzo, John Fought, Brian Curley and Lee Schmidt. His projects have played host to the PGA Tour (La Quinta Country Club, CA), the LPGA (Blackhawk Country Club, CA) and have won awards from Golf Digest, GolfWeek and Golf Magazine.
Andy holds a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville and has an extended degree from Denmark's International Studies Program in Copenhagen, focusing his studies on urban planning and design. He was recently inducted into the American Society of Golf Course Architects (ASGCA) as an associate member, the most prestigious governing body in his profession. He has also been a member of GCSAA since 1999 and a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) since 2000. Andy continues to lecture nationally on the subject sustainable golf design and management. His list of lecture locations includes the Golf Industry Show, local chapters of the GCSAA and the Harvard Graduate School of Design in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Your Golf Course Efficiency Program of 2006-08 greatly assisted my efforts to educate golf course managers on the importance of implementing efficient upgrades into their facilities. Your knowledge of the golf industry was invaluable to getting the courses to act and helped them to improve their bottom line. Given the economic climate, the kW/kWh savings your program achieved is commendable.
Chris Morris, Southern California Edison Account Manager
California Investor Owned Utility Company