American Society of Golf Course Architects welcomes 3 new members

The American Society of Golf Course Architects (ASGCA) welcomed three new members to its ranks: Gary Browning, Kipp Schulties and Joel Weiman.

Gary Browning (Photo courtesy of ASGCA)

Browning is the founding principal of Browning Design, a landscape architectural and golf design firm. Browning’s 30-plus years of experience have included award winning “minimalist” designs in the Western Canadian Rocky Mountains, including a full restoration of the 36-hole, famed Robert Trent Jones Sr’s Kananaskis Country Golf Course.

Kipp Schulties (Photo courtesy of ASGCA)

Schulties began his design career with the Couples/Bates Golf Design firm after earning his civil engineering degree from Purdue University. A year after finishing an MBA in Finance at University of Miami (Florida), he opened his own firm, Kipp Schulties Golf Design. Along with design, Schulties can be responsible for site analysis, production and analysis of feasibility studies, financial analysis contract negotiation and administration and overall project management.

Joel Weiman (Photo courtesy of ASGCA)

Weiman is a landscape architecture graduate of Cornell University and has been senior designer with McDonald Design Group since 1998, building a team of design professionals who focus their efforts along the east coast of the United States. Weiman provides a design/build approach to golf course design and construction that is inspired, responsive, thorough and cost effective.

Candidates for ASGCA membership complete a rigorous, multiphase application process that includes peer review of completed projects, discussions with project owners and a personal interview to assess the candidate’s professional capabilities.