翻译：汪娅茜

Bill Coore: Crenshaw's Partner at the Top of His Game

比尔·库尔：克伦肖的合伙人在他的事业巅峰

By Derek Duncan,  德瑞克·顿肯

Contributor 投稿人

ATLANTA, GA -- Among golf course cognoscenti no name elicits such reverent reaction as that of Coore & Crenshaw.

亚特兰大，乔治亚州--- 在众多高尔夫球场行家中，没有人可以使他人投来如提到库尔和克伦肖那样崇敬的目光。

Creating such masterpieces as Sand Hills and Cuscowilla will earn you that respect.

如能创造Sand Hills （球场网址：http://www.sandhillsgolfshop.com/index.html）和 Cuscowilla （球场网址：http://www.cuscowilla.com/） 那样的球场便会让你得到那样的尊敬。

Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw have been partners in golf course architecture since 1986. In their 16 years together the pair has produced less than 15 original golf courses, but the modest output is not from lack of opportunity; Coore & Crenshaw are among the most sought after architects in the field.

比尔·库尔和本·克伦肖自1986年以来就成为高尔夫球场建造设计的伙伴。在他们16年的合作中只创造了不到15个高尔夫球场，但是作品不多并不是因为缺乏机会； 相反，他们却是业界最受追捧的建造设计师。

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The secret of their success can be partially summarized thus: strict selection and restraint. Going largely against the industry trend, the team emphasizes quality over quantity, carefully choosing properties that are ideally suited to natural golf holes and typically working on only two projects at a time to maximized their concentration.

他们成功的秘密可以这样部分总结为：严格的选择和限制。这在很大程度上违背了行业的主流趋势，该小组强调的是质量而不是数量；他们精心选择那些适合打造自然高尔夫球洞的地域，为了集中精神和注意力，通常在同一时间只跟进两个项目。

They remain adamant about letting the land dictate the lay of the course and deliberately avoid moving earth except where necessary. As a result of both their scrutiny and the work of their close-knit team of shapers and builders that follow them to virtually every job, Coore & Crenshaw are able to build what are widely recognized as some of the most natural and instantly classic golf courses of the last 70 years.

他们保持着坚定的信念让原始土地来决定球场的设计布置和有意避免移动土层，除非有必要。他们的审查和由塑形人员和建造人员组成的紧密团队跟随他们至每个工作，使得库尔和克伦肖可以建造出一些可以被广泛认可的近70年来最为自然和经典的高尔夫球场中的球场。

While their working methods are certainly a major reason their courses are so revered, it is the individual characters of this team that truly sets them apart. The ability to walk a property and locate the most strategic and naturally gifted holes is a talent Coore & Crenshaw have in abundance. To suppress their egos and let the land express the golf is a virtue equally rare.

他们的工作方法是他们的球场如此受尊敬的主要原因，然而这支团队的独特个性才是他们的真正卓尔不凡的原因。徒步一个地域和放置最具策略性和赋予自然的球洞是库尔和克伦肖的无限才能。超越自我，让土地去表达高尔夫是个非常少见的优质品质。

Bill Coore graduated from Wake Forest University in 1968 and began working for Pete Dye. In 1982 he opened his own firm in Texas where he met Ben Crenshaw. The two realized they shared the same affinity for classic golf courses and the Golden Age architects, and soon they joined forces, beginning their careers together remodeling and renovating existing golf clubs primarily in Texas.

比尔·库尔自1968年从美国维克森林大学毕业后开始为皮特·戴工作。1982年，他在德克萨斯州开了自己的工作室，在那儿他遇到了本·克伦肖。两人意识到他们对经典球场和黄金时代的建造设计师有着一致的青睐，很快他们便一起合作，开始他们共同改造和革新德州现存的高尔夫球场的事业。

Bill Coore spoke with Senior Writer Derek Duncan by phone on his way to their newest course, Friar’s Head, on Long Island.

比尔·库尔在通往他们在长岛的最新的高尔夫球场--- Friar’s Head，与资深作者德瑞克·顿肯通过电话参与了访谈。

Duncan: You’re known for carefully selecting sites that are well suited for golf. Describe the process of selection and how you first approach a project.

顿肯：你们以精心挑选那些非常适和打高尔夫的地点而闻名。请介绍一下挑选的过程和您一开始是如何接手项目的。

Coore: We try to study a piece of property and find situations that feel like golf to us in a fairly natural sense, and then to create as much variety in there as possible utilizing whatever the site gives you. In the case of Cuscowilla (it was) contours, hills to hit over, hills to hit alongside so you could have side-slopes, valleys, uphill holes, downhill holes, and wind angles to work with. As we got a routing out there that we felt would work from a sequence and landform standpoint, then we began to think about how to make the holes play differently in an interesting fashion in regard to greens complexes – we tend to (start) with greens and work backwards – then leading into bunkering that works backwards to the tee. And within all that framework try to create as many options as possible for the ways to play the hole.

库尔：我们试着去研究一点地域（特征），在相对自然的景致中找到对我们来说感觉像高尔夫球场的区域，然后利用区域做提供的基础上尽可能在那边多创造一些多样性。在cuscowilla球场这个例子中，它就曾是与（地域）轮廓相一致的，连绵的山脉，山沿着球场边缘，所以你会有边坡，山谷，上坡球洞，下坡球洞，还有风向等情况去处理。当我们得到那些我们觉得能从连续性和地貌的观点上有所用的路线，然后我们便开始想该如何从果岭复杂程度的兴趣潮流上使得球洞变得困难---我们趋向于从果岭着手然后往回做---然后导向沙坑，然后往回（设计）发球台。通过这些框架，尽力去为击打球洞创造足够多的选择性。

For a period of 15 or 20 years we saw so many golf courses that just dictated that there was only one way you could play them. We try to (create) situations that afford you two or three or more ways that you can play the hole based on your ability.

在15或20年间，我们见过许多的高尔夫球场只有一种方式可以击打。我们尽力去创造能基于您的水准提供给您2种、3种或是更多种方法都可以击打完球洞的环境。

Duncan: It’s been said that at the Sand Hills there were over 100 possible golf holes waiting in there.

顿肯：传说在Sand Hills球场有大于100种可能的高尔夫球洞供人击打。

Coore: Because you could get lost so easily out in the dunes of the Sand Hills we literally did have over 130 holes flagged, with little pin flags out in the field.

库尔：因为我们记录sand hills球场中确实有超过130洞飘着带着小旗杆的旗帜，你很容易就在山丘中迷路。

Duncan: With so many potential holes it must have been a difficult process of elimination. If you were to go back to the Sand Hills today would you invariably build the same golf course?

顿肯：有着那么多可能的球洞，一定有个艰难的筛选过程吧。如果让您在今天回到Sand Hills， 您会一成不变得建立一个（与现在）一模一样的高尔夫球场么？

Coore: One of our biggest concerns at the Sand Hills [was] we knew we had an extraordinary property that, quite candidly, if you did not create on of the world’s truly outstanding golf courses you had failed. There was a lot of concern on our part, pressure if you will, based on the potential of that property.

库尔：我们曾经最在意Sand Hills球场的其中一个问题就是，我们知道我们拥有一个不同寻常的地域，坦白的说，如果你不能以此创造一个无与伦比的高尔夫球场，那么就算失败。基于那个地域的潜力，我们有很多在意，抑或你愿意说是感觉有压力的情况。