Sanford Golf Design awarded for work on Trump Golf Links at Ferry Point

The Florida Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (FLASLA) awarded David Ferris, RLA, and Sanford Golf Design the Award of Excellence for their work at Trump Golf Links at Ferry Point, Bronx, N.Y.

The Award of Excellence was given to Sanford Golf Design and Ferris for their reclamation and transformation of New York City’s longtime derelict site into a unique Irish links inspired public golf course that utilizes the Whitestone Bridge, the East River and the Manhattan skyline as its backdrop, while seamlessly integrating innovative details to address methane gas venting, settlement, site monitoring, neighboring storm drainage and water conservation.

The Ferry Point Park landfill had been an eyesore and dumping ground since the 1940s. The new 18-hole tournament-quality golf course is scheduled to open to the public next year. The design of the golf course at Ferry Point was a collaborative effort with Jack Nicklaus.

Ferris has been a senior design associate at Sanford Golf Design for 17 years and has worked on projects in Florida, Puerto Rico, Vietnam, Japan, the Canary Islands and Egypt.

“The FLASLA Design Awards program honors projects that blend environmental and artistic principles, emphasizing beauty, function and the environment. We recognize projects that demonstrate an inspired use of landscape architectural practices in an imaginative combination that adds to the body of the Landscape Architecture profession by bestowing it the Award of Excellence,” says Jeff Brophy, FLASLA president.

At this year’s FLASLA Annual Conference in Key Largo, Fla., the project also received the 2014 Environmental Sustainability Award, which is given to only one project that exhibits sound sustainable practice.

“They had over 55 projects from around the world submitted that were worthy of receiving this award, ranging from small community service projects to 25,000-acre planning and analysis projects. To win this year’s prestigious Environmental Sustainability Award from the Chapter is another huge honor,” Ferris says.