Bechtol Golf Design

The Company


Bechtol Golf Design was founded in 1998 as an independent golf course architecture and design practice. The firm combines the complementary talents of its principal, Roy Bechtol, with a large and knowledgeable support staff. Unique among golf course design firms, Bechtol Golf Design has access to expertise extending across the entire land planning, environmental, landscape architecture and development process.

Our offices are on the shores of beautiful Lake Austin, deep in the heart of Austin's renowned Hill Country and shares space with Planned Environments, Inc., an associated company specializing in land planning and landscape architecture. During our first nine years, Bechtol Golf Design has designed, built or collaborated in the building of more than 20 top-ranked golf courses. And the future looks even brighter and more productive, with at least 50 courses under consideration at all times.

Our trademark continues to be course design that rewards a broad range of play levels and integrates seamlessly into the community and the environment. As simple as it seems, Bechtol Golf Design fashions and designs golf courses that are beautiful and fun to play.

OUR APPROACH
There are a wide variety of ways to approach the design of a golf course. Bechtol Golf Design has chosen to spend a great deal of time in the planning and preparation of the various construction documents necessary to make a golf course project a reality.

This approach is based on the principle that every minute spent in planning saves seven minutes in execution.

A thorough planning of the strategy of each hole by Bechtol Golf includes the relationship between the site's features, the contours of each hole, the routing of the course and the execution of working drawings. Those aspects work together to allow the completion of the hole with the minimum of changes by the contractor with the resulting cost savings to the owner.

Our highly graphic approach allows owners to better visualize what the final product will look like at each stage of the project's process and how each will relate to the rest of the project.