-----访美国高尔夫球场设计师Mike DeVries

采访：杨石文  翻译：李书英、张旭

今年4月在北京参加高尔夫博览会的时候，有幸认识到了来自美国的球场设计师迈克.德里弗斯Mike DeVries，并成为了朋友，所以有幸采访到他，听听他是如何在实践中去探索高尔夫球场的设计。

1987年毕业于Lake Forest College, DeVries 跟着设计大师 Tom Doak 当学徒，1992年得到密西根大学景观设计硕士。之后跟随设计大师汤姆 法西欧（Tom Fazio）十五年，设计并建造了五个新球场，改造了若干老球场。Mike DeVries 从小就跟随爷爷打高尔夫，他对古典的设计大师充满敬意，他不断地研究古典大师如 Alister MacKenzie 和 Perry Maxwell 的作品，从中体会到球场设计的精髓，他将这些精髓应用到自己的设计中。

Mike DeVries 的信念是设计师本人必须全过程地参与每一个球场的设计与建造，包括果岭和沙坑的特色造型。由于参与了球场建设的全过程，高尔夫球场设计师 MikDeVries能够不断研究场地的特点，发现更好地利用地形的机会，从而不断的改进原始设计使球场更完美。这种不断改进的方法，最终建造了经受得住时间考验的高质量球场。

1.The public perception of golf courses is overwhelmingly that they are bad for the environment in China. Is there the same view in American? And what’s your opinion?

在中国高尔夫球场，常常被人误认为是“绿色的沙漠”，对生态环境是一种破坏。对这种说法，美国是否也有同样的声音？你自己是怎么看的？

Golf is often seen as a “green oasis,” especially when they are in a city and surrounded by streets, buildings, and dense development.  When properly managed, golf will actually preserve and protect the ecology of a landscape.  To do so, a golf course must respond to what a site provides and build a course that is in harmony with the land – that is one of my main design philosophies.

高尔夫经常被看作是沙漠中的绿洲，特别是处在高楼林立的城市中的那些球场。管理得当的球场实际上可以起到维护和保护景观生态的作用。要做到这些，必须是一个尊重场地的自然条件，与周遭环境自然融合的球场----这也是我的设计理念之一。

2.         I know you ever worked together with many famous golf course architects and learned from them. Could you share the time with us? Describe and explain their influences on you? And how did you get along with them?

你曾跟随很多世界知名的高尔夫球场设计师学习过，你能够跟大家分享一下这段时光吗？

The great golf architects of the early 1900’s (MacKenzie, Ross, MacDonald, Raynor, Tillinghast, Thomas, Flynn, Langford, etc.) had the ability to move earth, but usually only small quantities, so instead of designing a golf course and making the land fit their design, they allowed the unique qualities of the land to help bring about an individual style to the golf course.  I think this is very important to creating unique golf courses that are special on their own, instead of always creating the same golf course on different sites.  Golf is unique in that respect – its field of play is always different, not like tennis or basketball or football, where the field is always the same exact size and shape.

19世纪早期很多伟大的球场设计师，比如MacKenzie, Ross, MacDonald, Raynor, Tillinghast, Thomas, Flynn, Langford, 等等，设计球场时也会有土方调运，但这个量都很小，他们都在试图用最小的土方量来完成一个风格迥异的球场，而不是设计一个球场就要削足适履地让这块地来适合他们的设计。从这个意义上来讲，每一个高尔夫球场都是独一无二，击球的场地永远是不一样，它不像网球、篮球或足球的场地永远都是一样的大小和形状。