翻译：张旭
Tom Doak is the president of Renaissance Golf Design in Traverse City, Michigan. Regarded as the leading golf course critic, Tom Doak is enjoying his finest year as a designer, with three courses opening in the middle of this year. Like his prior courses, each one is highly individualistic. His work is notable for the routing of the holes over the land and for interesting (!) green complexes. Tom spends a lot of time on site and his courses are worth seeking to play.
汤姆多克是密歇根州特拉佛斯城复兴高尔夫设计公司的主席。作为一名卓越的高尔夫球场评论家，他正在享受着作为设计师的最好一年，因为今年他有三个球场开业了。正如他之前的球场，每一个球场都有着极度的个人特色。他的作品是由他的球场规划和有趣的果岭区而著称的。汤姆在现场花费了大量的时间精力，他的球场都值得去打。
1.What three architects’ (past or present) body of work do you admire the most?
你最敬佩那几个球场设计师的作品 ？
a) Alister Mackenzie – for never giving in to convention
阿里斯特 麦肯齐 – 从未给予的准则
b) Pete Dye- for variety of his work 1965-1985 (not lately!)
皮特 戴伊 – 他在1965年到1985年多样的作品（而非最近的作品）
c) Bill Coore – for building his courses to the needs of the client, rather than for top-100 polls
比尔 库 – 他自己的球场都是为客户的需求而做，而不是为了百佳的的头衔而去。
2. Is there a feature from the Golden Age of architecture that you think is missing from course design today?
你觉得我们今天的球场设计缺乏球场设计黄金时代的那一个特色？
What’s missing most from modern golf course design is unpredictability. In the old days, when you had a severe feature within the property, how it was used determined the character of the design. Nowadays, most architects either erase it with a bulldozer, or route the cart paths around it.
现代球场设计中最缺乏的就是不可预测性。先前，当你在场地里面遇到了一处很强烈的特色，是想着怎么来利用这个成为设计中的一个亮点。今天，多数设计师不是用推土机干掉它，就是让球车道绕过它。
3. If time or expense weren’t considerations, which five courses would you most like to see for the first time?
如果时间和费用不是问题，你最想看那五家球场？
a) Banff
b) Jasper Park
c) Cabo del Sol
d) El Saler
e) Royal Zoute
4.What is the range in width of the fairways you have built? Of green sizes?
你做的球场的球道宽度在什么范围，果岭的大小又如何？
I think Stonewall has the narrowest fairways of anything we’ve built -30 to 38 yards – and it certainly has the smallest greens (maybe 5000 square feet average, some down to 3500). The Heathland Course at The Legends has the largest greens (probably 8000 square feet average, and the only three I’ve ever built over 10,000). We’ve built a lot of wide fairways – The Legends might be the widest, but Harbour View and Apache Stronghold are right up there.
我想石墙高尔夫球场的球道是我们这么多作品中最窄的，只有30-38码宽；当然其果岭也是比较小的（平均大概只有465平方米，最小的只有325平米）。Legend俱乐部中的Heathland球场有着最大的果岭（平均大概有743平米，我只做过三个超过929平米的果岭）。我们做过很多宽的球道 – Legend俱乐部的球道是最宽的，Habour view 和Apache球场也基本差不多。
The small fourth green at Stonewall, wth the architect in the foreground.
石墙高尔夫的4号小果岭，设计师在右下角。
5.If a developer approached you and said his ideal course would be a 6,300 yard, par 69 course, would you think?
如果一个开发商找你说他想做一个6300码，69杆的球场，你会怎样觉得？
a) He must be related to Marion Hollins
那他一定和Marion Hollins有关
b) Finally, a guy who knows what golf is all about
最后，他是一个了解高尔夫方方面面的家伙
c) I hope I build a course as good as Swinley Forest
我希望我能做一个和Swinley Forest一样好的球场
d) Wonder if I can keep my fee the same?
希望我可以拿到同样的设计费
e) All the above
以上几点
E) all of the above. I’d also be hoping he had good undulating property, so that we could find enough short par fours to justify staying that short.
除了以上几点之外，我希望他有一块很不错的地，以便我们可以找到足够的短四杆洞来支撑这个短球场。
注：Marion Hollins被誉为是20世纪初的女骑士，简要资料可参考http://www.pasatiempo.com/web/history_hollins.php
6.What is the least amount of dirt you have had to move? Which course?
你在那个球场中动的土方量最小？
A tough one. At High Pointe, Wilderness Valley, Beachtree, and Apache Stronghold, the only ‘cut’ was to build an irrigation lake: 25,000 to 50,000 cubic yards. Shaping is harder to quantify, but High Pointe and Apache probably have the least amount of reshaping in the fairways and greens.
这个问题比较难。在High Pointe, Wilderness Valley, Beachtree, 和 Apache Stronghold这四个球场中，唯一挖方仅仅是用于挖喷灌湖 – 25000到50000立方码。造型就很难计算了，但是在High Pointe和Apache对球道和果岭的重新造型应该是最小的。
7.How do you think this period in course architecture will be viewed in fifty years time?
50年之后，你怎么来看待现阶段的球场设计？
Fifty years from now, we’ll look back on this period of golf architecture as a manic free for all, with some excellent work, some horrible atrocities, and a lot of quality-built high end projects which never paid off. Hopefully, it won’t be the last hurrah -ten years ago, I remember saying that I hoped my career wouldn’t consist of trying to fix Tour pros’ design mistakes.
50年之后，当我们在回国头来看目前这个时期的球场设计，你会发现所有的人都是那么狂热，有些非常出色的作品，也有一些令人恐惧的暴行，同时也有一些高质量、高水准的项目永远也还不清债务。但愿，这个不要这么持续下去，哈哈。我记得我十年前说过，我将来的职业生涯里面不要老是去修理那些锦标赛球手的设计错误。
8. What is your favourite short par 3, 4, and 5 that you have designed?
你最喜欢你设计的哪个三个洞、四杆洞和五杆洞？
a) par three: 8th at Quail Crossing
三杆洞：Quail Crossing的八号
b) par four: (drivable) 6th at Apache Stronghold (regular) 13th at Wilderness Valley
四杆洞：（长四杆）- Apache Stronghold的六号；（普通的四杆洞） - Wilderness Valley的十三号
c) par five: (reachable) 10th at Wilderness Valley (under 520) either 6th at High Pointe or 7th at The Legends
五杆洞: （长五杆）Wilderness Valley的十号；（短五杆）High Pointe的六号或是The Legends的7号
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