Bechtol Golf Design is a full-service golf course design firm created to take
advantage of the unique experience and background of its principals. A wide
variety of experience and perspective makes Bechtol Golf Design the architect
of choice for both the golf course and its owner.
This broad range of experience allows Bechtol Golf Design to incorporate all the goals of the entire project, including an understanding of the development and operational issues needed to produce a great golf course that truly blends with the entire development, site and environment.
It is this unique combination that allows the Bechtol Golf Design to truly integrate the golf course with the land plan to enhance the entire project. Not only does Bechtol Golf Design rely on the outstanding talents of its principals, but its close association with Bechtol’s land planning and landscape architecture firm, Planned Environments, Inc., allows the drawing on the varied skills of that staff as well.
This allows Bechtol Golf Design to bring in landscape architects, land planners and environmental specialists to assist and advise as necessary. It also allows us to expand the staff available to meet all deadlines in a timely fashion.
Jim Bechtol
In July 2007, noted community designer and land planner Jim Bechtol rejoined
the Bechtol Golf Design team after a 10-year hiatus in which he spent time
as a professional golfer on the Texas-based Lone Star Tour and established
his own company as a planner and designer in the Leander, Texas area. Jim Bechtol
spent five years working for the City of Leander, eventually taking the position
as that burgeoning municipality's Director of Planning and Community Development,
a role in which he was responsible for the city's parks, planning and street
department - a huge task in a city that has quadrupled in size in the past
since 1998.
Previously, Jim Bechtol was Leander's director of parks and recreation, where he helped solidify the status of Crystal Falls Golf Course as one of the top municipal tracks in the state and marshal the improvements of one of the city's parks and the construction of two others. Jim Bechtol worked with his brother Roy Bechtol in the latter's Planned Environments, Inc., for 14 years before striking out on his own. "Jimbo is at the top of the game as far as land planning goes, and - with his knowledge of design and community development - he is a key part of our fine staff here at Bechtol Golf Design and Planned Environments," Roy Bechtol said. "I have always learned a lot from my brother, and it is great to have him as a constant reference and source of information and expertise." Jim Bechtol is responsible for land and community planning, golf course routing and course detailing and construction drawings. He works hand in hand with Roy Bechtol and Jim Vater, Planned Environment's and Bechtol Golf Design's longtime vice president of planning, design and development.
"Building golf courses is something that I have always wanted to do, and now - with the place we are at with Bechtol Golf Design - we have a real opportunity to fashion some special tracks," Jim Bechtol said. Jim Bechtol has established Bechtol Golf Design's office in Leander and through that effort has established a larger presence in the communities north and west of its Austin home base.
Earns ranking as #7 in the nation as one of the top new golf courses by Golf Digest Magazine.
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